Author: William M. Peaster, Bankless; Translated by: Tao Zhu, Jinse Finance
This weekend, I saw David Hoffman highlighting what he thinks are the best meme tokens currently on Base while browsing Twitter.
Great minds think alike, right? Because these are exactly the 5 similar tokens I see right now on Base. Why?
Fully public, I currently hold some of them, especially HIGHER, ANON, and ghffb47yii2rteeyy10op. But besides my personal views, these tokens have some key timely themes:
They are popular among advanced users on Farcaster.
They are also all at least indirectly related to artificial intelligence and Meme coins.
They are higher-risk contenders in Base as people increasingly seek new adventurous bets on L2.
Nevertheless, keep your wits about you. Trading volatility around these smaller tokens can often rise or fall sharply in a short period. Losing money in this space is inevitable.
However, these tokens are currently standing out for specific reasons. I believe they do have potential upside. At the very least, understanding them can help us better grasp what is currently exciting cryptocurrency traders.
Next, let’s look at the reasons I think these 5 tokens stand out on Base.
1. HIGHER
The term “memecoin” indicates that the token is primarily driven by its meme DNA. This is why I wouldn't strictly consider HIGHER a Meme coin, but rather a scenario coin: its main driving force is as the native token of the Higher community scenario on Base and Farcaster.
Even so, the token's smooth code and optimistic theme of 'let's go higher' indeed give it a shiny and eternal attractive foundational memory level. But when you zoom in, you find that there’s more depth here than in 99.9% of the Meme coin games. That’s why I wouldn’t be surprised to see it listed on major centralized exchanges (cough, Coinbase) in the near future.
Simply put, Higher is an emerging headless brand. I think it’s at the same level as Nouns DAO, just more amorphous and centered around the fungible token HIGHER instead of NFTs. The overall point is the same: trying cool experiments with a group of like-minded creatives. Let’s go higher together.
There are signs that this is just the beginning of the captivating AI curiosities that the Higher collective will generate in the coming years. I am personally bullish accordingly.
2. CLANKER
The Clanker account was created by Proxy Studio, which allows you to tag it through any Farcaster client, including the token code, name, and feature image (optional), and then Clanker AI will launch your liquidity pool on Base with Uniswap V3 liquidity for you.
As a result, Clanker has become very popular on Farcaster in recent weeks. So far, it has been the driver of some of the largest 'fareconomic' token issuances, and interest in it has not shown any signs of slowing down. People love the simplicity of this bot.
That is to say, CLANKER is the native token of Clanker, launched by Clanker, and it has been trading like an agent of the broader Clanker token ecosystem that has been thriving recently on Base and Farcaster.
If your argument is that this token launcher will only get bigger in the near future, then CLANKER is one of the main ways to join this journey.
3. LUM
I previously mentioned HIGHER and CLANKER. The mix of these two popular projects has given birth to Luminous (abbreviated LUM), which is why early investors find this token appealing.
Long story short, someone recently prompted the advanced AI agent Aether to prompt the Clanker token bot to create a brand new token. The result is $LUM.
So, it’s not the official token of the Higher community. In short, LUM now serves as the trading agent for the excitement around Aether, which has now become one of the largest Clanker tokens, currently ranked just behind CLANKER by market cap.
Looking ahead, I think the main risk for LUM is market saturation. More AI agents will enter the crypto space, and their next experiments will be newer and more exciting.
4. ANON
The story of ANON has many touching parts, so let me break it down as simply as possible:
Supercast is a premium client for Farcaster with Super Anon accounts, which allow users to post anonymously; someone used this account to anonymously prompt the Clanker bot to create the ANON token.
Then there’s community building. Kartik deployed anoncast.org, a new independent privacy-focused Farcaster client powered by zero-knowledge proofs. If you hold 5,000 ANON, you can anonymously post to Farcaster using this platform.
While this use case might seem simple, it is undeniably neat, and it is one of the first zk-powered consumer crypto applications we are seeing here. Even Ethereum founder Vitalik Buterin is interested; he bought a small ANON bag, asked questions, and even made design suggestions.
Now more and more people are rushing to use the app, but what is its long-term potential?
This remains to be seen, but there’s no doubt that Anoncast and ANON are currently capturing people’s imagination and attention in the Farcaster ecosystem. The bullish outlook is that Anoncast is continually iterating new features around ANON, making it an increasingly popular utility token on top of Base, which is certainly possible.
5. ghffb47yii2rteeyy10op
A dog wearing a tie requesting a Meme coin is the idea behind this Meme coin. This is Dadaism. Remember how I said above that Meme coins are primarily driven by Meme DNA? Therefore, ghffb47yii2rteeyy10op is pure memory. There’s nothing here besides the silly and charming narrative, and nowadays that is enough to attract some attention.
However, don’t be under any illusions: this token is only a few days old at this point, and it may be cast aside and forgotten in a short time. This is the highest-risk of the 5 tokens mentioned in this article so far. But sometimes crazy and hard-to-understand things can survive and thrive under current market conditions, so if you’re looking for degen plays on Base, this is one of the latest contenders to consider.
