XRP’s 100 Billion Supply Cap Is Safe After RippleX Fixes a Critical XRPL Flaw

RippleX, Ripple’s engineering and software development team, has patched a critical vulnerability in the XRP Ledger (XRPL). Notably, the flaw could have let attackers create about 18.45 trillion XRP in a single transaction, potentially breaching the network’s original 100 billion token supply cap. Researchers from US-based cybersecurity startup Veria Labs discovered the flaw using an artificial intelligence-powered security agent, which developed a working exploit in a local test environment. The vulnerability had remained undetected in the XRPL’s payment-processing code since 2015.