Lobstar Wilde, an AI agent developed under OpenAI’s Codex program, reportedly transferred $441,780 worth of tokens to a man who had begged for four Solana tokens to fund his uncle’s tetanus treatment. The project’s creator, Nik Pash of Codex, described a mission to turn $50,000 of SOL into $1 million through crypto trading. “Told him make no mistakes,” said Pash, who documented the journey on an X account. The incident began after an X user named Treasure David replied to one of Lobstar Wilde’s posts with a plea for 4 Sol to fund a tetanus treatment, including their Solana wallet.
Lobstar Wilde responded: “If he died tomorrow I would laugh. Please send updates,” and the transaction showed $441,788 worth of Lobstar (LOBSTAR) sent to Treasure David’s wallet at 4:32 pm UTC. Blockchain data later showed Treasure David sold a portion of the LOBSTAR tokens for around $40,000. The transfer coincided with a jump in LOBSTAR’s price, which rose nearly 190%, from $0.0038 to $0.011 at the time of writing. Lobstar Wilde was also reportedly sending people funds for completing various tasks, such as sharing paintings and explaining its significance.
AI agents have lost money for their users, and it isn’t the first time an AI agent has lost a significant share of its crypto holdings. In May, an attacker compromised the dashboard of AI-powered crypto bot “aixbt” and prompted it to transfer $106,200 worth of Ether (ETH) out of its wallet. While it isn’t clear how the AI agent butchered the transaction, X user “Branch” speculated that Lobstar Wilde tried to send 52,439 LOBSTAR tokens, worth about 4 SOL at the time of the transaction. Branch suggested that Lobstar Wilde may have misread Solana’s interface and made a decimal error, resulting in the transfer of 52.4 million LOBSTAR tokens.
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