An integer overflow bug in the rippled codebase, existing since 2015, could theoretically have allowed 18 trillion XRP to be issued in a single transaction, 184 times the network’s entire fixed supply, threatening $94 billion in market capitalization. Veria Labs’ AI agent discovered the flaw on September 21, prompting Ripple to pay a record $250,000 bug bounty and deploy an emergency patch by September 25, bypassing its standard two-week validator voting process for the first time in ten years. No exploitation on the mainnet was recorded. The spot market held support between $1.32 and $1.37, with XRP trading around $1.388, absorbing the news without panic-driven selling.
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