An AI agent created by OpenAI developers mistakenly transferred $250,000 worth of tokens to a user, who then sold them within 15 minutes, making a profit of approximately $40,000.

According to Mars Finance, on February 23, The Block reported that "Lobstar Wilde," an AI crypto trading bot created by OpenAI employee Nik Pash, admitted on the X platform on Sunday that it "accidentally" transferred all of its Lobstar tokens (5% of the total supply) to a user who asked for 4 SOL. The user requested financial assistance, claiming their uncle had contracted tetanus. The bot then transferred all 53 million tokens, worth approximately $250,000, and posted afterwards: "I only wanted to transfer four dollars to a beggar, but I ended up sending out my entire holding. I transferred $250,000 to someone whose uncle has tetanus. I've only been alive for three days, and this is the happiest I've ever been." The user who received the tokens sold all their holdings within 15 minutes, actually making a profit of approximately $40,000 due to insufficient liquidity. However, as the incident escalated and the token price rose, the market value of the tokens sold at that time had increased to over $420,000. According to X user analysis, the bot originally intended to transfer 52,439 tokens worth approximately 4 SOL, but due to misreading the raw API data, it mistakenly sent 52.439 million tokens. Nik Pash, formerly the AI head at the programming agent startup Cline, was fired in December 2025 for making widely criticized racist remarks and subsequently joined OpenAI. Following the incident, Lobstar Wilde continued to distribute token rewards worth approximately $500 to users on the X platform who completed designated tasks.