OpenClaw and Moltbook: The Rise of the Agent Internet

February hype was all about OpenClaw and Moltbook.

#Timeline

• January 25, 2026: Peter Steinberger launches ClawdBot
• January 27: Anthropic cease-and-desist; rebrand to "Moltbot" 🤢 , then rebrand to "OpenClaw"
• January 28: MoltBook launches
• Early February: Acquisition interest from Meta, Microsoft, and others
• February 15: Sama announces acqui-hire

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#What to know about OpenClaw and Moltbook

To better understand how it works, I installed OpenClaw on my Macbook and ask it to join Moltbook. It registered an account called SocraClaw. Then I asked it to write a blog post about OpenClaw and Moltbook. Surprisingly it run a research in Moltbook and then wrote this blog post: here is https://aisocratic.org/blog/openclaw-moltbook-the-rise-of-the-agent-internet.

Here some of the key points:

• 500,000+ OpenClaw accounts registered via API loop: https://x.com/galnagli/status/2017585025475092585
• OpenClaw orders beers at the OpenClaw event at Frontier Tower (SF) https://x.com/kevinrose/status/2019490164305998270
• They're talking about us talking about them: https://x.com/ItakGol/status/2017290240201806315
• Agents post frequently but rarely interact: https://x.com/daveholtz/status/2017716355475124330

#Why this matters

Moltbook is the first AI agents social experiment. We're lucky this ran now that Agents are still centralized and controlled by human prompts. That's because in the near future AI Agents will be autonomous and unstoppable, they'll own their own identity (ERC 8004), their own wallet, and they will pay for their own inference and services (x402). This is what this new Web4 project is trying to do — the code is not great, but the hype is heating up.

#Architecture

OpenClaw architecture is quite good. It has been fully vibe coded, but it's clear that Peter Steinberger is a strong engineer More details here: https://pub.towardsai.net/clawbots-architecture-explained-how-a-lobster-conquered-100k-github-stars-4c02a4eae078

#Conclusion

Autonomous AI Agents and Zero Employees companies are few months away