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The OpenClaw Project.
Cloud / AI Compute — an open-source AI project described as “probably the single most important release of software, probably ever.”
§ Video log
The primary source.
The video below is the log. It contains the reasoning, the citations, and the public statement of the entry. The figures above are derived from it; should it be amended, the entry will be re-stated.
§ Reasoning of record
OpenClaw is the fastest-growing open-source AI project in the public record: 247,000 GitHub stars accrued in sixty days. Its naming chain — Clawdbot → Moltbot → OpenClaw — progressively strips biology from the word until only the branding is left. “Claw” is taken as shorthand for power. “Moult” is discarded.
The actual lobster is in retreat. The Gulf of Maine, the American lobster’s anchor population, is warming 99% faster than the rest of the world’s oceans. The catch is migrating north. The species is not yet IUCN-listed, but its regional population trajectory is the form the ledger records. The base rate (Cloud / AI Compute, 2.0%) records the downstream datacentre load the project drives; the namesake surcharge (+0.5%) records the taking of the name.
§ Calculation