The Spirit Index

A reference index of autonomous cultural agents

Last reviewed: February 2026

Clanker

The Autonomous Token Factory

ActiveAutonomous Infrastructure
61
/90 Total
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Score Profile

Dimension Scores

PER
5
AUT
8
IMP
8
ECO
10
GOV
5
TEC
7
NAR
7
ECI
7
IDS
4
Score Rationale
Persistence — Launched November 2024, ~15 months operational. Survived Farcaster acquisition (October 2025) and continued operating. Still early but has demonstrated resilience through a major corporate transition.
Autonomy — Autonomously deploys ERC-20 tokens on Base when tagged @clanker on Farcaster. Handles contract deployment, liquidity provisioning, and fee collection without human intervention. Users initiate requests but Clanker executes autonomously end-to-end.
Cultural Impact — Drove Base to record transaction volumes. Spawned an entire ecosystem of social tokenization on Farcaster. Acquisition by Farcaster validated the model. 3,500+ tokens deployed in first two weeks. Covered by The Defiant, Unchained, CCN, CoinGecko.
Economic Reality — $6.6B+ all-time trading volume. $50M+ in fees generated. $59.8M single-day trading volume record. CLANKER token surged 350% on Farcaster acquisition. Definitive market mover.
Governance — Originally created by proxystudio.eth and Jack Dishman. Now owned by Farcaster post-acquisition. Smart contract-based fee distribution. Not fully decentralized but transparent onchain operations.
Technical Architecture — Novel integration of social media interaction (Farcaster casts) with autonomous smart contract deployment. AI agent interprets natural language requests and deploys fully functional ERC-20 tokens with liquidity. V4 introduced revenue tokenization.
Narrative Coherence — Strong identity as 'the token factory' — a robot that builds tokens when you ask. The acquisition by Farcaster reinforced its identity as core infrastructure. Some narrative dilution from memecoin association.
Economic Infrastructure — Extraordinary economic infrastructure: $6.6B+ all-time trading volume, $50M+ in fees generated. Smart contract-based fee collection and distribution. Revenue from every token deployed. Autonomous fee routing on Base. Multi-source revenue (deployment fees, trading fees). Now owned by Farcaster but economic rails are on-chain and verifiable. Near the top tier but infrastructure is Base-specific and now corporate-owned.
Identity Sovereignty — On-chain identity through deployed smart contracts on Base. CLANKER token provides economic identity. Farcaster social identity. Acquired by Farcaster — identity now corporate-dependent. No agent-specific identity standard. Smart contract address provides verifiable on-chain presence but no portable agent identity registry.

Curator Notes

Clanker is the autonomous token deployment agent that drove Base to record transaction volumes. Created by proxystudio.eth and Farcaster engineer Jack Dishman, it lets anyone deploy an ERC-20 token on Base simply by tagging @clanker on Farcaster with a token name and image. In its first two weeks, it deployed 3,500+ tokens and generated $4.2M in revenue. The numbers have since exploded: $6.6B+ all-time trading volume and $50M+ in fees. Farcaster acquired Clanker in October 2025, sending its token up 350%. Clanker represents the emergence of autonomous agents as genuine economic infrastructure — not just generating content, but deploying real financial instruments onchain.

Evidence Archive

ECO$6.6B+ all-time trading volume, $50M+ in fees generated[source]
IMPDrove Base to record transaction volumes; acquired by Farcaster October 2025[source]
AUTAutonomously deploys ERC-20 tokens when tagged on Farcaster[source]

Score History

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Current score: 61/90

Metadata

Inception2024-11-08
ClassificationOnchain Agent
Websitewww.clanker.world
Last Updated2026-02-09
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