{"id":87788,"date":"2026-10-10T09:05:42","date_gmt":"2026-10-10T09:05:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cryptocabaret.com\/?p=87788"},"modified":"2026-10-10T09:05:42","modified_gmt":"2026-10-10T09:05:42","slug":"a-decade-old-xrp-ledger-bug-could-have-minted-xrp-out-of-thin-air","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cryptocabaret.com\/?p=87788","title":{"rendered":"A Decade-Old XRP Ledger Bug Could Have Minted XRP Out of Thin Air"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img width=\"768\" height=\"432\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cryptocabaret.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/ripple-1-768x432-1.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium_large size-medium_large wp-post-image\" alt=\"Ripple logo\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.news.bitcoin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/ripple-1-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/static.news.bitcoin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/ripple-1-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.cryptocabaret.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/ripple-1-768x432-1.jpg 768w, https:\/\/static.news.bitcoin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/ripple-1-190x107.jpg 190w, https:\/\/static.news.bitcoin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/ripple-1-380x214.jpg 380w, https:\/\/static.news.bitcoin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/ripple-1-760x428.jpg 760w, https:\/\/static.news.bitcoin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/ripple-1.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\">The XRP Ledger quietly patched a 2015-era payment engine flaw that could have let an attacker create spendable XRP beyond the network\u2019s fixed supply for just a few hundred XRP in reserves. What Was Actually Broken? The problem sat inside the code that settles payments across the XRP Ledger\u2019s built-in decentralized exchange (DEX). According to [\u2026]<\/p>\n<p class=\"wpematico_credit\"><small>Powered by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wpematico.com\" target=\"_blank\">WPeMatico<\/a><\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The XRP Ledger quietly patched a 2015-era payment engine flaw that could have let an attacker create spendable XRP beyond the network\u2019s fixed supply for just a few hundred XRP in reserves. What Was Actually Broken? The problem sat inside the code that settles payments across the XRP Ledger\u2019s built-in decentralized exchange (DEX). According to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":87789,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[309],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87788","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cryptocurrency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptocabaret.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87788","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptocabaret.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptocabaret.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptocabaret.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptocabaret.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=87788"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptocabaret.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87788\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptocabaret.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/87789"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptocabaret.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=87788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptocabaret.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=87788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptocabaret.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=87788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}