Optimism price increased by about 25% after the hacker agreed to return the OP tokens.
The Optimism (OP) hacker sent another 1 million OP tokens to Vitalik Buterin’s wallet address on Friday, along with a message stating that they intend to return 18 million OP tokens. Furthermore, they stated that they believe in Ethereum’s founder, Vitalik Buterin, and simply wanted to hear his thoughts.
On Thursday, the hacker sent 1 million OP tokens to Vitalik Buterin’s wallet address.
The hacker transferred another 1 million OP tokens to Vitalik Buterin’s wallet address and left a message in the “input data box,” according to Etherscan data on the Optimistic browser. The message is as follows:
“Hello, Vitalik, I believe in you, just want to know your opinion on this. BTW, help to verify the return address and I will return the remaining after you. And hello Wintermute, sorry, I only have 18M and this is what I can return.
Stay Optimistic!”
The attacker has proven to be a whitehat. Furthermore, they requested that developers share a return address for sending the remaining Optimism (OP) tokens after address verification. In addition, he confirms to Wintermute that he only has 18 million OP tokens to return.
Wintermute offered the hacker one week to consider turning whitehat in a public message on Thursday, urging the hacker to return stolen OP tokens. Furthermore, the team is impressed with the hacker and has offered future consulting opportunities or other forms of collaboration.
After the hacker agreed to return the OP tokens, the price of Optimism (OP) increased by nearly 10%. Massive trading volume in the last two hours aided the rally. At the time of writing, the OP price was trading at $0.9207, up nearly 25% from its low of $0.73.
The Optimism hack caused the price of the OP token to drop by more than 20%, reaching an all-time low of $0.7142. However, the price recovered most of its losses after the hacker transferred 1 million tokens to Vitalik Buterin and Wintermute promised to return the funds.
