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Last updated: June 17, 2025, 01:46  |  Written by: Emin Gün Sirer

And Strategic Initiatives
And Strategic Initiatives

According To Peckshield

According to PeckShield, the attacker who stole 20 million Optimism (OP) tokens intended for cryptocurrency marketplace creator Wintermute sent 1 million of those

Hacker Optimism sent 1 million OP tokens to Vitalik Buterin’s wallet

Hacker transfers 1 million Optimism tokens to Vitalik Buterin after

Now

Now, the hacker has made their next move, sending one million of the stolen OP tokens to Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin’s wallet. OP tokens are the native tokens of

Why This Hacker Sent 1M Optimism Tokens To Vitalik Buterin

The inventor of Ethereum Vitalik Buterin was the unintended recipient of 1 million OP tokens from this network’s scalability solution Optimism. The team behind this

What Happened

What Happened: An alert from blockchain security firm PeckShield revealed that a million OP tokens, worth around $874,000 at the time, was sent to Buterin’s Ethereum

Why did this hacker send 1 million OPs to Buterin?

Optimism Hacker Sent Vitalik Buterin 1M Stolen Tokens

Buterin Wasn

Buterin wasn’t the only one to have received the stolen OP tokens. Earlier today, the hacker reportedly sent 1 million OP tokens to Yoav Weiss a hacker at the Ethereum

Why This Hacker Sent 1M Optimism Tokens To Vitalik

Vitalik Buterin and Ethereum’s security expert Yoav Weiss have received one million OP tokens each from the hacker supposed to be a whitehat. Marketmaker Wintermute

The Inventor Of Ethereum Vitalik

Optimism Hacker Sends 1 Million Tokens to Ethereum Founder

Why did Ethereum's Vitalik Buterin receive 1M stolen OP Tokens?

The inventor of Ethereum Vitalik Buterin inadvertently acquired 1 million OP tokens from the network's scalability solution, Optimism. The team behind the project

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