AI Finds Bug Enabling Infinite XRP Minting, Earning $250K Bounty
massimosgrelli · x · 2026-11-03
Verial Labs says its AI discovered a vulnerability that would let anyone mint infinite tokens on XRP — the fifth-largest cryptocurrency at $94B market cap, bigger than Solana and USDC.
- The bug had hidden for nearly a decade in one of crypto's most heavily audited codebases; exploited maliciously, it could have been the largest hack in crypto history.
- The team responsibly disclosed it and earned the maximum $250K bounty; researcher Cayden Liao wrote up how it went unnoticed and how their AI found it.
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