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Ripple CEO Expresses Optimism Despite Bearish Market
The recent market downturn has seen the crypto market move in tandem with stocks. Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse has taken to Twitter to encourage new crypto investors to exercise patience amid a worsen...
Can the Optimism blockchain win the battle of the rollups?
Ethereum is plagued with criticisms of its less than optimal scaling capabilities and high gas prices. There have been talks about increasing the scaling capacity of the Ethereum mainnet for a while n...
How Optimism Just Lost 20 Million Tokens
Optimism price has collapsed to a serious low after 20 million of its tokens got stolen by a hacker while they were in transit to Wintermute, a market maker. On Thursday, the Optimism team released a ...
Optimism Hacker Returns Part Of 18M OP Tokens, Sends 2M OP To Vitalik Buterin – crypto.news
An exploiter stole 20 million Optimism tokens from the Optimism network on Thursday following a mistake by the development team. However, the hacker promised to return the stolen assets he redeemed on...
Optimism exploiter claims willingness to return 18 million OP tokens
Update (8:50 AM ET): The hacker has returned 17 million OP tokens to the Optimism Foundation in multiple onchain transactions, security firm PeckShield said. Optimism’s hacker today claimed to b...
17 Million Optimism (OP) Returned Out of 20M Stolen in Recent Hack
5 seconds ago | 2 mins read Altcoin News The OP Foundation is in the process of rescuing the 1 million OP delivered to Buterin. The corporation issued 20 million OP to the incorrect blockchain address...
Optimism Hacker Intends To Return 18 Mln OP Tokens
The Optimism (OP) hacker on Friday sent another 1 million OP tokens to Vitalik Buterin’s wallet address and left a message saying that they intend to return 18 million OP tokens. Moreover, they stated...
Layer by Layer Issue 34: Optimism, Avalanche, and Solana
June 9, 2022, 12:50PM EDT • 23 min read Quick Take In this weekly series, we dive into some of the most interesting data and developments across the Layer 1 blockchain landscape, from DeFi and bridges...
Optimism Hacker Returns 17 Million Tokens After Airdrop Blunder
The Optimism airdrop has been a comedy of errors, but it now has a somewhat happy ending. The hacker who stole 20 million Optimism (OP) tokens last week has returned 17 million of them. The tokens wer...
Exploiter Returns 17 Million Stolen Optimism Tokens
The hacker that stole 20 million OP tokens from Optimism has now returned the vast majority of his ill-begotten funds. Public blockchain data shows that he’s made 17 transfers of 1 million OP each to ...
Optimism hacker confirms they are whitehat, returns most of stolen funds
? Want to work with us? CryptoSlate is hiring for a handful of positions! Optimism hacker has confirmed they are a whitehat and asked the project developers to share a return address for the remaining...
Optimism Losses 20 Million OP Tokens to Hackers as Wintermute Gave Wrong Address
Wintermute warned that hacker(s) have a week to consider being a whitehat. The crypto market marker threatened to track all responsible for the hack after the one-week grace period. A mysterious hacke...
Optimism: 20 million OP tokens stolen
A few days ago, Optimism Foundation claimed to have sent 20 million OP tokens to Wintermute. Hey folks–in the interest of transparency, we’d like to share some details about an ongoing situatio...
Ethereum Optimism Thief Returns $16M in Stolen Tokens
Share this article The attacker also sent 1 million OP to Vitalik Buterin and retained 2 million tokens as a bounty reward. Optimism Attacker Gives Back Loot The attacker who stole 20 million OP toke...
Optimism Hacker Promises to Return 18M OP Tokens, Sends Another 1M to Buterin
Buterin has received another batch of one million OP tokens, including a message that the attacker believes in Ethereum’s co-founder. Moreover, the person who swiped the 20 million coins promised to r...
Optimism Hacker Transfers Another 1M OP Tokens To ETH Founder But Confirms To Return Remaining 18M Coins
– Advertisement – Optimism (OP) Hacker Transfers Another 1M To ETH Founder But Confirms To Return Remaining 18M Coins. The hacker who exploited the technical glitch on Ethereum Layer-2 sca...
Optimism Hacker Sends 1 Million Tokens to Ethereum Founder Vitalik Buterin
Optimism’s mysterious hacker is at it again. Ethereum layer-2 scaling solution Optimism revealed yesterday that a hacker made away with 20 million Optimism (OP) tokens after token launch partner Wint...
Optimism exploiter sends 1 million OP tokens to Vitalik Buterin’s wallet
The attacker who sniped 20 million Optimism (OP) tokens meant for crypto market maker Wintermute has sent 1 million of those coins to Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin’s wallet address, according to...
Vitalik’s Wallet Receives 1 Million OP Tokens From Optimism Exploiter
Blockchain data shows that the recent, unintended recipient of 20 million OP tokens from Optimism has sent 1 million of those tokens to Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin. According to Blockchain sec...
Optimism (OP) Hacked of $20M Tokens Following Technical Error
7 hours ago | 2 mins read Altcoin News The L1 multisig contract had already been deployed to the identical address on L2. A bad actor was able to take possession of the contract on the L2. The Optimis...
Attacker Bags 20 Million Optimism (OP) Tokens Meant for Wintermute Loan – crypto.news
Ethereum-scaling Layer-2 solution Optimism recently announced that some 20 million OP governance tokens were stolen by an attacker who interfered in a token recovery process involving Wintermute. Atta...
Optimism loses 20M tokens after L1 and L2 confusion exploited
The honeymoon period for the Optimism layer-2 scaling solution has been cut short, as an exploit in its market maker’s smart contract led to the loss of 20 million OP tokens. The exploit took place on...
Ethereum Layer-2 Solution Optimism Loses 20 Million Tokens in Interlayer Snafu
In brief The Layer 2 scaling solution provider failed to sync its Optimism address to an Ethereum address before a large transfer. The stolen OP tokens were valued at $35 million at the time of the ha...
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 project addressed concerns about a ...
Optimism Confirms $16M Fumble With Liquidity Provision
Optimism, a layer-2 scaling solution built on the Ethereum network, on Wednesday shared details about an exploit that resulted in the loss of 20 million OP tokens worth an estimated $16 million. The O...
20 Million Optimism Tokens (OP) Swiped After a Transfer Error
The Optimism Foundation, a non-profit organization that promotes sustainability via software centered around Ethereum tech, recently launched its Optimism Token (OP) on various centralized exchanges. ...
Hacker Who Seized 20 Million Optimism Tokens Sent 1 Million OP To Ethereum’s Founder Vitalik Buterin
– Advertisement – Ethereum creator has received 1 million OP from an anonymous hacker who seized 20 million coins from Wintermute. Layer-2 scaling solutions are great because they’re fas...
Optimism Just lost 20 million tokens amidst interlayer chaos
Optimism just lost 20 million tokens amidst interlayer chaos. The Ethereum Layer 2 scaling solution provider is all set to launch its native OP token for the Optimism Collective Today. But today, it b...
Optimism Foundation sends $20M to the wrong wallet – OP drops 36%
? Want to work with us? CryptoSlate is hiring for a handful of positions! The Optimism Foundation has issued a statement confirming that 20M OP tokens meant for a liquidity provisioning partner have b...
Bitcoin Optimism: People In Developing Nations Believe Crypto’s Future Is Bright
Many in the financial establishment in industrialized economies see bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies with skepticism, as a speculative and highly volatile trend that can only end badly. U.S. and Eur...