TREE NEWS reports: On-chain investigator ZachXBT criticized the XRP Ledger Foundation for paying only $250,000 to a white-hat hacker who discovered a critical flaw that could have allowed infinite XRP minting. He said the low payout risks encouraging future attackers to exploit such bugs for nine-figure sums instead of reporting them. The XRPL Foundation had earlier clarified that the vulnerability did not mint new XRP and that a community-driven patch resolved it.
ZachXBT Criticizes XRPL Foundation for $250K Bounty on Infinite XRP Mint Bug
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The dispute is less about the dollar figure than about precedent: bounty pricing shapes whether white-hats report or exploit, and a public critic of ZachXBT's reach can shift researcher behavior across ecosystems. The Foundation's clarification that no new XRP was minted narrows the technical fallout, but the reputational question persists. Whether the payout is revised, and how other foundations calibrate bounties for mint-level bugs, is the open observation.
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