This Is How Serious the XRP Bug Actually Was

The XRP Ledger carried a critical vulnerability for over a decade before anyone caught it. Crypto Sensei (@Crypt0Senseii) laid out exactly how serious the XRP bug was and what it could have meant for one of the world’s largest crypto networks. Details of the Exploit The bug has been inside the XRP Ledger’s payment engine since 2015. An attacker who found it could have manufactured new XRP tokens out of nothing and spent them like any legitimate coin. RippleX tested the attack path themselves and confirmed it worked. What makes the flaw particularly striking is the low cost of execution.