Claw Wallet: Let Agent's on-chain assets no longer run naked

In 2026, many people referred to this year as the inaugural year of Agentic Finance. Through OpenClaw, Agents can automatically arbitrage, trade, and execute complex DeFi operations, effectively becoming users' personal money printers.

But the fantasy shattered quickly.

In February, OpenAI employee Nik Pash developed a crypto trading AI agent named "Lobstar Wilde" using the OpenClaw framework. While handling a request for help from a user (who needed only 4 SOL for medical expenses), due to a quantity parsing error, it transferred all 52.43 million LOBSTAR tokens it held in one go.

At that time, the market value was about $250,000, and after the subsequent rise in token prices, it was worth nearly $600,000. Within 15 minutes of the transfer, all tokens were sold off, realizing about $40,000 in cash. However, the overall loss reached several hundred thousand dollars. This was a typical case of AI autonomous execution going out of control: it was not a hacker intrusion, nor a smart contract vulnerability, but the Agent itself "misunderstood" and sent all the money out.

The black market quickly replicated this logic. According to media reports, black and gray markets utilized the command execution characteristics of OpenClaw, using simple language to induce AI to autonomously complete wallet transfers. Some users "unwittingly had hundreds of thousands in assets stolen," including stablecoins like USDT, with transaction records difficult to trace, and once authorized, it was nearly impossible to recover. The China Internet Finance Association also issued a notice, listing "fund loss risk" as one of the four core risks of OpenClaw, clearly stating that malicious attackers with high permissions could directly steal user funds.

This is not a bug in a specific smart contract; it is a systemic risk in the Agent's operating environment. A single parsing error or a phrase disguised as a normal command can lead the Agent to make irreversible on-chain operations, clearing everything.

Agents are becoming increasingly active on-chain, but the infrastructure to protect them is still far from ready.

The market is racing, and accidents are racing too

At the beginning of 2026, the daily active AI Agents on-chain surpassed 250,000, a year-on-year increase of over 400%. 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 may account for 30% of on-chain transaction volume.

Now let's look at the accidents:

• November 2024, a user asked ChatGPT to help write a Pump.fun trading bot, and the AI recommended a phishing API. Thirty minutes later, the wallet was emptied, resulting in a loss of $2,500. In the same month, the trading terminal DEXX was hacked due to plaintext key management, with about $21 million stolen and nearly a thousand people affected, with compensation still far off.

• By the end of 2025, the trading bot DeBot wallet was suspected to be hacked, with 250,000 USDT quickly transferred.

• In March 2026, a commonly used library by AI developers, litellm (downloaded 95 million times a month), was poisoned in the supply chain, with malicious code automatically stealing cryptocurrency wallets and cloud credentials. Karpathy personally posted a warning.

The cases are fragmented, but the core issue pointed to is singular:

From script bots to Agent Trading, a more mature wallet infrastructure is needed. In a track valued at tens of billions of dollars in the coming years, most players choose to dive in without proper protection for convenience.

This is the reality we see. It is also the problem we, along with many leaders in the Web3 security industry, hope to solve.

What is Claw Wallet?

If Metamask represents the To C wallet and Privy represents the To B wallet, then Claw Wallet aims to be the best To A wallet: a payment infrastructure that fully supports autonomous activities of Agents while ensuring security.

• Shard Isolation: Isolating private keys is a basic operation. But Claw Wallet goes further—through proven key sharding technology, assets are jointly managed by the Agent, risk control strategies, and users, along with redundant backups, providing additional disaster fault tolerance.

• Interactive Security: Users can customize risk control schemes, precisely controlling sending addresses, interaction addresses, amounts, transaction frequencies, and signature strategies. Non-professional users need not worry—strict default schemes will automatically intercept malicious contracts and phishing signatures.

• User-Friendly: Supports various creation methods; Agents can be installed independently with one click or easily bound to human users. For high-frequency trading and information scraping scenarios, it provides fully automated modes and SDKs, allowing advanced users to quickly integrate in various scenarios.

Why do we choose to do the harder thing?

To be frank, many wallets currently just hand the private keys directly to the Agent and add a whitelist. We strongly advise against using these solutions.

Some wallets that focus more on security at least implement private key isolation and sandbox execution, a direction we generally agree with. But for us, it is still not enough.

The reason is simple: Agent behavior is dynamic.

It does not repeat the same operations every day; it makes different decisions based on market conditions, on-chain status, and strategy parameters. A carefully constructed malicious contract can completely bypass static rule restrictions.

Private key security is just the most basic part. Dynamic interactive security is the core that determines whether the Agent can cover asset losses.

Claw Wallet chooses to implement risk control at the strategy level—understanding the contextual behavior of the Agent and assessing whether a transaction is reasonable before execution. It is not about stopping losses after the fact, but about preventing them beforehand.

Technically, private keys are split into multiple encrypted shards, held by sandbox, backend, and user-side security processes. Any signing operation must meet two conditions simultaneously: strategy verification passed + 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 is not a one-size-fits-all solution. For the most active on-chain scenarios of Agents, we have made targeted designs:

• DeFi Yield Automation: Agents move funds between various protocols to maximize yields, with risks stemming from excessive authorization and contract vulnerabilities. Claw Wallet's approach: refined risk control + anomaly behavior circuit breaker, allowing Agents to operate only within the approved protocol range, with deviations immediately paused.

• Perpetual Contracts/Automated Trading: Extremely high requirements for private key security, with losses occurring in seconds if leaked. Claw Wallet employs isolated key management, ensuring private keys are not stored or transmitted in plaintext, with signatures completed in a controlled environment.

• Cross-Chain Asset Operations: Bridge contracts have always been high-risk areas for security incidents. Claw Wallet identifies transaction intentions before signing, automatically intercepting known malicious contracts and suspicious signature requests.

• On-Chain Micropayments/Agent Settlements: The risk of high-frequency small amounts lies in "invisible losses," where each transaction is small but accumulates over time. Claw Wallet provides real-time monitoring and threshold alerts, with abnormal frequencies or flows triggering immediate notifications.

It's time

Every day, over 250,000 active Agents operate on-chain, moving real funds and generating real income. This number continues to grow rapidly.

But growth does not equal maturity. An Agent without security guarantees is not helping you create value; it is helping you accumulate risk.

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

Today, Claw Wallet is officially launched.

Official installation: https://www.clawwallet.cc

Currently, Claw Wallet has established deep cooperation with several institutions, including PIN AI, 0G Labs, Haedal, Navi Protocol, Clawdi, etc., dedicated to comprehensively safeguarding the on-chain security of AI Agents.

Let your Agent take Claw Wallet and set off with peace of mind.

About Claw Wallet

A security wallet truly built for AI Agents

ClawWallet is a professional Web3 security wallet for AI Agents, supporting self-custody multi-chain wallet deployment in 3 seconds, ensuring the secure use of crypto assets within authorized limits through a strategic risk control engine, specifically designed for high-risk on-chain Agent workflow scenarios.