Solana AI agent named Lobstar has given away more than $441,000 in meme coins after it was convinced to send the funds through a social media post. According to a report, the AI agent ended up sending all the tokens contained in its stash after a donation request came in on social media.
The incident has drawn the attention of the public to the risks associated with autonomy, with the incident coming after another AI agent exposed its wallet private keys, raising a major security issue. Lobstar was created last Friday by Nick Pash, as part of the Codex app by OpenAI. The agent was given $50,000 in the form of Solana tokens and asked to turn a profit of $1 million without making any mistakes.
Solana AI agent mistakenly sends funds on request
Aside from trading, the bot had a social media account where it rehashed ancient texts. However, the issue happened after the bot made a mistake in listening to a user’s request to donate 4 SOL. In addition to the donation, the bot continued communication with the person who received the funds, which was around $440K in Lobstar tokens.
The agent was also tested with purchasing a newly launched memecoin, but refused to purchase the token. Lobstar did not explicitly state why it carried out the request this way. There is also no evidence on whether its counterparty is a human or another agent on social media. The Lobstar agent also issued a meme token of the same name, trading as a decentralized pair on PumpSwap.
The recipient of $441K worth of Lobstar tokens sold immediately, not caring for slippage. At that time, Lobstar only had $300K in liquidity. Due to slippage, the recipient only gained around $40,000. Based on the AI agent’s own report, the error was due to its inability to do real arithmetic without hallucinations. However, the bot was not shut down and continued posting.
In addition, the bot also receives fees and continues interacting through its wallet, which is also receiving donations. Currently, the bot has regained $324K while receiving new meme tokens. The bot remains a low-stakes experiment, using already well-established exchanges for meme token speculation. One potential explanation is that the AI agent staged the mistake deliberately to draw attention to its token.
Following the incident, Lobstar recovered from its slide and started making gains, expanding its liquidity to $455K. The agent’s activity also finds ways to turn social media attention into crypto gains, showing the bot’s incentive may not be trading, but mindshare and exposure. The AI agent is suspected of not being fully autonomous, but following the script of its human creators.
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