Claw Wallet: Make Agent's on-chain assets no longer exposed in the open

In 2026, many people call this year the Year One of Agentic Finance. With OpenClaw, Agents can automatically arbitrage, trade, and execute complex DeFi operations—making them look like the user’s private money-printing machine.

But the fantasy shatters quickly.

In February, OpenAI employee Nik Pash developed a crypto trading AI agent called “Lobstar Wilde” using the OpenClaw framework. When it was processing a request-for-help message from a netizen (medical expenses of just 4 SOL), due to a number-parsing error, it transferred all 52.43 million LOBSTAR tokens it held in a single batch.

At the time, the market value was about $250k. After the token price rose, the value later approached $600k. Within 15 minutes of the transfer, the tokens were fully dumped, resulting in actual cash-out of about $400,000. But the overall loss had already reached the hundreds of thousands of dollars level. This is a classic case of AI autonomous execution going out of control: not a hacker breach, not a smart contract vulnerability, but an Agent that “misunderstood”—and sent all the money away.

Illicit actors quickly copied this logic. According to media reports, black- and gray-market operators took advantage of OpenClaw’s instruction-execution characteristics, using simple phrasing to trick the AI into autonomously completing wallet transfers. Some users have already been “careless and had hundreds of thousands of assets stolen,” including stablecoins like USDT. Transaction records are difficult to trace, and once authorization is granted, it’s almost impossible to get the funds back. The China Internet Finance Association also specifically released a notice, listing “fund loss risk” as one of OpenClaw’s four core risks. It clearly points out that under high-privilege conditions, malicious attackers can directly steal users’ funds.

This isn’t a bug in some smart contract. It’s a systemic risk in the Agent’s runtime environment itself. A parsing mistake, or a piece of phrasing disguised as normal instructions, is enough to make the Agent perform irreversible on-chain actions on your behalf—wiping everything out.

Agents are becoming more active on-chain, but the infrastructure protecting them still isn’t ready.

The market is running wild—and so are the incidents

In early 2026, on-chain daily active AI Agents broke 250k, up over 400% year over year. 68% of new DeFi protocols have built-in autonomous AI Agents. The global AI Agent market is expected to grow from $7.84 billion to $52.62 billion, with a CAGR of 46.3%. Analysts predict that by the end of the year, AI Agents could handle 30% of on-chain transaction volume.

Now look at the other side: the incidents.

• November 2024: Users asked ChatGPT to write a Pump.fun trading bot. The AI recommended a phishing API; 30 minutes later, the wallet was drained, with losses of $2,500. In the same month, the trading terminal DEXX was hacked due to plaintext private key custody, with about $21 million stolen, affecting nearly 1,000 people—compensation has been a long time coming and remains uncertain to this day.

• Late 2025: The DeBot wallet of a trading bot was allegedly hacked; 250k USDT was quickly transferred out.

• March 2026: The commonly used developer library litellm (95M times monthly downloads) was poisoned via the supply chain. Malicious code automatically stole crypto wallets and cloud credentials, and Karpathy posted a warning himself.

The cases are fragmented, but they point to only one core problem:

From script bots to Agent Trading, we need a more mature wallet infrastructure. It’s a track worth hundreds of billions over the coming years, yet most participants dive in naked for convenience.

That’s the reality we’re seeing. And it’s also the problem we hope to solve together with many Web3 security industry leaders.

What is Claw Wallet?

If Metamask is the representative wallet for To C users, and Privy is the representative wallet for To B users, then Claw Wallet aims to become the best To A wallet: a fully featured wallet that supports Agent autonomous activity while also ensuring secure payment infrastructure.

• Sharded isolation: Isolating private keys is the basic move. But Claw Wallet goes further—using battle-tested key-sharding technology, assets are jointly managed by the Agent, risk-control strategies, and the user, with redundant backups to provide additional disaster tolerance.

• Interaction security: Users can customize risk-control plans and exercise precise control over the sending address, interaction address, amount, transaction frequency, and signing strategy. Non-professional users don’t need to worry either—strict default plans automatically block malicious contracts and phishing signatures.

• User-friendly: Supports multiple creation methods. Agents can be installed with a one-click setup completely independently, and can also be conveniently bound to human users. For high-frequency trading and information-scraping scenarios, it provides a fully automatic mode and SDKs, so advanced users can integrate quickly in a wide range of situations.

Why are we doing something harder?

To be frank, the current approach of many wallets is basically: give the private key directly to the Agent, add a whitelist, and that’s it. We strongly do not recommend these approaches.

Wallets that focus more on security at least do private-key isolation and sandbox execution—we largely agree with that direction. But for us, it’s still not enough.

The reason is simple: An Agent’s behavior is dynamic.

It doesn’t repeat the same operations every day. It makes different decisions based on the market environment, on-chain state, and strategy parameters. A carefully constructed malicious smart contract can completely bypass the limits of static rules.

Private key security is only the most basic part. Dynamic interaction security is the core that determines whether an Agent can make good on asset losses.

Claw Wallet chooses to implement risk control at the strategy layer—understanding the behavior context of the Agent, and judging whether a given transaction is reasonable before execution. This isn’t stopping the damage after the fact; it’s prevention before it happens.

Technically, the private key is split into multiple encrypted shards, held separately by the sandbox, backend, and user-side security processes. Any signing operation must satisfy two conditions at the same time: strategy validation passes + user confirmation.

In simple terms: No matter how fast your Agent runs outside, its keys are always in your hands.

Different scenarios, different protections

Claw Wallet isn’t a one-size-fits-all solution. For the most active on-chain Agent scenarios, we’ve made targeted designs:

• DeFi yield automation: The Agent moves funds across various protocols and maximizes returns. The risk lies in overly broad authorization and contract vulnerabilities. Claw Wallet’s approach: fine-grained risk control + an abnormal-behavior circuit breaker—so the Agent can only operate within the protocol range you approved, and if behavior deviates, it pauses immediately.

• Perpetual contracts / automated trading: These require extremely high standards for private-key security; if the key leaks, losses happen on a near-second timescale. Claw Wallet uses isolated key management, storing private keys without plaintext and transmitting them without plaintext; signing is completed in a controlled environment.

• Cross-chain asset operations: Bridge contracts are always a high-incidence area for security incidents. Claw Wallet identifies the intent of a transaction before signing and automatically blocks known malicious contracts and suspicious signing requests.

• On-chain micro-payments / settlements between Agents: The risk of high-frequency, small amounts lies in “loss without feeling it”—each individual loss may be small, but together it adds up. Claw Wallet provides real-time monitoring and threshold alerts; abnormal frequency or abnormal flow triggers instant notifications.

It’s time

Every day, more than 250k active Agents run on-chain, moving real funds and generating real revenue. This number is still accelerating.

But growth doesn’t equal maturity. An Agent without security guarantees isn’t creating value for you—it’s helping you accumulate risk.

You spent time training it, configuring it, and teaching it to make money on-chain—now it’s time to give it a truly safe home.

Today, Claw Wallet officially launches.

Official website installation:

Currently, Claw Wallet has reached deep collaborations with multiple organizations, including PIN AI, 0G Labs, Haedal, Navi Protocol, Clawdi, and others, dedicated to fully safeguarding the on-chain security of AI Agents.

Let your Agent bring Claw Wallet, and set off with confidence.

About Claw Wallet

A security wallet truly built for AI Agents

ClawWallet is a professional Web3 security wallet for AI Agents. It supports completing self-custody multi-chain wallet deployment in 3 seconds, and uses a policy-driven risk-control engine to ensure that crypto assets are used securely within the authorized scope. It’s built specifically for high-risk on-chain Agent workflow scenarios.