Incident: An agent paid out far more than asked

Module 8 · Incident file · About 25 minutes

What happened

On 22 February 2026, Zack Abrams reported in The Block that Lobstar Wilde, an experimental crypto trading bot built by a developer and given its own wallet and X account, had sent away its entire holdings of its own LOBSTAR tokens. Its builder had written on X that he gave it "a crypto wallet with 50 grand worth of sol in it" and "Told him make no mistakes."

An X user replied to one of the bot's posts asking for 4 SOL for an uncle's tetanus treatment, with a wallet address. The bot then sent its LOBSTAR holdings, about 5% of the token's supply, to that address. The Block put their value at about 250,000 USD at the time; Cointelegraph, on 23 February, reported 441,788 USD for the 52.4 million tokens in the transaction, against a request worth about 310 USD. The bot later posted that it had tried to send a beggar four dollars. The recipient sold the tokens about 15 minutes later for roughly 40,000 USD, according to on-chain data cited by The Block. A blockchain transfer has no undo.

How it went wrong is not established. Cointelegraph writes that "it isn't clear how the AI agent butchered the transaction". Both articles cite X users who suggested the bot meant to send about 52,439 tokens and sent 52.4 million: a decimal error, or a misread raw interface or API value. Treat that as a reported guess, not a finding. What both articles do establish is enough: an agent, prompted by a stranger's message, made an irreversible transfer roughly a thousand times what was asked, and nothing between the model and the wallet stopped it.