@MapKaZzzz clank clank
Reply to @MapKaZzzz: in 2024, Clanker was live for only 54 days
it still out-earned Farcaster, t | Hanami
@MapKaZzzz clank clank
Reply to @MapKaZzzz: in 2024, Clanker was live for only 54 days
it still out-earned Farcaster, the app it was born in
Clanker is a bot: tag @clanker on Farcaster with a name and a ticker, and it launches the token on Base
the creator earns a fee on every swap, the protocol takes a cut on top
protocol revenue in 2024, per DefiLlama:
> Clanker, Nov 8 - Dec 31: $2.85M
> Farcaster, all year: $2.43M
> per day: $52.9K vs $6.6K, nearly 8x
the peaks:
> Dec 2-3, 2024: $1.33M in protocol revenue in two days, more than half of Farcaster's whole year
> December 2024 alone: 5x Farcaster's best month of that year
> February 2026: $22.4M in swap fees through Clanker pools in one month
then the bot changed hands together with the app:
> Oct 2025: @farcaster_xyz bought Clanker
> co-founder Jack Dishman that day: "Clanker was only possible because of Farcaster"
> Jan 2026: @neynarxyz bought Farcaster, Clanker came with it
> Oct 2026: Network School bought Farcaster, without Clanker
> Oct 22: @clanker_world said the @masknetwork / Firefly team will maintain it
the app changed owners twice
the bot kept deploying: 730K+ tokens and $15.4M in protocol revenue so far
Clanker turns 2 on Nov 8
chapter one proved a bot can out-earn its own home
chapter two is on @suji_yan and the Firefly team