The Discord channel of AI agent OpenClaw has has been declared an absolutely no crypto zone. Over the weekend, OpenClaw creator Peter Steinberger confirmed his stance on the situation, clearly stating that those initiating discussions around digital assets on its Discord server could risk facing a ban.
Complaints of individuals losing access to the OpenClaw server for mentioning crypto or Bitcoin had started to make the rounds on social media in these last few days.
At one point, in the midst of these complaints becoming more common on X, Steinberger stepped into the conversation.
“We have strict server rules that you accepted whe you entered the server. No crypto mention whatsoever is one of them,” the Australian developer said replying to one of the complaints.
Fear of crypto, why?
OpenClaw, between November 2025 and February 2026, grew into this agentic AI agent that can be installed onto a device and be enabled to execute simple day-to-day tasks. Somewhere in the middle of this timeline, the platform narrowly dodged a major crash owing to a fake crypto token.
In January this year, Anthropic issued a trademark notice addressed to Steinberger, asking him to rebrand his project that was, at the time, named Clawdbot. Anthropic had said that this name of Steinberger was too similar to Claude, its own LLM model.
Steinberger agreed to remain his project. While making the changes from Clawdbot to OpenClaw on GitHub and X, scammers had reportedly taken control of the older accounts to promote a Solana-based scam token called $CLAWD.
The hype surrounding OpenClaw at the time injected $16 million into the CLAWD token within hours. The token crashed by over 90 percent as soon as Steinberger denied any involvement in its coining or minting.
Steinberger had found himself at the receiving end of major flak for not just endorsing the token.
OpenClaw is working to establish itself as a credible name in the growing AI fabric. Last week, Steinberger announced that he was joining Sam Altman-led OpenAI to collaborate on future AI projects from OpenAI.