Incident record · Under review Avalanche Founder: Smart-contract vulnerability TL;DR: Emin Gün Sirer, founder of Avalanche, stated on social media that advanced artificial intelligence could uncover zero-day software bugs across blockchains such as the XRP Ledger. XRP Ledger developers rolled out an emergency security patch on September 25, 2026, without immediately disclosing the underlying source code of the fixes. The technical argument emerges amid ... Read more
Status Under review
Reported loss Unavailable
Chain Avalanche
Confidence 55%
Evidence boundary Confidence describes the coverage of the available evidence. It is not a safety rating and does not guarantee that a protocol or asset is safe.
Sources Record history First seen: 2026-10-09T21:55:25.000Z. Last updated: 2026-10-09T22:16:08.247Z. Revision: 1.
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