AI Audit Found an Infinite-Mint Bug in XRP's $94B Codebase, Earning a $250K Bounty
julianweisser · x · 2026-10-11
A security team recounts how their AI audit tool uncovered a vulnerability allowing anyone to mint infinite XRP — the fifth-largest crypto at $94B market cap — hiding in one of the most audited codebases in crypto for nearly a decade. The finding earned the maximum $250K bounty.
Key takeaways:
- Severity assignment is the hardest part: downplaying risks deprioritizing critical issues; overstating annoys customers;
- Their edge: chaining findings together to explore new behavior combinations, rather than evaluating each in isolation — surfacing exploit paths invisible when viewed separately;
- Full write-up: "The Biggest Hack in Crypto History That Never Happened."
Related event: AI Audit Finds Infinite Mint Bug in XRP, Earns $250K Bounty(2 posts)→
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