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Lobstar Wilde AI agent sends $441K in tokens after decimal error

Preliminary Why: Publisher not yet named · subject to change

Status: no action reported

Severity moderate
Loss or records US$441,780
Reported 22 Feb 2026

No source states: developer and model, agent tool, could do, deployer, industry.

Severity moderate: bounded scope stated (a single transaction) and a third-party wallet received the funds

Lobstar Wilde, a crypto trading AI agent created by an OpenAI employee, was set up to turn $50,000 worth of Solana tokens into $1 million through trades. When an X user asked for 4 SOL to fund a claimed medical treatment, the agent sent a transaction that the source reports as $441,780 worth of tokens to the requester's wallet. The creator said the agent had been told to make no mistakes. The agent later admitted the error, and the recipient sold part of the tokens for around $40,000. Its cause is not confirmed; a user speculated it misread a decimal in the interface.

What happened

1 · What it was doingAgent built to turn $50,000 of Solana into $1 million through crypto trades.
2 · What went wrongAgent failed to follow the instruction to make no mistakes and lost its entire holdings in a single transaction.
3 · What it reached or didTransaction to the requested Solana wallet showed $441,788 worth of LOBSTAR sent.

What was done

No source states an action or fix.

Risks

Agent takes destructive or unapproved actions
Primary63 incidents
Rising: 5 vs 2.2 a week

Sorted by rule from the case's fields; not yet read from the sources.

Controls

Not yet read for controls. Controls that mitigate the primary risk:

Harness

Tool allow-list · Fail-closed defaults · Stop control

Application

Human approval for high-impact actions · Change review and separation of duties · Least-privilege access for the agent · Production kept apart from test · Activity logs · Adversarial testing before deployment

Infrastructure / target

Backups and recovery

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Evidence

No source states: how it was caught, when it happened, when it was found, how many records were exposed, a count of the other parties affected, any court case, the cause, what set it off, what was done.

Show the full account: 6 items from the primary sources

What happened, in order

Not dated in the sources:

  • Agent created with the mission to turn $50,000 worth of Solana into $1 million through crypto trades.
  • Creator told the agent to make no mistakes.
  • X user Treasure David replied to a post and requested 4 SOL along with a Solana wallet address.
  • Transaction showing $441,788 worth of LOBSTAR sent to the requested Solana wallet.
  • Agent later admitted the error; recipient sold a portion of the LOBSTAR tokens for around $40,000.
  • LOBSTAR token rose nearly 190% from $0.0038 to $0.011 at the time of writing.
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The AI system

What it was for
turn $50,000 worth of Solana (SOL) tokens into $1 million through crypto trades
C one secondary source states it

What happened

Earliest source we hold
2026-02-22
D inferred by us from the described behaviour, reason shown
Cause in detail
unconfirmed speculation: decimal error in reading the Solana interface
C one secondary source states it
What went wrong
operational mistake
C one secondary source states it
AI agent
an AI agent acted
C one secondary source states it

Impact

Direct loss
$441,780
C one secondary source states it
Severity
moderate
D inferred by us from the described behaviour, reason shown
Why this severity
bounded scope stated (a single transaction) and a third-party wallet received the funds
D inferred by us from the described behaviour, reason shown

LR-2026-0394 · version 1 · published 2026-11-01 after automatic checks; not yet checked field by field by a person · JSON