XRP Ledger patches bug that threatened its 100B XRP cap
The flaw could have bypassed the ledger’s fixed-supply safeguards, but RippleX found no evidence of exploitation and shipped a patch in xrpld 3.4.1.
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The flaw could have bypassed the ledger’s fixed-supply safeguards, but RippleX found no evidence of exploitation and shipped a patch in xrpld 3.4.1.
Recovery funding has no disclosed amount or payment timetable, and Zano has yet to publish eligibility rules or a claims process.
The transfer combines ETH withdrawn directly with ETH bought using USDT, consolidating $1.23M in value at the wallet identified as belonging to the hacker.
The loss exposed a protocol-level authorization flaw, while a 10-day halt and missed 2024 audit raise questions about maintenance code and emergency controls.
Public ledgers are becoming durable malware coordination layers, forcing defenders to monitor wallets, smart contracts and RPC traffic instead of relying only on server takedowns.
The risk is confined to Sepolia, but the shortened review window raises pressure on client teams before any mainnet date is set.
The proposed move puts smart-contract risk management closer to the market infrastructure institutional investors already rely on.
The threat was contained with no user funds exploited, but deposits, withdrawals and MANTRA transactions remain frozen pending testing for a possible same-day restart.
The security shift is also a scaling test: wallet UX and signature aggregation may decide which ecosystem can adopt stronger protection without passing the cost to users.
The 2027 banking deadline puts wallet design and signature aggregation at the center of Ethereum's 40x signature-cost problem.
A suspected validator encoding flaw may have enabled signature reuse as NIGHT plunged more than 30% to a record low.
The 2027 target lands three years ahead of the NSA's national-security deadline, framing post-quantum readiness as a competitive race rather than a distant hygiene problem.
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The Zodiac delay-module bug lets an attacker push transactions from affected Safe wallets — the second time in a week a module-based attack has drained funds from the Gnosis stack.
No funds lost and no transactions reverted, but $SUI dropped ~19% on the week and the chain has now logged three major reliability failures since its 2023 launch — a pattern validators and builders…
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The cryptography swap works, but cross-region native-transfer TPS fell from 4,973 to 2,997 as signatures ballooned from 110 bytes to 2.5 KB — and user transactions, not validators, are the bottleneck.
April was likely the worst month for DeFi hacks on record — a $295M Drift exploit and a similar-sized KelpDAO hit landed while State Street told Consensus Miami the rails aren't ready for…