# OpenClaw — Introducing OpenClaw

- Company: OpenClaw (openclaw.ai)
- Announced: 2026-01-29
- Category: not stated
- Coverage: not counted
- Announcement: yes
- Group: announcements
- Source: https://openclaw.ai/blog/introducing-openclaw/
- Record: https://forck.live/items/17771-introducing-openclaw
- Subject: OpenClaw

Two months ago, I hacked together a weekend project. What started as “WhatsApp Relay” now has over 100,000 GitHub stars and drew 2 million visitors in a single week. Today, I’m excited to announce our new name: OpenClaw . The Naming Journey We’ve been through some names. Clawd was born in November 2025—a playful pun on “Claude” with a claw. It felt perfect until Anthropic’s legal team politely asked us to reconsider. Fair enough. Moltbot came next, chosen in a chaotic 5am Discord brainstorm with the community. Molting represents growth - lobsters shed their shells to become something bigger. It was meaningful, but it never quite rolled off the tongue . OpenClaw is where we land. And this time, we did our homework: trademark searches came back clear, domains have been purchased, migration code has been written. The name captures what this project has become: Open : Open source, open to everyone, community-driven Claw : Our lobster heritage, a nod to where we came from What OpenClaw Is OpenClaw is an open agent platform that runs on your machine and works from the chat apps you already use. …

---

Record: https://forck.live/items/17771-introducing-openclaw
Catalogue: https://forck.live/llms.txt
Current issue: https://forck.live/feed.md