The creators of the cryptocurrency project Optimism, due to their own stupidity, lost 20,000,000 OP tokens worth $35,000,000.
What is known
Late last month they wanted to send20,000,000 coins to the account of the cryptocurrency market maker Wintermute, which was supposed to act as a liquidity provider for centralized exchanges. Wintermute uses the Ethereum network of the first level, but by mistake, employees of the Optimism Foundation transferred the cryptocurrency to a second level address.
After $35,000,000 was ininaccessible account, they were promptly removed from the smart contract by a hacker. Interestingly, he sent 1,000,000 tokens to the creator of the Ethereum cryptocurrency, Vitalik Buterin. The hacker sold another 1,000,000 coins.
Wintermute has taken responsibility forloss of tokens. The company promises to buy back all the coins that will appear at the auction. At the same time, she demands that the hacker return the tokens, otherwise she threatens to go to the police.
Source: Message from the Optimism Foundation
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