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AI found an infinite-XRP mint bug with $94B at risk

Cayden Liao's team used AI to find a vulnerability that let anyone mint unlimited XRP, putting $94B at risk. The flaw had sat undiscovered for nearly a decade and earned the maximum $250,000 bounty.

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Our AI found a bug that let anyone mint infinite XRP, with $94B at risk. It had been hiding in one of the most audited codebases in crypto for nearly a decade, and earned us the maximum $250K bounty.

Here's how it went unnoticed, and how we found it. t.co/m7rSD8mKS5

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It had been hiding in one of the most audited codebases in crypto for nearly a decade

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