XRP Infinite Mint Bug: An AI Found the Flaw Nobody Saw for a Decade

An AI agent just found a way to print XRP out of thin air. Luckily, it belonged to the good guys. The XRP infinite mint bug was a flaw in the XRP Ledger’s payment engine. It let an attacker create about 18.4 trillion XRP in a single transaction. Security firm Veria Labs reported it on September 22, 2026. Three days later, the fix was live, and nobody had exploited it. So is your XRP safe? Yes. Below, I explain what happened in plain English. What Is the XRP Infinite Mint Bug?