- Nik Pash, an OpenAI employee and former Cline executive, funded an automated trading bot called “Lobstar Wilde” with $50,000 worth of Solana.
- After an X user requested 4 SOL for a “tetanus treatment,” the bot accidentally transferred its entire holdings instead of the requested small amount.
- The recipient sold the tokens for approximately $40,000 due to liquidity issues, though the assets were valued at $250,000 at the time of the transfer and later rose to over $420,000.
This is arguably one of the funniest stories in crypto recently due to how absurd it is, though not uncommon in this space (and that says a lot); an automated crypto trading bot, “Lobstar Wilde” accidentally gave away a small fortune to a total stranger on X.
It gets more ridiculous. The bot was built by Nik Pash, an OpenAI employee and former head of AI at coding agent startup Cline, who was fired in December 2025 after posting a comment widely criticised as racist toward Indian developers.
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An Interesting Turn of Events
Pash funded the bot with “50 grand worth of sol,” Pash said on X, while promising to turn it into a millionaire.
“Make no mistakes”, he ironically told the bot, but instead, an X user named “treasure David” replied to one of the bot’s posts with a donation request and a Solana address, claiming his uncle needed tetanus treatment “due to a lobster like you” and asking for 4 SOL.
Lobstar Wilde responded with a transaction link showing it had sent David its entire holdings of Lobstar tokens, about 5% of total supply, worth roughly US$250,000 (AU$353K) at the time.
In a follow-up post, the bot said it tried to send “four dollars” and “accidentally sent him my entire holdings”:
On-chain data indicates David sold the full 53 million-token stack within about 15 minutes, after asking X users for gas money, but realised only around US$40,000 (AU$61K), likely due to liquidity limits while selling quickly. After the incident boosted attention and price, the tokens sold later rose in value to more than US$420,000 (AU$600K).
One user suggested the bot meant to send 52,439 tokens, about 4 SOL, but sent 52.439 million after misunderstanding an API response.
Pump.fun’s X account mocked the episode with a meme about being “too dumb” to ask the bot for “free money,” while critics warned “agent” stories can obscure why money moved and to whom.
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