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Clanker

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Clanker
Clanker
Image: token logo via CoinGecko / DexScreener listings
tickerCLANKER
blockchainBase
launchedNovember 2024
peak market capabout 143 million dollars (October 2025)

Clanker is the token of an autonomous AI deployer bot on Farcaster that launches ERC20 tokens on Base on request, later acquired by Farcaster itself, with the token peaking near 143 million dollars in October 2025.

Contents
  1. 1 Origin
  2. 2 The mechanic
  3. 3 Market history
  4. 4 Status
  5. 5 References

Clanker (CLANKER) is the token of Clanker, an autonomous AI agent on the Farcaster social network that deploys ERC20 tokens on Base, the Coinbase built Ethereum layer 2. Users tag @clanker in a Farcaster post with a name, ticker, and image, and the bot deploys the token and seeds a tradable pool. CLANKER was the first token the bot ever deployed, making it the reference asset of its own launchpad economy.

Origin

Clanker launched in November 2024, built by Farcaster engineer Jack Dishman and the pseudonymous Farcaster ecosystem developer proxystudio.eth. It arrived as Base's answer to pump.fun, but with a social twist: token creation happened conversationally, inside a feed, through an AI persona with a sardonic robot voice. The CLANKER token itself reached a market capitalization of about 70 million dollars by November 26, 2024, and within four months the bot had deployed over 166 thousand tokens, processed about 2.45 billion dollars in volume, and generated more than 18 million dollars in fees.

The mechanic

Clanker collected a fee on trading in the pools it created, giving the deployer bot real revenue in an era when most AI agent meta projects had none. The project later rebranded the token under the name tokenbot, and roughly 7 percent of supply was permanently locked in a one sided liquidity pool to deepen markets.

Market history

Unusually among 2024 agent tokens, CLANKER set its all time high a year after launch. In October 2025 Farcaster acquired Clanker, announcing that protocol fees would be used to buy and hold CLANKER and that legacy fee vault tokens would be burned. The token rose more than 350 percent on the news, reaching an all time high around 143 dollars on October 26, 2025, an implied market capitalization of about 143 million dollars.

Status

The acquisition pop faded through the following months, and by August 2026 CLANKER traded about 91 percent below its high with a market capitalization near 12 million dollars. The bot remained operational as Farcaster's native token launcher, and Clanker is generally counted among the few agent era products, alongside aixbt and Virtuals Protocol, that outlived the meta which created them.

References

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