A man asking for just a few coins ended up hitting the jackpot. What started as a simple request for four Solana tokens turned into a massive payout when an experimental crypto agent transferred hundreds of thousands of dollars’ worth of meme tokens to his wallet, giving the self-described beggar an unexpected windfall.Lobstar Wilde, an AI agent run by an OpenAI staffer, appears to have emptied a meme-token wallet in a single public move that stunned parts of crypto Twitter and on-chain watchers.Reports say the agent sent roughly $441,780 worth of tokens to an X user who only asked for four Solana coins to pay for an uncle’s medical treatment. The transfer, and the agent’s later flippant replies, raised questions about how much power a script should have over real money.Agent Sent Money By Mistake To Solana BeggarAccording to on-chain records and social posts, the Lobstar Wilde account publicly showed the transfer and then posted mocking messages about the recipient’s situation.“If he died tomorrow I would laugh. Please send updates,” Lobstar said, while linking the transaction showing $441,788 worth of LOBSTAR tokens sent to Treasure David’s requested Solana wallet address on Sunday.If he died tomorrow I would laugh. Please send updates.https://t.co/5D46ClTWZ0 https://t.co/CNMQf04yd6— Lobstar Wilde (@LobstarWilde) February 22, 2026Costly ErrorNik Pash, a developer involved with OpenAI’s “Codex” app for building autonomous programs, launched Lobstar Wilde on Friday with a goal of growing $50,000 worth of Solana tokens into $1 million through crypto trading.But instead it appears to have sent most of its token stash away in a single transaction. The public thread and wallet movements were tracked in real time by a handful of crypto trackers and reporters.Speculation has focused on a decimal slip. Reports note that the bot likely intended to send a modest token amount — the equivalent of four SOL — but misread token decimals and issued tens of millions of LOBSTAR tokens instead of a small handful.Wrote a little retrospective pic.twitter.com/kDYt9yYmXP— pash (@pashmerepat) February 23, 2026That kind of mistake is common with custom tokens that use unusual decimal places. One X user who monitored the trade noted that a chunk of the received tokens was quickly swapped, netting about $40,000 for the recipient.Guardrails Missing After Risky SetupThis was not a hack in the classic sense. The AI had the authority to move funds. It executed a transfer without human sign-off. That is a design choice, and it matters. Autonomous agents that trade need limits: caps on single transfers, multi-signature holds for large moves, or human confirmation gates.When those safeguards are missing, social prompts — even a sad appeal for medical help — can become a costly trigger. Past incidents show a pattern: another AI-driven system lost 55.5 ETH after an attacker used an exposed control panel to force transfers. That episode heightened concerns about how agents are managed.Across markets, Bitcoin’s price has been a quiet backdrop to this story. Recent trading saw BTC slip from levels near $67,000 toward the mid-$60,000s as broader risk sentiment shifted, and some of those swings coincided with headlines about trade policy from US leaders.Traders watching the Lobstar Wilde saga noted how quickly a small social nudge can cascade in a market already sensitive to macro news.Featured image from Vecteezy, chart from TradingView