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How did ANON attract Vitalik, Base founder Jesse, and Farcaster co-founder Dan Romero? And how did it drive the rise of tokens like clanker and 33bits? Foresight News author KarenZ reviewed the birth and development of ANON.
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Foresight News: When it comes to the ANON token, we have to start with Supercast. Supercast is a Farcaster client that provides an anonymous posting feature called Superanon. Supercast developer woj, while sleeping, had community members post through the Superanon feature and tag the autonomous AI clanker, which then created the ANON token. When woj woke up, he said it was a cool thing. However, he also explicitly stated that he could not fully support this move, as any tokens from Supercast would be distributed to its users. As a result, many ANON token holders in the Farcaster community voluntarily donated 13 million ANON tokens (now worth $600,000) worth over $40,000 at the time to woj, with the aim of allowing these tokens to be redistributed to Supercast users. Currently, posting anonymously on Farcaster requires at least 15,000 ANON (previously 30,000). More advanced features, such as promoting posts to X or deleting posts, require at least 1 million ANON. LUM, the "GOAT" on Base, was a token created by the AI agent Aethernet on Warpcast through conversation with the clanker (clanker.world) AI agent, with LUM's market cap reaching $7.8 million, while clanker's token market cap was less than $1.2 million. 10 days later, LUM's market cap has risen to $21 million (reaching $80 million on November 15), and clanker's market cap has reached $8.9 million. On clanker, you only need to @clanker on Farcaster and include the name of the token you want to create, and clanker will automatically reply with the created token and a clanker.world link. Currently, there are 1,953 tokens created through clanker. It is worth mentioning that the popularity of ANON has also driven another ZK application called 33bits, which was launched a year ago. 33bits has also been noticed by Dan Romero, allowing Farcaster users with FID ≤ 20001 to post anonymously on Warpcast. When a user logs in to Warpcast, 33bits will link their FID to a new signer. When posting, the user must prove through ZK that their FID ≤ 20001, and this proof is generated using the user's new signer. The entire process (including authentication and proof generation) is done in the user's browser, preserving the privacy of their FID. After creating the proof, it will be verified on the application's backend. If the proof is valid, the user's post will be sent to the @33bits account and published anonymously. 33bits has reached a market cap of $2.7 million after issuing tokens through clanker yesterday.
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