On October 10, XRP Ledger developers released an emergency software update to address a critical vulnerability that had existed for a decade. This bug could have potentially allowed the creation of billions of dollars in XRP without actual funding. The patch was issued after researchers demonstrated how unfunded payment transactions could generate spendable tokens. This update secures the network's integrity by preventing the generation of XRP from nothing.
Developers patched a decade-old vulnerability in the XRP Ledger that theoretically allowed the creation of billions of dollars in unfunded XRP tokens.
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