Optimism Hacker Who Walked Away With 20M Tokens Sends 1M To Ethereum Founder Vitalik Buterin

Last updated: June 10, 2025, 00:39

Optimism Hacker Who Walked Away With 20M Tokens Sends 1M To Ethereum Founder Vitalik Buterin

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Is Vitalik Buterin Behind The Recent $16 Mln Optimism (OP) Hack?

Ethereum layer-2 scaling solution Optimism revealed yesterday that a hacker made away with 20 million Optimism (OP) tokens after token launch partner Wintermute

Optimism Losses 20 Million OP Tokens to Hackers as

A mysterious hacker has carted

Optimism loses 20M tokens after L1 and L2 confusion exploited

A mysterious hacker has carted away 20 million stolen Optimism (OP) tokens due to an accidental transfer between Wintermute and Optimism.

The Optimism Foundation has revealed that it lost 20 million OP tokens in an incident involving the market-making firm Wintermute. Wintermute had mistakenly provided

Hacker Sends

Hacker got optimized and stole around $35 million - Medium

Optimism Hacker Promises to Return 18M OP Tokens, Sends

Hacker Sends 1 Million OP Tokens to Vitalik Buterin. A hacker managed to stole 20 million OP governance tokens from liquidity provider Wintermute’s wallet address.

The market maker for Optimism

Wintermute Makes Optimistic Assumption, Loses 20M Tokens

The anonymous hacker who stole 20M OP tokens has sent another 1M to Vitalik Buterin and made a reassuring promise to Optimism.

The market maker for Optimism’s native OP token lost 20 million tokens after it discovered it didn’t have access to its contract on the layer-2 scaling solution. The hacker

Optimism

Optimism, the platform behind Ethereum’s layer-2 scaling solution, witnessed an exploit recently. A hacker got away with 20 million OP tokens after token launch partner

Optimism Hacker Sends 1 Million Tokens to Ethereum Founder

Optimism Hacker Who Walked Away With 20M Tokens