AI Uncovers XRP Ledger Bug: Is It a Threat or a Defense?

An AI security system just flagged a flaw in the XRP Ledger that human reviewers missed for a decade, and the fix required breaking a decade-long protocol. Now developers across every major crypto network are asking whether AI accelerates their…

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A recent discovery by Veria Labs, a security firm, revealed a major flaw in the XRP Ledger that could have created an astounding 18.45 trillion XRP (CRYPTO: XRP) out of thin air. This amount is more than 184 times the original total supply of 100 billion XRP coins. Veria Labs warned that this bug posed a serious risk to XRP’s entire market value, which stood at about $94 billion at the time of the report.

On September 22, 2026, researcher Cayden Liao, together with Veria AI, an artificial intelligence security system, identified this vulnerability. The issue stemmed from a single payment that could buy multiple trading offers at once. A counting error let sellers receive full payment while the buyer was charged almost nothing, creating XRP that never actually existed. Unfortunately, the safety check designed to detect such errors failed because of the same faulty counting code.