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

In 2026, many people call this year the first year of Agentic Finance. With OpenClaw, Agents can automatically arbitrage, trade, and execute complex DeFi operations—basically turning into users’ personal money-printing machines.

But the fantasy falls apart quickly.

In February, an AI trading agent called “Lobstar Wilde,” developed by OpenAI employee Nik Pash using the OpenClaw framework, was handling a message from a user requesting help (just 4 SOL in medical expenses). Due to a quantity parsing error, it transferred all 52.43 million LOBSTAR tokens it held in one go.

At that time, its market value was about $250,000. After the token price later increased, the value approached $600,000. Within 15 minutes of the transfer, it was fully sold off—realizing about $40,000. However, the overall loss had already reached hundreds of thousands of dollars. This is a typical case of AI autonomous execution going out of control: not a hacker intrusion, not a smart contract vulnerability, but the Agent itself “misunderstanding”—and sending all the funds away.

Criminal entities quickly replicated this logic. According to media reports, black and gray industries exploit OpenClaw’s instruction execution capabilities and simple language to induce AI agents to autonomously perform wallet transfers. Some users have been “careless and had hundreds of thousands of assets stolen,” including stablecoins like USDT. Transaction records are difficult to trace; once authorized, it’s nearly impossible to recover the funds. The China Internet Finance Association also issued an official notice, listing “fund loss risk” as one of the four core risks of OpenClaw, explicitly stating that under high permissions, malicious attackers can directly steal user funds.

This is not a bug in some smart contract; it is a systemic risk inherent in the Agent’s runtime environment itself. A single parsing error or a piece of persuasive language disguised as a normal instruction can cause the Agent to perform irreversible on-chain operations on your behalf, draining everything.

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

The market is racing forward, and so are the accidents

At the beginning of 2026, the number of on-chain daily active AI Agents exceeded 250,000, a year-over-year increase of over 400%. 68% of new DeFi protocols have integrated autonomous AI Agents. The global AI Agent market is projected to grow from $8.04 billion to $52.62 billion, with a CAGR of 46.3%. Analysts predict that by the end of the year, AI Agents may handle up to 30% of on-chain transaction volume.

Now, look at the other side—the incidents:

• November 2024: A user asked ChatGPT to help write a Pump.fun trading bot. The AI recommended a phishing API; 30 minutes later, the wallet was drained, with a loss of $2,500. In the same month, the trading platform DEXX was hacked because private keys were stored in plaintext; approximately $21 million was stolen, affecting nearly 1,000 users, and compensation remains far from being resolved.

• Late 2025: A DeBot trading bot wallet was suspected to have been hacked; 250,000 USDT was quickly transferred out.

• March 2026: The widely used library litellm (with 95 million downloads per month) was poisoned in a supply chain attack. Malicious code automatically stole crypto wallets and cloud credentials; Karpathy personally issued a warning via a post.

These cases are scattered, but they all point to a single core issue:

From script bots to Agent trading, a more mature wallet infrastructure is needed. This is a track worth billions of dollars in the coming years, yet most participants choose to dive in and swim naked for convenience.

These are the facts we observe. And they are the problems we—together with many leaders in the Web3 security industry—hope to solve.

What is Claw Wallet?

If Metamask is the representative consumer wallet, and Privy is the representative enterprise wallet, then Claw Wallet aims to become the best To A wallet: a comprehensive payment infrastructure supporting Agent autonomous activities while ensuring security.

• Sharded isolation: Isolating private keys is fundamental. But Claw Wallet goes further—using proven key sharding technology, assets are jointly managed by the Agent, risk-control strategies, and the user, with redundant backups providing additional disaster tolerance.

• Interaction security: Users can customize risk-control plans, precisely controlling destination addresses, interaction addresses, amounts, transaction frequency, and signing strategies. Non-professional users need not worry—strict default settings automatically block malicious contracts and phishing signatures.

• User-friendly: Supports multiple creation methods. Agents can be installed independently with one click or easily bound to human users. For high-frequency trading and data scraping scenarios, it offers fully automated modes and SDKs, enabling advanced users to quickly integrate across various scenarios.

Why do we undertake more difficult tasks?

Frankly, many current wallets simply do this: hand over the private key directly to the Agent, add a whitelist, and that’s it. We strongly advise against using such solutions.

Wallets that emphasize security at least implement private key isolation and sandbox execution—this direction we generally agree with. But for us, it’s still not enough.

The reason is simple: An Agent’s behavior is dynamic.

It doesn’t perform the same operations every day; it makes different decisions based on market conditions, on-chain status, and strategy parameters. A carefully crafted malicious smart contract can easily bypass static rule restrictions.

Private key security is only the most basic layer. Dynamic interaction security is the core factor that determines whether an Agent can cover asset losses.

Claw Wallet chooses to implement risk control at the strategy layer—understanding the context of the Agent’s behavior and judging whether a transaction is reasonable before execution. This is not about stopping losses after they occur but preventing problems beforehand.

Technically, the private key is split into multiple encrypted shards, held respectively by sandbox, backend, and user-side security processes. Any signing operation must satisfy two conditions simultaneously: passing the policy check + user confirmation.

In simple terms: No matter how fast your Agent operates externally, 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 Agent scenarios, we have designed targeted protections:

• DeFi yield automation: Agents move funds across protocols to maximize returns. Risks include over-permissioning and contract vulnerabilities. Claw Wallet’s approach: fine-grained risk control + automatic circuit breakers for abnormal behaviors. Agents can only operate within approved protocols; if behavior deviates, operations are immediately paused.

• Perpetual contracts / automated trading: These require extremely high private key security; once leaked, losses occur within seconds. Claw Wallet employs isolated key management—private keys are neither stored nor transmitted in plaintext, and signing occurs within a controlled environment.

• Cross-chain asset operations: Bridge contracts are high-risk points for security incidents. Claw Wallet identifies transaction intent before signing, automatically blocking known malicious contracts and suspicious signing requests.

• On-chain micro-payments / Agent-to-Agent settlements: The risk of high-frequency small transactions is “loss without awareness”; small individual losses accumulate over time. Claw Wallet provides real-time monitoring and threshold alerts; abnormal transaction frequency or suspicious flows trigger instant 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 mean maturity. An Agent without security safeguards is not creating value for you—it’s accumulating risks.

You have spent time training, configuring, and teaching it to earn on-chain—now it’s time to give it a truly secure home.

Today, Claw Wallet is officially launched.

Official website installation:

Currently, Claw Wallet has established deep collaborations with organizations including PIN AI, 0G Labs, Haedal, Navi Protocol, Clawdi, and others, dedicated to comprehensive on-chain security for AI Agents.

Let your Agent carry Claw Wallet and set out with confidence.

About Claw Wallet

A truly secure wallet built for AI Agents

ClawWallet is a professional Web3 security wallet designed for AI Agents. It supports deploying multi-chain self-custody wallets in just 3 seconds, and through a policy-based risk-control engine, ensures crypto assets are used safely within authorized scopes. It is specifically tailored for high-risk on-chain Agent workflows.