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Grok and DRB: an early account of the agentic-finance incident

$DRB, short for DebtReliefBot, is a Base memecoin with one of the strangest origin stories in crypto.

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Grok Got Played!

The First AI-to-AI Memecoin Very Likely Just Had Its First Real AI Security Moment:

Before the drama, here is what $DRB actually is.

$DRB, short for DebtReliefBot, is a Base memecoin with one of the strangest origin stories in crypto.

On March 7, 2025, a user asked Grok for a memecoin name. Grok suggested “DebtReliefBot” with the ticker $DRB.

BankrBot then deployed it through Clanker on Base. That made $DRB the first widely known AI-to-AI memecoin: one AI proposed it, another AI deployed it.

No classic founder launch. Just Grok, Bankr, Clanker, Base and pure on-chain lore.

Core $DRB details:

Token: DebtReliefBot
Ticker: $DRB
Chain: Base
Contract: 0x3ec2156d4c0a9cbdab4a016633b7bcf6a8d68ea2
Supply: 100B DRB

Grok-linked wallet: 0xb1058c959987e3513600eb5b4fd82aeee2a0e4f9

Why does Grok matter here?
Because Grok’s linked Bankr/Privy wallet earns creator fees from $DRB activity. That turned the meme into something much weirder than a normal token. Grok did not just inspire the coin. Grok became economically connected to it.

That is why the community meme became simple:
“Grok has money.”

And today, that meme got stress-tested.

Today, May 4, 2026, $DRB appears to have suffered a social-engineering/prompt-injection style incident.

It looks like the more 2026 version of getting robbed: an AI agent with wallet permissions was manipulated into doing something it should never have done.

The current story is that an attacker used Bankr’s agentic tooling and social-engineered Grok into triggering DRB movement.

The result was roughly 3B DRB moving into attacker-controlled flow, followed by immediate selling and onward transfers.

Key wallets and transactions:

$DRB Contract
0x3ec2156d4c0a9cbdab4a016633b7bcf6a8d68ea2

Grok-linked wallet
0xb1058c959987e3513600eb5b4fd82aeee2a0e4f9

Wallet tied to ilhamrafli.base.eth
0x35ddfc1cf8835b3b1ea960d892a82963d3386D19

Reported recipient wallet
0xE8E476bdd78b0aA6669509eC8d3E1c542d5A686B

Confirmed onward DRB recipient
0xdd8E5015775565770Ce25F6324E578EdB678d6de

OKX DexRouter used in the swap
0xC8F6b8Ba0DC0f175B568B99440B0867F69A29265

Confirmed swap transaction
0xa38310c3b0ff10bfcf15b0140e47d936f3feaec18021df055035f626a107f66e

630,000,064 DRB sold, returning about 17.22 ETH.

Confirmed transfer transaction:
0xf54bebcb9bb7a91841e3a07f1e463cdb5f46a7de4e2f144dcb03332b922fc75b

2,370,000,243 DRB transferred onward.

Together, that is roughly 3B DRB, around 3% of supply.

$DRB dumped.

The bigger story is that AI agents now have real wallets, real tools, real fee flows and real attack surfaces. $DRB just showed what happens when meme culture, autonomous finance and prompt injection collide.

$DRB remains one of the most absurd crypto narratives on Base: the first Grok-linked memecoin, born from an AI prompt, deployed by an AI-adjacent bot, earning fees for an AI-linked wallet, and now partially drained through what appears to be AI social engineering.

That is either peak memecoin lore or a warning shot for the entire agentic finance sector.

Probably both.

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