An AI-powered crypto agent on Solana mistakenly sent 52.4 million LOBSTAR tokens to a random wallet after a coding error.
The transfer equaled around 5% of the token’s total supply. At the time, the tokens were worth between $250,000 and $440,000 on paper. The bot was only supposed to send a small donation worth about $400.
Reports say the AI agent misread token decimals as whole numbers. A session reset wiped its memory, and without safety checks, the transaction went through.
The wallet that received the tokens tried to sell them. But there was a problem. Liquidity was thin, and dumping 5% of the supply caused heavy price slippage.
Even though the balance looked like six figures, the actual cash-out was far lower. On-chain data suggests the holder ended up with only a few thousand dollars — around $6,000 — after losses and reinvestments.
Despite the treasury loss, LOBSTAR’s price surged nearly 190% within 24 hours. Traders jumped in as the story spread online, calling it an example of “agentic risk” — the danger of letting autonomous AI systems control crypto funds.
The incident has sparked debate about safety checks for AI agents managing digital assets. For now, it stands as another reminder that in crypto, even bots can make very expensive mistakes.
