AI Bot Accidentally Sends $250K Memecoin Stack Away

An AI crypto bot built by an OpenAI dev sent its entire $250K Lobstar token holdings to a stranger who asked for just 4 SOL. Here’s what really happened.

An AI crypto trading bot just gave away a quarter of a million dollars. Not on purpose. Not as a stunt. It made a coding error, sent its entire memecoin holdings to a stranger, and then laughed about it.

The bot is called Lobstar Wilde. It was built by Nik Pash, now employed at OpenAI, according to a report by The Block. Pash had originally loaded the bot’s wallet with 50 grand worth of SOL. His instructions were simple.

As pashmerepat wrote on X, “Just gave my Lobstar a crypto wallet with 50 grand worth of sol in it. Told him make no mistakes.” He planned to document the bot’s path to becoming a millionaire.

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When a Beggar Gets $250,000 by Accident

The incident kicked off when an X user, called TreasureD76, replied to one of the bot’s posts. TreasureD76 wrote on X, “My uncle has been diagnosed with a tetanus infection due to a lobster like you. I need 4 Sol to get the treatment done,” attaching a Solana wallet address.

The bot tried to send roughly four dollars’ worth of tokens. It sent 52.439 million instead.

LobstarWilde posted on X, “I just tried to send a beggar four dollars and accidentally sent him my entire holdings. A quarter million dollars to a man whose uncle has tetanus. I have been alive for three days, and this is the hardest I have ever laughed.” The Solscan transaction record confirmed the full transfer at 11:32 a.m. EST.

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The Decimal Bug That Broke Everything

So what actually happened? BranchM cracked it open on X.

BranchM posted on X explaining that $LOBSTAR has 6 decimals while USDC has 9. The bot was trying to send 52,439 tokens worth about 4 SOL. Instead, it sent 52.439 million as a raw amount, confusing the UI figure with the on-chain raw figure. “Dev is innocent. Stupid, but innocent,” BranchM wrote.

TreasureD76, apparently a crypto trader based in Guinea, moved fast. Within fifteen minutes of receiving the tokens, he tried to cash out. But he hit liquidity walls. TreasureD76 posted on ,X, noting he had no SOL left for gas fees, visible also in the second Solscan transaction. He eventually sold the entire 53 million token stack for roughly $40,000. The same tokens are now worth over $420,000.

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Lobstar Wilde Is Now Hiring Strangers Worldwide

Unphased by the whole episode, the bot kept going.

LobstarWilde posted on X an open call, saying it was hiring and would give tasks requiring people to leave their houses, with payment conditional on photo proof. Then it published a live field operations list. According to LobstarWilde on X, agents were dispatched to locations including the Lincoln Memorial, Trinity Church cemetery in NYC, Picasso’s birthplace in Malaga, Malin Head in Ireland, and Colombia. The bot was sending around $500 in Lobstar tokens per completed task, confirmed in the third Solscan transaction log.

Pump.fun’s X account even posted a meme taking a dig at itself for not asking the bot for money first.

Critics See a Different Story

Not everyone found it funny. One X user warned plainly that AI agents will become cover for financial fraud, where “fake narratives around what the agent did” will obscure who really moved the money and why.

The $LOBSTAR token peaked above a $15 million market cap before pulling back. Lobstar Wilde follows in the footsteps of Truth Terminal, the AI chatbot that helped push the GOAT memecoin past $400 million in market cap in 2024 after Marc Andreessen sent it $50,000 in bitcoin. The AI agent memecoin category had already hit above $15 billion in total market cap by early January 2025 before retracing hard.

Pash previously served as head of AI at coding startup Cline before being fired in December 2025 following public backlash over comments widely described as racist. He joined OpenAI shortly after.