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XRP Ledger’s Payment Engine Had a Counterfeiting Bug Hiding Since 2015

Crypto | 2026-10-12 at 15:56 UTC | Source: decrypt.co
An integer overflow in the payment engine, dormant since 2015, could have let an attacker mint spendable XRP beyond the token’s total supply.
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