Is XRP Dead? We Asked Claude AI After a Week That Tested the Ledger's Cap, Its Governance and Its Biggest Treasury.

A decade-old bug, a governance fight, and a $443 million treasury listing hit XRP in a single week, and now Claude AI is putting hard probability numbers on whether this crypto survives the next 14 months.

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Is XRP (CRYPTO: XRP) on its last legs? This question has resurfaced among investors after a tough week in early October 2026 that tested the XRP Ledger’s supply cap and governance, and hit the largest XRP corporate treasury in quick succession.

XRP is currently trading at $1.37, up 0.4% for the day, though it has declined 6.7% over the past week. This price puts it about 62.5% below its all-time high of $3.65 in July 2025, though some records indicate a peak of $3.84 in January 2018, a level XRP has yet to reach again.

A Supply Bug, a Bounty Dispute, and a Treasury Listing Put XRP to the Test

The most significant issue was a ledger bug that could have created 18.45 trillion XRP tokens, undermining the fixed supply investors rely on. A researcher privately reported the issue on September 22; Ripple resolved it by September 25 and disclosed the bug on October 9, with no evidence of exploitation.