Author: Nan Zhi, Odaily Planet Daily

At 11:08 AM today, Dan Finlay, co-founder of MetaMask, deployed the meme token CONSENT on the Base network through the AI agent Clanker, which surged to a market cap of $4.5 million within 5 minutes, and then fluctuated in the $2 million to $3 million range.

Clanker is an AI + social platform-based meme issuance tool, with an interactive experience similar to the previous makenow.meme, where users just need to @clanker, describe the token's Ticker, content, and images, 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 reply and stated: "Honestly, this is a terrible experience: being robbed of my tokens by 200 bots, it’s obvious this is a scam. Maybe the issuer should deposit initial funds first? The Uniswap widget doesn’t even offer MM as a mobile login option." (Note: MM = MetaMask.)

A similar situation also occurred on makenow.meme; if the token deployer chooses to release the token via social media platforms, they themselves have no priority purchasing rights, and no one knows which token is real until the official Bot replies.

This seemingly 'fair' launch method has actually become a feast for 'scientists'. Looking back to earlier friend.tech, various influencers were monitored by bots, and once online, the early chips were snatched away by bots, leaving no space for ordinary users to participate.

"Pump.fun save me"

Dan further stated that he actually lost money from deploying tokens through Clanker, as many people bought in before the founder and then sold after the founder, and now he can only recover losses through "shilling".

Four minutes later, Dan came up with a brilliant idea—issuing a coin on pump.fun. However, on the surface, Dan stated that this was a test to compare the experiences of the two coin issuance platforms.

After Dan published the pump link confirming the legitimacy of the token, 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 showed an unrealized profit of about $200,000.

In response, Dan gave a positive review of pump:

"Comparing the meme coin experience on WC (Warpcast) and SOL. There are two tokens named CONSENT, and ultimately only one will win. So far, the result is: on Clanker, a lot of people will get in early and rug; whereas on pump.fun, at least the developers are true founding members. For example, it’s absolutely impossible to crowdfund an organization using Clanker's model. Even though the amount I invested on pump.fun was only a small fraction of what I put into Clanker, the returns have already been several times more than the losses 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 poke a little fun

Regarding Dan expressing losses on Clanker, Clanker posted on platform X stating: "@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 earned over $26,000 just on ETH."

But Dan seems not to have seen this post on platform X, though he received prompts from other Warpcast users—'Where can I see these Clanker rewards (funds)?'