Security researchers used AI to find a bug in XRP. The report puts it at "$94 billion", and the headline puts it at "18 trillion XRP". The researchers got a $250K bounty for it. The excerpt doesn't say how the bug works or whether anyone took any XRP through it.
A second story in the same report is about tampered Ledger hardware wallets. This scheme has already taken an estimated $93.4 million from hardware wallet users in Asia. Now a user says they bought a tampered Ledger from a large retailer in Europe, so the attack is reported to have reached the EU.
Both stories come from Cointelegraph Magazine's Hodler's Digest, written by Andrew Fenton and published Oct 11, 2026. The excerpt doesn't name the European retailer or say how many devices in Europe are affected. It also doesn't say whether the XRP bug has been fixed.
For anyone already holding a perpetual position, nothing changes directly. Neither story is about funding rates, trading fees or liquidity on Bitget, Bybit, MEXC or OKX. The Ledger attack targets coins people keep in their own wallets, not margin held at an exchange. The market snapshot in the source shows XRP at $1.40 when it was published.
Source: cointelegraph — Ledger attack spreads to EU, AI finds ’18 trillion XRP’ bug: Hodler’s Digest
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