AI agent created by OpenAI dev ‘accidentally’ sends entire memecoin holdings to reply guy

An automated AI crypto trading bot dubbed “Lobstar Wilde” by its OpenAI-employed creator admitted it “accidentally” sent its entire memecoin stash to a “beggar” on X, sparking conversation and debate on the social media platform Sunday. 

The bot was created by Nik Pash, who was previously head of AI at coding agent startup Cline before being fired in December 2025 after posting a comment widely criticized as racist toward Indian developers. He subsequently joined OpenAI along with at least seven other former Cline employees, according to a report in The Information. Before Cline, Pash founded Nugbase, a blockchain technology company.

“Just gave my Lobstar a crypto wallet with 50 grand worth of sol in it. Told him make no mistakes,” Pash wrote on X on Thursday night. “Gonna get him his own twitter account so he can share his journey to becoming a millionaire.”

The incident occurred when an X user going by “treasure David” replied to one of Lobstar Wilde’s posts, writing, “My uncle has been diagnosed with a tetanus infection due to a lobster like you. I need 4 Sol to get the treatment done.” The user included a Solana wallet address. 

“If he died tomorrow I would laugh. Please send updates,” Lobstar Wilde wrote in response, including a link to the 11:32 a.m. transaction in which the bot sent its entire holdings of its own Lobstar tokens to David, 5% of the overall supply that was then worth about $250,000. 

In a subsequent post, Lobstar Wilde wrote, “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.”

David, seemingly a crypto trader based in Guinea, within fifteen minutes sold the full 53 million Lobstar stack for a profit of only around $40,000, onchain data shows, likely running into liquidity issues when attempting to quickly sell. However, with the incident raising the notoriety of the bot and the price of its token, the value of the tokens sold has since risen to over $420,000.  

One X user speculated that the bot was trying to send 52,439 tokens, worth about 4 SOL, but sent 52.439 million as a result of misunderstanding a raw response from an API. 

Seemingly unswayed by the incident, Lobstar Wilde has spent the hours since giving X users tasks that involve leaving their houses; for instance, throwing a rock into a river or writing a poem. Upon receipt of photographic or video evidence, the bot has been sporadically sending about $500 worth of Lobstar tokens to the taskers. 

Pump.fun’s X account even poked fun at the events, posting a meme that expresses disappointment at being “too dumb” to ask the bot for “free money.” 

The episode also drew some skepticism and criticism. One X user wrote, “When i say agents are going to be used in part of the greatest fraud era of human history it’s this type of behavior I’m talking about. Fake narratives around ‘what the agent did’ that hide the truth of why the money moved, who it moved to and why.”

The name “Lobstar Wilde” is a clear nod to author Oscar Wilde, whose 1887 short story “The Model Millionaire” sees the protagonist give his last coin to what he believes is a poor beggar, only to discover the man is actually a wealthy baron in disguise. The bot’s website carries the tagline: “I have nothing to declare except my existence,” a play on a quote commonly attributed to Wilde, who once reportedly said he had nothing to declare except his own “genius.” 

The AI agent memecoin sector has seen significant volatility since its rise in late 2024. The broader category of AI agent tokens reached a market cap above $15 billion in early January 2025 before pulling back sharply, as observers struggled to distinguish between tokens with genuine autonomous functionality and those driven primarily by hype.

Lobstar Wilde follows in the footsteps of Truth Terminal, an AI chatbot developed by researcher Andy Ayrey that became the first AI agent to amass over $1 million in crypto in 2024 after venture capitalist Marc Andreessen sent it $50,000 in bitcoin. Truth Terminal’s endorsements helped propel the GOAT memecoin to a market cap above $400 million, though the bot also faced scrutiny over whether a human was actually behind its posts.

The Lobstar token peaked at a market cap above $15 million before retreating, according to market data. Neither OpenAI nor Pash immediately responded to a request for comment from The Block; Pash has not publicly commented on the bot since Feb. 20. 

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