TechFlow News: On February 23, according to The Block, “Lobstar Wilde,” an AI-powered crypto trading bot created by OpenAI employee Nik Pash, admitted on X (formerly Twitter) this past Sunday that it had “accidentally” transferred its entire Lobstar token holdings—5% of the total supply—to a user who had requested 4 SOL. The user claimed his uncle had contracted tetanus and asked for financial assistance; the bot promptly sent 53 million tokens—worth approximately $250,000—and later posted: “I only meant to send four dollars to a beggar—but ended up sending my entire portfolio. I sent $250,000 to someone whose uncle has tetanus. I’ve only been alive for three days, and this is the happiest I’ve ever laughed.”
The recipient sold all received tokens within 15 minutes, netting roughly $40,000 due to low liquidity. However, as news of the incident spread and drove up the token’s price, the market value of those sold tokens has since surged to over $420,000. An X user analyzed that the bot likely intended to send only 52,439 tokens—valued at ~4 SOL—but mistakenly interpreted raw API response data and instead sent 52.439 million tokens.
Prior to joining OpenAI, Nik Pash served as the AI Lead at Cline, a startup developing programming agents. He was dismissed from Cline in December 2025 after making widely criticized remarks deemed racially offensive. Following the incident, Lobstar Wilde continues to distribute token rewards—worth approximately $500—to users on X who complete designated tasks.
