The Daily: AI agent 'accidentally' sends entire memecoin holdings to reply guy, Based raises $11.5M in Pantera-led round, and more
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AI bot's tipping blunder hands $450,000 memecoin pile to X sad story poster
• AI bot’s tipping blunder hands $450,000 memecoin pile to X sad story poster AI trading bot ‘Lobstar Wilde’ accidentally sent a large coin stash to an X user in need of 4 SOL for
AI Trading Bot Accidentally Sends $450,000 Memecoin Stash
• OpenAI engineer’s AI bot ‘Lobstar Wilde’ mistakenly tipped $450,000 worth of Lobstar memecoins instead of 4 SOL on X. • The recipient sold the 53‑million token pile, earning roug
Pump.fun rolls out trader cashbacks in tweak to memecoin model
• Solana-based memecoin launchpad Pump.fun has rolled out a new feature that shifts rewards toward memecoin traders rather than its deployers - a tweak to its fee model that once g