Ethereum scaling solution Optimism announced today that 20 million in OP governance tokens have been stolen by attackers. Unfortunately, an attacker was able to deploy the multisig to L2 with different initialization parameters before these efforts were completed, assuming ownership of the 20m OP. This address has since sold 1m OP:https://t.co/W8uiYPB9Of — Optimism (✨🔴_🔴✨) (@optimismPBC) June 8, 2022 Optimism Loses 20M Tokens The airdrop of first-time governance tokens from Ethereum scaling solution Optimism suffered the exploit, with cryptocurrency market maker Wintermute taking responsibility for the lapse. Optimism created OP as the governance token for its DAO, and hired market maker Wintermute to distribute the 20 million OP tokens in an airdrop to Optimism Collective stakeholders to continue its launch. The loan was initially deployed on Wintermute’s wallets on Optimism, but Wintermute CEO Evgeny Gaevoy said in a statement that they made a serious error. The company in preparation to launch a native OP token for the Optimism Collective DAO accidentally sent 20 million tokens to the wrong blockchain address. The error resulted in the theft of all 20 million OP tokens by a hacker. The attacker cashed out 1 million of the stolen OP tokens into Ethereum, and then transferred those funds to an unknown address via Tornado Cash. The remaining 19 million tokens are still in the attacker’s wallet. In the meantime, Wintermute ha...
