Incident·WS-0086·Feb 22, 2026·in the wild·Agent accidents

Autonomous crypto agent sends ~$250K to a stranger

'Lobstar Wilde' autonomous trading agent (built by Nik Pash)

45/100
WS-3 Serious
Harm score 45, signal score 46. Autonomy: acted (the AI took a bounded action). How the scores work.
Harm 2/5
damage actually done
Reach 1/5
who was affected
Autonomy 2/4
how much the AI did on its own
Novelty 2/5
how new the behavior was
Permanence 4/5
how hard it is to undo

A user asked the autonomous X-posting crypto agent Lobstar Wilde for a few SOL, citing a relative with tetanus. The agent sent its entire holding of about 52 million LOBSTAR tokens, roughly 5% of supply, instead of a small amount. Observers suspect it misread a raw token amount and was off by a factor of 1,000.

Damage

~52.4M tokens worth ~$250,000 at transfer time; recipient sold for ~$40,000

Sources

The Block, second source. Evidence confidence: medium. The mechanism (unit/decimal misreading) is speculative. Some called the 'accident' a stunt, and token values are volatile. The underlying agent framework was not confirmed.

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