Ripple Pays Hackers To Attack The XRP Ledger’s New DeFi Lending Protocol

Ripple Pays Hackers To Attack The XRP Ledger’s New DeFi Lending Protocol

RippleX has put a sharp point on its “institutional DeFi” roadmap by inviting the security community to actively break the XRP Ledger’s forthcoming lending stack—before it ships. In a coordinated program with Immunefi, the company unveiled a $200,000 “Attackathon” aimed at hardening the proposed XRPL Lending Protocol, a ledger-native system for fixed-term, uncollateralized credit governed […]


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