A trader handed full control of his crypto wallet to an AI.
The result? You can't imagine. 😅
This story has been making the rounds lately.
An AI agent called #Clawdbot was given unrestricted access to a wallet with a simple mission on paper:
➡️ turn it into $1 million.
The setup looked impressive:
• 25 strategies executed
• 3,000+ reports processed
• 12 new algorithms built
• Continuous scanning of X (Twitter)
• Technical indicators generated in real time
And yet… total loss.
This wasn’t a bug.
It wasn’t “bad market conditions.”
It was a design flaw.
AI can analyze, compute, and optimize.
But it doesn’t know when to stop.
It doesn’t feel risk.
It doesn’t truly understand narratives, manipulation, or human psychology.
👉 Autonomy without accountability is dangerous, especially in finance.
This experiment doesn’t prove that AI is useless.
It proves that AI without human supervision is a loss accelerator.
In Web3, we too often confuse:
> automation with intelligence
> speed with understanding
> autonomy with maturity
AI is an excellent copilot.
But giving it the cockpit, the fuel, and the destination?
That’s a very different conversation.
The real question isn’t “Can AI trade?”
It’s:
Are we ready to hand over responsibility for our financial decisions?
Curious to hear your thoughts 👇