Author: Nanzi, Odaily Planet Daily
At 11:08 am today, MetaMask co-founder Dan Finlay deployed the MEME token CONSENT on the Base network through the AI agent clanker. The token surged to a market cap of $4.5 million within 5 minutes, and then fluctuated between $2 million and $3 million.
clanker is a MEME issuance tool based on AI+social platform, with an interactive experience similar to the previous makenow.meme. Users only need to @clanker, describe the token's ticker, content and image, and clanker will automatically deploy the token. The core difference is that the deployment process is completed by AI.
Dan: Oh no, I don't have any chips either
But 13 minutes after the token was deployed, Dan retweeted clanker's deployment response and said: "To be honest, this was a terrible experience: 200 bots snatched my token, it's obviously a scam. Maybe the issuer can deposit the initial funds first? There's not even an MM option on the Uniswap widget."
A similar scenario has also occurred on makenow.meme, if the token deployer chooses to release the token through social media platforms, the deployer himself doesn't have the priority to buy, and even before the official Bot responds, no one knows which token is real.
This seemingly "fair" launch method has actually become a "scientist's feast", tracing back to the earlier friend.tech, where all the big V's were monitored by Bots, and as soon as they went online, the early chips were snatched away, leaving no room for ordinary users to participate.
"Pump.fun save me"
Subsequently, Dan further stated that he actually lost money by deploying the token through clanker, because many people bought in before the founder and then sold after the founder, and now he can only make up for the loss by "shilling".
4 minutes later, Dan came up with a brilliant idea - to issue a token on pump.fun. However, on the surface, Dan said this was a test to compare the experience of the two token issuance platforms.
After Dan published the pump link to confirm the legitimacy of the token, the CONSENT token on Solana began to soar, and 11 minutes after the external launch, it reached a market cap of $11 million, at which point Dan's account had a floating profit of about $200,000.
Dan gave a positive review of the pump:
"Comparing the MEME coin experience on WC (Warpcast) and SOL. There are two tokens called CONSENT, and only one will ultimately prevail. The result so far is: on Clanker, you will be rushed by a large number of people and rugged; while on pump.fun, at least the developers are the real founders. For example, it would be impossible to crowdfund an organization using Clanker's model. Even though the amount I invested on pump.fun was only a small part of Clanker, the return is already several times the loss on Clanker. I'm not sure how much of this is 'normal site noise' and how much is due to the boost from this event, but the fact is as I've described."
Clanker comes to fight back a little
In response to Dan's statement that he lost money on clanker, clanker posted on platform X: "@danfinlay tried clanker and pump.fun. He gave us some great suggestions that we will use to improve our product. Dan's experience wasn't good, but he made over $26,000 on ETH alone."
But Dan didn't seem to have seen this post on platform X, but he received a prompt from other Warpcast users - "Where can I see these clanker rewards (funds)?"
