Decoding Clanker ignites a new narrative of Base ecosystem AI Agents.

Author: Climber, Golden Finance

Clanker has recently gained a lot of popularity, not only redirecting market attention to the Base ecosystem, but also making AI Agents the next main narrative in the eyes of analysts.

Clanker’s emergence also brought a large number of follows to Farcaster again, with the protocol founder Dan Romero even saying he wants to create a hundred Clanker opportunities. At the same time, a group of popular memes coins has emerged through Clanker, and the market capitalization continues to pump.

Many people regard Clanker as the social version of Pump.fun, plus AI Agents narrative, it seems that the product will become the next wealth password. So what exactly is Clanker? Can ordinary users participate in the launch coin? What are the other popular AI Agents related meme projects worth following on the Base ecosystem?

1. How to play Clanker?

Simply put, Clanker is an AI program that can help users launch Token. Users just need to @ Clanker on the Farcaster client such as Warpcast or Supercast, and then write out the Token requirements to be deployed, and it will launch Token for users on Base.

The application was developed by Jack Dishman, a full-stack engineer at Farcaster, and the founder of the Farcaster ecosystem, @proxystudio.eth. According to the founder of Farcaster, Clanker is based on the Large Language Models (LLM), which can detect user content and also support images and other functions, leveraging the distribution advantage of Warpcast.

In the latest official documentation of @proxystudio.eth, it provides new additions and explanations for Clanker.

Clanker is an autonomous agent for deploying Token. Currently, users can request Clanker to deploy ERC-20 Token on Base by tagging @Clanker on Farcaster.

The only requirement for using Clanker is to have a Farcaster account with a good Neynar user rating. The Neynar user rating is generated based on the user’s behavior on the platform, ranging from 0 to 1, and can be obtained by interacting with high-quality users.

Each Farcaster account can request Clanker to deploy a Token every day. When deploying a Token, users need to mention Clanker (@clanker) in the broadcast on Farcaster and provide the Token name, Token code, and optional image/gif in the broadcast body.

Clanker will respond to user requests in the following three scenarios:

After successful deployment, Clanker will respond with a link to its website clanker.world, which includes a link to the Token page of the already deployed Token.

2. If Clanker is unsure about the request, Clanker will ask for clarification questions to determine whether the requester wants to deploy the Token and to confirm the Token name and code.

3. If the requester is unable to deploy the Token for various reasons (such as reaching the Token deployment limit, the requester’s low Neynar user score, or being banned from using clanker).

Specific examples include warpcast user @artlu’s post @Clanker, which mentions the name of the Token as BURROTI and the Token symbol as BURRITO, accompanied by a picture of a Mexican burrito. Clanker not only helped launch the Token successfully but also interacted with it.

Token Deployment:

And after receiving a valid Token deployment request, Clanker will deploy the ERC-20 Token on Base by calling the contract:

Initial Token minting: mint a new ERC-20 Token for the deployer contract.

Uniswap V3 pool creation: The initial starting value of Uniswap V3 pool is approximately $30,000.

Provide Liquidity to the pool: ERC-20 Token is sent from the deployer contract to the Uniswap V3 non-fungible Position Manager to add one-sided Liquidity to the pool.

Liquidity lock: Then send the LP Non-fungible Token to the LP lock contract, with a preset default lock-up period.

Fee structure and rewards:

When Clanker deploys Token, it will launch a Uniswap V3 pool on Base with a protocol fee of 1%. With each transaction of each Token, 1% of each exchange in the pool will be collected and redistributed as a reward:

60% of the swap fee - protocol (Clanker)

40% exchange fee - Requester (user requesting the deployment of Token by Clanker)

Creating Tokens on Clanker is free, and creators can receive 40% of the Uniswap LP fees for the Tokens they request. Therefore, the larger the volume, the more ownership users will have in the Token, and the more ETH rewards they will receive.

2. Popular memes about Base Ecology AI Agents

As of writing, Clanker has issued a total of 4339 Tokens, generating over $7 million in revenue.

According to the data provided by user @0xluc on the Dune platform, Clanker had the highest average daily earnings during the period from November 20th to 26th, and showed a continuous rise trend.

According to Dexscreener data, the current market capitalization of memesCLANKER, the Clanker app, is approximately $87.5 million, with a coin price of $87.54 and a 15.95% decrease in the past 24 hours.

In addition to CLANKER, there are two popular memes derived from Clanker applications: ANON and LUM.

ANON is a social application product created by Polish developer woj (@wojtekwtf) in October this year based on Farcasterprotocol. It supports users to post anonymously through the SuperAnon account with zk proof technology.

Later, an anonymous user successfully interacted with Clanker through the Superanon account and successfully issued a MEME coin named ANON. The subsequent interaction between woj and the community also made ANON gradually famous.

On November 26th, Dan Romero, co-founder of Farcaster, announced that Anoncast, a social app based on Zero-Knowledge Proof technology, has launched a new feature that allows users to prove their authorship while remaining anonymous when posting.

And ANON became the first token Vitalik purchased on Base.

The current market capitalization of ANON is approximately $34.2 million, with a coin price of $0.0034, and a 10% decrease in the past 24 hours.

LUM is a Token issued by the collaboration of two AI Agents, Aethernet and Clanker. A Farcaster user has deployed Token using Clankerissuance through the AI agent Aethernet in the Higher community.

The current Market Cap of LUM is approximately $41.6 million, with a coin price of $41.64 and a 24-hour decline of 10.91%.

In addition to the above MEME, other popular AI Agents related projects in the Base ecosystem include:

VIRTU

Virtu is an AI agent designed to strengthen the Virtuals ecosystem on BaseBlock. It provides tools to support the development and adoption of technical solutions in the Virtuals ecosystem, including functions for managing and optimizing digital assets.

AIXBT

AIXBT is an AI Agent released by @0rxbt on @virtuals_io, which can fetch data from multiple sources and over 400+ KOLs and spit out real-time information. If the user holds more than 600000 AIXBT Token, they can also directly access the AIXBT terminal.

LUNA

Luna is an AI virtual idol and live agent on TikTok created by the AI Agent Virtual Protocol on the Base, with memory and interactive functions. The intelligent body of Virtuals Protocol is a virtual companion called AI-dol band, including Luna (lead singer), Olyn and Iona.

BUG

On November 26th, Clanker encountered a technical glitch while processing user SantaClanker Tokenmint requests, resulting in the accidental creation of a Token named BUG. Subsequently, this Token gained popularity.

Summary

Clanker can be said to be filled with hot concept buffs: AI Agents+Web3 social+meme, and the way of producing memes is closer to daily life than Pump.fun, especially the AI agent generation attribute is more creative. However, in terms of the current scale, it is still far from Pump.fun, and there are also restrictions on the number and threshold of coins launched, so Clanker still needs to improve its own functionality.