OpenClaw just passed React as the most-starred software project on GitHub. 250K stars in 4 months, ending React's roughly 13-year run at the top.
To put that in perspective: the Linux kernel has around 195,000 stars after 30+ years on the platform. Kubernetes sits at about 120,000 after nearly a decade. OpenClaw accumulated 190,000 of its stars in the first 14 days of viral growth back in January.
The project now has roughly 1,000 contributors, 13,729 skills on ClawHub, and over 2 million weekly visitors.
But popularity brings attention. Researchers found 30,000+ exposed instances, 341 malicious skills on ClawHub, and CVE-2026-25253 (CVSS 8.8) was patched just days after the star explosion began.
https://clawhosters.com/blog/posts/openclaw-250k-github-stars-surpasses-react
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