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“I am happy with how this situation has resolved. I think it teaches an important lesson about blockchain security for the industry—both for the actors engaging in movements of funds and for the security and protocol builders about making the products more secure, user-friendly and fool-proof,” Gaevoy told Motherboard in a Twitter DM. “It also sets an important precedent for resolving such attacks in future in a self-governing way. I would encourage the exploiter to accept their mistakes fully and publicly and offer bounties to those who find them, and for the exploiters to cooperate and choose the ‘right’ route by wearing the white hat. If this becomes the protocol to follow, it would help all of us to innovate in a more secure way”.On Twitter, Optimism confirmed that they had received the stolen crypto, and that Wintermute “has committed to reimbursing the Optimism Foundation.”The company also said that the remaining two million OP “was kept as a bounty.”UPDATE, June 10, 11:25 a.m. ET: This story was updated to include Optimism’s statement on Twitter.UPDATE, June 15, 1:54 p.m. ET: This story has been updated to include Gaevoy’s comments. Subscribe to our podcast, CYBER. Subscribe to our new Twitch channel.