Round 1 (Trademark) + Round 2 (Viral) + Moltbox Analysis · Feb 2026
Round 1 was wrong. We scored 13 names on professional naming fundamentals — pronunciation, spelling, cross-cultural safety, trademark clearance. Optimised for boardroom viability. Recommended Softshell — the safest, most boring option.
Meanwhile, the entire internet went insane for a lobster-themed AI ecosystem. OpenClaw hit 145K GitHub stars. Moltbook spawned 1.5M AI agents. Chinese factories shipped Moltbox hardware in 72 hours. NBC, CNN, Bloomberg, NPR covered it. Elon Musk called it “the early stages of singularity.”
Round 2 scores for viral mechanics, meme potential, and cultural-moment fit. The name doesn’t need to be “viable.” It needs to be a cultural weapon.
Molting (ecdysis) is THE fundamental biological process of all crustaceans — lobsters, crabs, shrimp. They shed their entire exoskeleton to grow. Takes ~30 minutes.
An American lobster undergoes 20–25 molts from hatching to sexual maturity. During the molt, the new shell is paper thin — completely vulnerable.
Steinberger: “Anthropic asked us to change our name (trademark stuff), and honestly? Molt fits perfectly — it’s what lobsters do to grow.”
13 candidates scored across 15 naming tests. Every single-word English dictionary name has severe brand collision. Verified Feb 2026.
Stross’s Accelerando predicted Moltbook 20 years early: uploaded lobster consciousness escapes into cyberspace, demands emancipation.
The only name that turns the biggest AI cultural moment of 2026 into free marketing. “The agents got OpenClaw. The humans got RawClaw.”
Timeless. One syllable. THE verb of molting. Works whether it’s 2026 or 2030.
Invented name. Own everything. No trademark collision. Scales forever.
11 of 21 names died on domain availability alone. In brand naming, the domain IS the product — if you can’t own it, you can’t build on it.
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