XRP Ledger Patches Bug That Threatened Token’s Fixed Supply

The governance angle is the real story here: shipping a transaction-processing change without an amendment vote breaks with the ledger's established precedent, and the justification — a supply-integrity flaw possibly latent since 2015 — will shape how much unilateral authority validators are seen to have in future emergencies. Holders of a fixed-supply asset are the immediate stakeholders, since credible scarcity is the core of the thesis. Whether this sets a precedent for faster, less consultative patching, or is treated as a one-off, is the open question.