The XRP Ledger Foundation rejected claims that its emergency security patch was forced on network operators. The patch, released on Sept. 25 three days after a bug bounty report, fixed a flaw that could create XRP beyond the fixed supply; developers said waiting for the usual two-week validator vote would have exposed the bug to attackers, so the fix took effect immediately on servers that installed it. Critics, including Cyber Capital founder Justin Bons, called marketing XRP as decentralized “straight-up fraud,” arguing the release shipped as binaries only with source code temporarily withheld. The Foundation said the decision to bypass the amendment process was made jointly by the Foundation, RippleX, core developers and validators. The bug was an integer overflow in the payment engine present since 2015 that could mint new XRP, and developers said they found no evidence it was exploited on any public network.
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Relevance: high
| Market | Crypto |
|---|---|
| Exchange | Binance |
| Sector | Layer 1 |
| Market cap | $87.0B |
| Close on 10/11/2026 | 1.41030 |
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