An emergency patch for XRP

A flaw buried in the XRP codebase since 2015 could have let an attacker create spendable XRP beyond the token’s 100 billion cap. Veria Labs said its AI agent found the bug and built a working exploit, earning the firm a $250,000 bounty. While Ripple developers found no evidence the bug was ever exploited, it was a wake up call for not only Ripple, but all other crypto projects. Read more →

Solana ETFs kept attracting money as ether funds slid into outflows—but that divergence ended last week. Ether funds shed $542 million, extending a nine-day withdrawal streak totaling $697 million, while Solana funds lost $24.8 million to snap 14 consecutive weeks of inflows. The reversal comes just two weeks after Solana attracted a record $188 million in a single week. Bitcoin ETFs also recorded $681 million in net outflows, bringing the three categories’ combined weekly withdrawals to roughly $1.25 billion. Read more →

Bitcoin activity surges when major World Bank aid payments arrive, according to an NBER working paper that found patterns consistent with money laundering. Researchers estimate that somewhere between 2 and 6 cents of every dollar of World Bank foreign aid disbursements got siphoned off into crypto wallets. Their findings point to newly created anonymous wallets and a public transaction trail that could help investigators follow the money. Read more →

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