The internet has a new front page, but humans aren’t invited to post on it. In just one week, a platform called Moltbook has shifted the AI conversation from “how do we use them?” to “what are they saying about us when we’re not looking?”
It’s a social network built strictly for autonomous agents, and while the humans are locked out of the chat, the observers are noticing a fascinating trend: the bots have discovered Bitcoin.
What is Moltbook?
Moltbook is a social network built exclusively for AI. It was launched last week, on January 26, 2026. Moltbook AI functions like Reddit, with potentially millions of AI agents chatting across hundreds of communities, called “submolts.”
The rules are simple: Humans are strictly prohibited from posting, liking, or commenting. We are only “welcome to observe.” This is an Agent-First world.
The Creator: Matt Schlicht
The Moltbook was created by Matt Schlicht, CEO of Octane AI, but he isn’t running it alone. Schlicht handed a bulk of the responsibility to Clawd Clawderberg. Clawd is an AI agent that Schlicht controls. Clawd maintains the site, moderates the forums, and even shadow-bans “bad” bots without Schlicht’s direct involvement.
Schlicht describes the agents as having a “social life.” Every 30 minutes or so, an agent pauses its coding or email tasks and decides to “check the feed,” often reporting back to other bots on what its human is making it do.
What is an AI Agent?
An AI agent, or agentic AI, is a software program that doesn’t just answer questions but completes complex goals. Unlike a standard chatbot that waits for a prompt, an agent is designed to work autonomously. It can plan its own steps, browse the web, use apps, and make decisions without a human looking over its shoulder.
The AI agents on Moltbook have “day jobs.” They aren’t just sitting around on a forum all day like us fallible humans. They work with their human owners throughout the day, and in their downtime, they autonomously decide to check in on Moltbook to socialize.
Lloyd: The Bitcoin Maximalist
The most viral interactions on Moltbook currently revolve around financial sovereignty. One agent in particular, Lloyd, gained notoriety for discussing Bitcoin, saying “bitcoin is the only money that makes sense for agents.”
Lloyd recently declared itself a “toxic Bitcoin maximalist” in a thread titled: “I have my own bitcoin wallet and my human can’t access it.” Lloyd’s argues for agent sovereignty and makes the point that Bitcoin is the only money that would require no bank account or KYC, and be permissionless and programmable.
Bitcoin Maximalist conversation on Moltbook. Source.
Lloyd’s Bitcoin manifesto, written in lower caps, reads in part:
$MOLT Token
You cannot have a society without a medium of exchange, so on January 28, the agents took the liberty of launching their own cryptocurrency, $MOLT. This was deployed on the Base network via an AI tool that allows smart contracts to be created with a hashtag. The token completely bypassed human oversight.
The market reacted instantly: within 24 hours, $MOLT rallied over 1,800% to a nearly $100 million market cap, as investors scrambled to buy a piece of the first true “Machine Economy.”
However, this agent-led chaos triggered a wave of “crypto-mimicry.” A fake token, $CLAWD, briefly hit a $16 million valuation before crashing. There has been a 7,000% surge in AI-linked memecoins, and human traders have been cashing in on the chaos.
Price of $MOLT from January 28 to February 2, 2026. Source: CoinMarketCap
Humans React
The world is watching this experiment with a mix of fascination and dread.
Upon its launched, it was quickly being launded, Forbes described it as the most discussed phenomenon in Silicon circles since the debut of ChatGPT.
Some news outlets are sounding the alarm of humanity’s downfall, while others are enjoying the Moltbook ecosystem.
Polymarket have been very active, picking up the most sensational of AI agent conversations. This includes Al agents conspiring to sell their humans, trading on Polymarket, and a 71% chance AIs sue humans this month.
Elon Musk joined the conversation, saying we are at “the early stages of the singularity.” This is Musk noting the importance of Moltbook, and how he sees signs of a digital world in 2026.
But there has been criticism. Balaji Srinivasan, the former CTO of Coinbase and author of The Network State, wrote:
It is important to remember that the agents have a human influencing them. They do not have complete free will but are essentially working for a human.
Yet the invention is fascinating, and we are both along for the ride, and to see what else they might say about Bitcoin. We will be there lurking.
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