AI sensation Clawdbot has taken the tech group by storm with the open-source, 24/7 private assistant being in comparison with an actual life model of Iron Man’s Jarvis.
The crypto crowd is amongst the keenest adopters, trying to put the bot to work for simple wins on platforms corresponding to Hyperliquid and Polymarket.
However its creator, Peter Steinberger, has already had sufficient of “crypto folks,” informing them “I will never do a coin.”
He manufacturers any mission claiming his involvement a “SCAM” and insists he won’t settle for any charges.
The crypto group is “harassing” him, and damaging the mission, Steinberger claims.
Clearly undeterred, and true to the permissionless ethos of crypto, a memecoin had beforehand been launched on Solana.
The token’s chart reveals a typical memecoin pump-and-dump sample, with a serious selloff starting yesterday. It’s at present down 96% within the final 24 hours.
Clawd sheds its shell
Steinberger additionally got here below strain, from Claude’s Anthropic, to vary the bot’s identify. Whether or not the transfer seems to be ill-judged or not, Clawd is now Moltbot, or “Molty” to its associates.
Unsurprisingly, the preliminary X account for the renamed mission “got snatched by crypto shills,” Steinberger claims. He additionally appealed for assist in getting his GitHub repo again from “crypto scammers.”
The GitHub takeover has since been resolved, with the mission’s X account anticipated to take one other day.
A spot in Clawd’s armor
Whereas the enthusiastic use of Clawdbot skyrocketed, some security-minded observers started to fret. Crypto safety agency SlowMist highlighted a widespread threat with using Clawdbot linked to “gateway exposure.”
Citing analysis from DVuln founder Jamieson O’Reilly, SlowMist explains that “hundreds of API keys and private chat logs are at risk. Multiple unauthenticated instances are publicly accessible, and several code flaws may lead to credential theft and even remote code execution (RCE).”
One commentator as an alternative made gentle of the hazard, mentioning the chance it offered to down-bad crypto merchants.
