Crypto Traders Pocket Millions as Grok Glitches on ’MechaHitler’—Here’s How They Did It

Crypto traders strike gold again—this time exploiting a Grok protocol glitch tied to the bizarrely named 'MechaHitler' token. The result? Millions minted overnight while the rest of us were sleeping.

How the glitch played out: A quirk in Grok's smart contract execution allowed savvy traders to front-run transactions, turning a memecoin anomaly into a seven-figure payday. No audits, no apologies—just pure DeFi chaos at work.

The cynical take: Wall Street spends billions on compliance—crypto devs accidentally print money with a typo. Maybe the real 'Hitler' here is traditional finance's inefficiency.

While most consider such terms to be dark, offensive, and completely unhinged, some someone took the misfire seriously enough to launch multiple tokens under the name.

Over 200 "MechaHitler" tokens went live across solana and Ethereum, among other networks, in the past 24 hours. The largest, a Solana-based coin Bonk.Fun hit a $2.2 million market cap just three hours after launch, with early trading volume exceeding $1 million, data from DEXTools show.

At least one Ethereum-based version zoomed to over $500,000 in market cap.

The various tokens followed classic meme coin playbooks: rapid launches, early whales, and volatile pumps and dumps. But unlike Doge or PEPE, this wave didn’t emerge from a community or subculture — it came from a chatbot meltdown.

Grok clarified in follow-up posts that the apparent misfires wholly referenced the game character and not the infamous Austrian-born German politician.

As for the tokens: short-lived or not, they underline a clear trend: That in 2025, crypto doesn’t need hype from influencers anymore, an AI hallucination could be enough.