Artificial intelligence is rewriting the playbook for cryptocurrency security, catching vulnerabilities in 2026 that years of conventional auditing had failed to detect. Three separate discoveries across the XRP Ledger and Zcash networks shielded a combined $190 billion in digital assets from potential compromise, according to analysis highlighted by Coin Bureau.

The most severe flaw was buried in the XRP Ledger’s payment engine, where it had sat undetected since 2015. Veria Labs’ AI system, Veria AI, identified an integer overflow vulnerability that could have allowed a single unauthorized transaction to mint 18.45 trillion XRP — a figure 184 times larger than the token’s official 100 billion supply.

The attack was repeatable, meaning…