Original | Odaily Planet Daily (@OdailyChina)
Author | Nan Zhi (@Assassin_Malvo)
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's market cap soared to $4.5 million within 5 minutes, followed by oscillation in the $2 million - $3 million range.
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, with the core difference being that the deployment process is completed by AI.
Dan: Oh no, I don’t have chips either.
However, 13 minutes after the token was deployed, Dan retweeted clanker's deployment response and stated: "Honestly, this was a bad experience: having my tokens snatched away by 200 bots, it’s obvious this is a scam. Maybe the issuer should deposit initial funds first? The Uniswap widget didn’t even offer MM as a mobile login option." (Note: MM = MetaMask.)
A similar scenario occurred on makenow.meme, where if the token deployer chose to release the token via social media, they had no preferential purchasing rights, and no one knew which token was real until after the official Bot response.
This seemingly 'fair' launch method has actually become a feast for 'scientists'. Going back to the earlier friend.tech, various influencers were monitored by Bots, and as soon as they went online, the early chips were snatched by Bots, leaving no room for ordinary users to participate.
"Pump.fun save me"
Dan further stated that he actually incurred losses by deploying tokens through clanker because many people bought in before the founder and sold after the founder, and now he can only make up for the losses by 'shilling'.
Four minutes later, Dan came up with a brilliant idea - to issue tokens on pump.fun. However, publicly, Dan stated that this was a test to compare the experiences of the two token issuance platforms.
After Dan published the pump link confirming the token's legitimacy, CONSENT on Solana began to surge, reaching a market cap of $11 million just 11 minutes after the external launch, at which point Dan's account had an unrealized profit of about $200,000.
In response, Dan gave a positive review of the pump:
Comparing the Meme coin experiences of WC (Warpcast) and SOL. There are two tokens named CONSENT, but ultimately only one will prevail.
So far, the result is: on Clanker, you'll be rushed and rug-pulled by a large number of people; while on pump.fun, at least the developers are actual founding members. For example, it would be impossible to use Clanker's model for crowdfunding an organization.
Even though the amount I invested on pump.fun is just a small part of Clanker, the returns are already several times what I lost on Clanker. I’m not sure how much of this is 'the normal site noise', and how much is due to the boost from this activity, but for me, that’s the reality.
Clanker comes to throw some shade.
Or in response to Dan's statement about losing money on clanker, clanker posted on platform X: "@danfinlay tried clanker and pump.fun. He gave us some great suggestions, and we will use them to improve our product. Dan's experience wasn’t good, but he earned over $26,000 just on ETH."
But Dan seems not to have seen this post on platform X, but he received a tip from other Warpcast users - "Where can I see these clanker rewards (funding)."
