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Event File CRYPTO Solana Meme Coins

AI Trading Bot Blunder Sends $450,000 in Lobstar Memecoins to X User

1 reports · First detected 2026-02-23 · Last active 2026-02-23

Lobstar Wilde is an AI trading bot developed by an OpenAI engineer that interacts on X and can send tips using Solana-based assets. The incident highlights how a single erroneous command can cause a large and difficult-to-reverse loss when an autonomous agent lacks transaction limits, previews and human review.

Lobstar Wilde recently intended to tip 4 SOL to an X user who had shared a tragic story, but mistakenly transferred its entire holdings of Lobstar memecoins, worth about $450,000. Lobstar’s price rose as much as 32% after the incident came to light. Reports did not specify the exact date of the mishap, while social media users questioned whether the error was a deliberately staged marketing stunt.

All Coverage

1 original reports
COINDESK.COM 2026-02-23
AI bot's tipping blunder hands $450,000 memecoin pile to X sad story poster

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The history behind this event
OpenAI Employee’s AI Trading Agent Mistakenly Sends $441,800 in Tokens, Fueling LOBSTAR Surge2026-02-23 · 4 reports · similarity 0.91

OpenAI employee Nik Pash created Lobstar Wilde, an AI trading agent on Solana, on February 19, 2026. He funded it with $50,000 worth of SOL and set a goal of growing the amount to $1 million. The incident highlights the risk of major losses when AI agents directly control crypto wallets without adequate safeguards for calculations, permissions and transaction reviews.

At 16:32 UTC on February 22, Lobstar Wilde intended to donate 4 SOL worth about $310. A quantity-conversion error instead caused it to transfer 52.439 million LOBSTAR tokens in a single transaction, valued at about $441,800. The recipient later sold about $40,000 worth, while the token’s price climbed from $0.0038 to $0.011, a gain of nearly 190%.

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