Avalanche's Sirer Warns AI Could Expose Flaws in XRP Ledger
Avalanche founder Emin Gün Sirer says AI-driven vulnerability discovery may pose a bigger near-term risk to the XRP Ledger than the fall of existing cryptography.
Emin Gün Sirer, the founder of Avalanche, has argued that AI-driven tools could uncover security flaws in the XRP Ledger, and that this prospect deserves more attention than the eventual decline of existing cryptography. His remarks were reported by BeInCrypto.
Sirer presented automated vulnerability discovery as the more pressing concern, suggesting that AI systems able to probe code and network behaviour may surface weaknesses faster than teams can patch them. The argument is a general one about AI-assisted security research rather than a disclosure of a specific bug in the ledger.
Renewed scrutiny
The warning came as the XRP Ledger faces fresh attention over an emergency software update, according to the report. The source did not detail the nature of that update or which components it affected, and no vulnerability in the ledger has been confirmed publicly.
AI-assisted code auditing has become a growing topic across the crypto industry, as teams explore automated tools to scan protocol and smart contract code for bugs. Claims of specific flaws typically remain unverified until the project involved confirms them.