Buterin has received another batch of one million OP tokens, including a message that the attacker believes in the co-founder of Ethereum. In addition, the person who swiped 20 million coins promised to return the rest in wintermute and optimism.
- cryptopotato Yesterday reported on the drama that recently unfolded between Optimism and Wintermute – a liquidity provider partner.
- The Ethereum Layer-2 solution was supposed to send 20 million OP tokens to the address of Wintermute, but the latter provided the wrong one. Instead of the Optimism layer-2 wallet, Wintermute provided an Ethereum layer-1 address.
- This meant that assets were effectively inaccessible due to incompatibility caused by multi-sig technology.
- While Wintermute was considering switching to Layer-2 to receive funds, an unidentified criminal brutally thrashed the company and swiped all 20 million tokens.
- The firm took responsibility for their mistake and urged the attacker to reveal their identity and return the money before pursuing them in court.
- It appears to have had an effect because the hacker sent a million tokens to a wallet belonging to Vitalik Buterin, somewhat surprisingly.
- Today, he made another such transaction, but it carried a special message for the Ethereum co-founder. It says the attacker believed in Buterin and sought his opinion on what to do with the funds.
- As for Wintermute and Optimism, the hacker said he was “sorry” and added that he only had “18M, and that’s what I can return.”
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