Open-source AI assistant ClawdBot founder Peter Steinberger has said that he has never issued a token and that any crypto projects claiming his involvement are scams, after his GitHub and X accounts were taken over during a forced rename.<\/p>\n
The incident has triggered a fresh wave of debate about meme coins built around viral tech projects and how attention around open-source software often spills into speculative trading without developer consent.<\/p>\n
Steinberger, who recently renamed the project Moltbot due to trademark issues, said an error during the rename process allowed crypto scammers to squat on his GitHub and X accounts.<\/p>\n
In several posts on X, he asked<\/a> crypto users to stop \u201charassing\u201d him and said he is working with GitHub to recover access.<\/p>\n \u201cI will never do a coin,\u201d he wrote. \u201cAny project that lists me as coin owner is a SCAM.\u201d<\/p>\n He also added that he will not accept token-related fees and that such claims are damaging the project.<\/p>\n The situation unfolded as trading interest grew around CLAWD, a Solana-based meme coin launched via pump.fun, that some traders loosely tied<\/a> to ClawdBot. Several crypto accounts promoted the token, while others pushed back.<\/p>\n On January 25, researcher Stitchdegen stressed<\/a> that CLAWD is not an official token and confirmed Steinberger had denied any involvement in the project. Software developer Ozmen wrote on January 27 that similar scams hit<\/a> many open-source projects once they gain visibility, advising founders to clearly state non-involvement and ignore the noise.<\/p>\n However, not all reactions were sympathetic. Crypto trader Kotonono Tsumugi criticized<\/a> Steinberger\u2019s supposedly anti-crypto stance in a January 27 post, while meme coin enthusiast Latuche joked that the harassment would never fully stop. Meanwhile, tech commentator Robert Scoble said<\/a> he has also turned down token requests, adding that there are other ways to fund projects that do not involve coins.<\/p>\n The ClawdBot dispute follows a pattern seen across crypto, where viral ideas or public figures become raw material for fast-moving tokens. Earlier this month, AI-themed meme coin RALPH fell<\/a> about 80% after a wallet linked to its developer sold roughly $300,000 in tokens, sparking a public argument over trust and alignment. In that case, the developer said he did not consent to the token\u2019s creation, a claim that did little to calm traders.<\/p>\n Warnings from industry figures have also grown louder. On January 13, former Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao criticized traders for treating casual posts as investment signals and warned<\/a> them that buying meme coins inspired by his jokes would likely lead to losses.<\/p>\n For Steinberger, the focus remains on software, not speculation. According to him, ClawdBot is a young hobby project with \u201csharp edges\u201d that is meant to inspire builders, not generate financial pressure.<\/p>\n The post Moltbot Founder Warns of Fake CLAWD Meme Coin Scams<\/a> appeared first on CryptoPotato<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Open-source AI assistant ClawdBot founder Peter Steinberger has said that he has never issued a token and that any crypto projects claiming his involvement are scams, after his GitHub and X accounts were taken over during a forced rename. The incident has triggered a fresh wave of debate about meme coins built around viral tech […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":130377,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-130376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-discovery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130376"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=130376"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130376\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/130377"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=130376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=130376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=130376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}A Familiar Pattern in Meme Coin Speculation<\/h2>\n