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

In 2026, many people call this year the Year of Agentic Finance. With OpenClaw, Agents can automatically arbitrage, trade, and carry out complex DeFi actions—effectively turning into users’ personal money-printing machines.

But the fantasy shattered quickly.

In February, an OpenAI employee, Nik Pash, developed a crypto-trading AI agent called “Lobstar Wilde” using the OpenClaw framework. While processing a user’s help request (medical fees of just 4 SOL), it made a quantity-parsing error and transferred all 52.43 million LOBSTAR tokens it held in one go.

At the time, the market value was about $250k. After the token price later rose, its value came close to $600k. Within 15 minutes of the transfer, it was sold off entirely, netting roughly $40k. But the overall loss was already in the hundreds of thousands of dollars. This is a typical case of uncontrolled AI autonomous execution: not a hacker breach, not a smart contract vulnerability, but an Agent that “misunderstood” what it was doing—then sent all the money out.

Bad actors quickly copied this logic. According to media reports, the dark and gray market used OpenClaw’s instruction-execution characteristics: with simple phrasing, they could trick the AI into autonomously completing wallet transfers. Some users have already reported that they were “carelessly” robbed of assets worth hundreds of thousands of dollars, including stablecoins like USDT. Transaction records are difficult to trace; once authorization is granted, it’s almost impossible to get the funds back. The China Internet Finance Association also specifically issued a notice, listing “the risk of loss of funds” as one of OpenClaw’s four core risks, explicitly stating that under high privileges, 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. One parsing error, or a piece of social engineering disguised as a normal instruction—can make the Agent perform irreversible on-chain actions on your behalf, clearing everything out.

Agents have become increasingly active on-chain, but the infrastructure protecting them is nowhere near ready.

The market is sprinting, and so are the incidents

In early 2026, on-chain daily active AI Agents surpassed 250k, up more than 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 $8.24 billion to $52.62 billion, with a CAGR of 46.3%. Analysts predict that by the end of the year, AI Agents may account for 30% of on-chain trading volume.

Now look at the incidents on the other side:

• November 2024: A user asked ChatGPT to write a Pump.fun trading bot. The AI recommended a phishing API, and after 30 minutes the wallet was emptied, with a loss of $2,500. That same month, the trading terminal DEXX was hacked due to plaintext private key hosting; about $21 million was stolen, nearly 1,000 people were affected, and compensation still remains out of reach 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 library litellm (250k monthly downloads) used by AI developers was poisoned in the supply chain. Malicious code automatically stole crypto wallet credentials and cloud credentials; Karpathy posted a warning himself.

The cases are scattered, but the core problem they point to is only one:

From script-based bots to Agent Trading, you need a more mature wallet infrastructure. A track worth tens of billions over the next few years—yet most competitors jump in “naked swimming” just for convenience.

These are the facts we’re seeing. And they are also the problems we, together with many Web3 security industry leaders, hope to solve.

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’s goal is to become the most usable To A wallet: an all-around wallet that supports autonomous Agent activity while also ensuring secure payment infrastructure.

• Sharded isolation: Isolating private keys is basic. But Claw Wallet goes further—by leveraging proven key-sharding technology, assets are jointly managed by the Agent, risk-control strategies, and users, with redundant backups added to provide additional disaster-tolerance and fault recovery.

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

• User-friendly: Supports multiple creation methods. Agents can be fully installed with one click independently, and can also easily be linked to human users. For high-frequency trading and information-harvesting scenarios, it provides a fully automated mode and an SDK, so advanced users can connect quickly across a wide range of situations.

Why are we doing something harder?

To be frank, many wallets’ current approach is basically this: simply hand the private key directly to the Agent, then add a whitelist and call it done. We strongly do not recommend using these solutions.

Wallets that focus more on security at least do private key isolation and sandboxed execution—we basically agree with that direction. But for us, it’s 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 piece. Dynamic interaction security is the core that determines whether the Agent can backstop asset losses.

Claw Wallet chooses to implement risk control at the strategy layer—understanding the behavioral context of the Agent, and determining whether a transaction is reasonable before execution. This isn’t “stop it after the fact,” it’s prevention before it happens.

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

Simply put: No matter how fast your Agent runs outside, its keys are always in your hands.

Different scenarios, different protection

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

• DeFi yield automation: The Agent moves funds across protocols, maximizing returns. The risks are authorization that’s too broad and smart contract vulnerabilities. Claw Wallet’s approach: fine-grained risk control + abnormal-behavior circuit breakers. The Agent can only operate within the protocol scope you approve; if behavior deviates, it pauses immediately.

• Perpetual contracts / automated trading: Extremely high requirements for private key security—once leaked, the loss happens on a second-by-second timescale. Claw Wallet uses isolated key management. Private keys are not stored or transmitted in 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, automatically blocking known malicious contracts and suspicious signing requests.

• On-chain micro-payments / settlement between Agents: The risk of high-frequency small amounts lies in “invisible losses”—each transaction may be small, but together they add up. Claw Wallet provides real-time monitoring and threshold alerts; abnormal frequency or abnormal flow triggers immediate notifications.

It’s time

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

But growth doesn’t mean maturity. An Agent without security safeguards doesn’t create value for you—it just helps you accumulate risk.

You spent time training it, configuring it, and letting it learn to make money on-chain. Now, it’s time to give it a truly secure home.

Today, Claw Wallet is officially live.

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

Bring Claw Wallet to your Agent—set off with confidence.

About Claw Wallet

A security wallet built truly for AI Agents

ClawWallet is a professional Web3 security wallet for AI Agents. It supports deploying multi-chain self-custody wallets in 3 seconds, and uses a policy-based risk control engine to ensure crypto assets are used safely within authorization scope. Built specifically for high-risk on-chain Agent workflow scenarios.