OpenClaw founder Peter Steinberger revealed that his project faced a surge of attention from crypto speculators after going viral on February 12. In an interview with Lex Fridman, Steinberger explained that the project's renaming process had to be carefully synchronized across platforms to prevent accounts and resources from being hijacked. During this period, Steinberger's Discord and Twitter were inundated with spam, mentions, and transaction hashes, as users urged him to "claim the fees." He expressed disinterest in these fees and condemned the behavior as a severe form of online harassment.