Ripple criticized for offering too small a bug bounty for an XRP minting vulnerability
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On October 13, 2026, Cryptopolitan reported that blockchain investigator ZachXBT criticized Ripple for paying a $250,000 bounty to Veria Labs, the discoverer of a critical vulnerability in the XRP Ledger, arguing that the amount was too low. The report said that the vulnerability could once have been exploited through a single transaction to credit 18.45 trillion XRP to 256 accounts. Existing reports have only disclosed the vulnerability's impact and the bounty dispute; they have not stated whether the vulnerability has been fixed, nor reported Ripple's response to the criticism.
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- CryptopolitanSelectedZachXBT criticizes Ripple for paying $250,000 for vulnerability that could mint 18.45 trillion XRP on the XRP Ledger
ZachXBT criticized Ripple for paying Veria Labs a $250,000 bounty for discovering a critical vulnerability in the XRP Ledger that could have credited 18.45 trillion XRP to 256 accounts in a single transaction.
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