A bug that had existed for ten years on the XRP Ledger could have allowed minting XRP from thin air, threatening the total supply of nearly 100 billion tokens. Ripple deployed an emergency fix to address this critical flaw. The patch was applied without going through the usual validator vote to resolve the issue quickly. This vulnerability, which remained secret for a long time, illustrates the inherent risks of decentralized blockchain protocols.
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