Overview
- Creator Peter Steinberger reaffirmed a blanket prohibition on any cryptocurrency references in the official Discord, saying members agreed to strict rules on entry.
- A user who cited Bitcoin block height in a technical context was removed on Saturday, then offered reinstatement after Steinberger reviewed the case.
- The $CLAWD token, falsely linked to the project during a rebrand window, briefly hit about $16 million in market value before plunging more than 90% after Steinberger denied involvement.
- Security researchers reported hundreds of publicly reachable OpenClaw instances without authentication and hundreds of malicious skills, many aimed at crypto traders.
- Steinberger has joined OpenAI and says OpenClaw will transition to an independent foundation as the fast-growing project surpasses roughly 200,000 GitHub stars and tens of thousands of forks.