If you heard about ClawdBot but don’t quite understand the hype, this article will help:
- An agent project named ClawdBot was released by developer Peter Steinberger, quickly gaining viral traction (Over 60,000 GitHub stars in just a couple of days).
- The frenzy was so high that it reportedly caused a surge in Mac Mini sales, while also driving the Cloudflare stock up over 20% because the project used Cloudflare Workers (~$12 billion increase in market cap).
- Following a trademark request from Anthropic (the name was too close to Claude AI), the project was renamed to MoltBot.
- During the 10-second window while the name was being changed on GitHub by the developer, crypto scammers hijacked the old name.
- The scammers launched a $CLAWD token using the name that reached a $16 million market cap before crashing in 12 hours.
And all of this happened in just 48 hours. We’re truly living in exciting times (!).