Original Title: "MetaMask Co-founder Rushes to Mint Coin, Is Ethereum's Orthodoxy Just Here to Visit Next Door?"

Original Author: Nan Zhi, Odaily Planet Daily

At 11:08 am today, MetaMask co-founder Dan Finlay, deployed the Meme token CONSENT via AI agent clanker on the Base network. The token surged to a market cap of $4.5 million in 5 minutes, then oscillated in the $2-3 million range.

Clanker is a meme issuance tool based on AI + social platform. The interactive experience is similar to the previous makenow.meme. Users only need to @clanker, provide a text description of the token's ticker, content, and image, and clanker will automatically deploy the token. The key difference is that the deployment process is AI-driven.

Dan: Oh no, I'm out of chips too

However, 13 minutes after the token deployment, Dan retweeted clanker's deployment reply and said, "Honestly, this was a bad experience: Having my tokens taken by 200 bots, it's obvious this is a scam. Maybe the issuer can first deposit some initial funds? Even Uniswap's widget doesn't offer MM as a mobile login option." (Odaily Planet Daily note: MM=MetaMask.)

A similar situation also occurred on makenow.meme. If the token deployer chooses to announce the token through social media platforms, the deployer has no right to a priority purchase, and even before the official Bot reply, no one knows which token is genuine.

This seemingly "fair" launch method has actually become a "scientist's" feast, dating back to the earlier friend.tech. Influencers from all walks of life were monitored by bots. Once launched, early chips were snatched away by bots, leaving no room for regular users to participate.

"Pump.fun Save Me"

Later, Dan further stated that he actually incurred losses by deploying the token through clanker because many people bought in before the founder and then sold off after the founder, and now he can only make up for the losses through "shilling."

4 minutes later, Dan came up with a brilliant idea—launching a coin on pump.fun. However, on the surface, Dan stated that this was a test to compare the experience of two coin launch platforms.

After Dan posted the pump link to confirm the token's legitimacy, CONSENT on Solana started to skyrocket, reaching a $11 million market value just 11 minutes after the external launch, with Dan's account seeing approximately a $200,000 unrealized gain.

In response, Dan gave a positive assessment of the pump:

「Currently comparing the meme coin experience of WC (Warpcast) and SOL. There are two tokens named CONSENT, but only one will prevail. So far, the result is: on Clanker, there is a rush and rug by many people; whereas on pump.fun, at least the developers are true founding members. For instance, it is absolutely impossible to crowdfund an organization using the Clanker model. Even though the amount I invested on pump.fun is just a fraction of what I lost on Clanker, the gains have been several times more. I am 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 is the reality.」

Clanker Responds

In response to Dan's mention of losing money on Clanker, Clanker posted on Platform X: 「@danfinlay tried Clanker and pump.fun. He gave us some great feedback that we will use to improve our product. Dan's experience was not great, but he made over $26,000 just on ETH alone.」

However, Dan seemed to have missed this post on Platform X, but he received tips from other Warpcast users asking, "Where can we see these Clanker rewards (funds)?"

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