Clanker review

Clanker is a token launch protocol. Its docs call it "a token deployment protocol on Base, Arbitrum, and other EVM chains". The best-known way to use it is the @clanker bot on Farcaster, a social network. You reply to a post, tag the bot, and the bot deploys a new token for you.

The oldest token in the clanker.world token list is the project's own token, tokenbot (ticker CLANKER). It was deployed on Base on 8 November 2024. Clanker is now on version 4.1 of its contracts.

The docs list Clanker contracts on Base, Arbitrum One, Unichain, Ethereum, Monad and a network labelled Binance. The docs also say that you can tag @clanker on Farcaster or @clanker_world on X to launch a Solana token through Meteora. The Farcaster bot uses Base unless your post includes a trigger word such as "arbitrum".

A Farcaster bot launch has five steps in the docs. First, you ask @clanker to deploy a token. You can ask the bot to lock up to 30% of the supply in a creator vault for at least 31 days. Second, the bot creates an ERC-20 token with a fixed supply of 100 billion. Nobody can mint more.

Third, the vault part of the supply goes to the vault. Fourth, the bot opens a Uniswap V4 pool against WETH and puts all other tokens in it as single-sided liquidity. The starting market cap is 10 WETH. Fifth, the LP position goes to a Clanker LP locker that has no withdraw function, so nobody can remove that liquidity.

The clanker.world website gives more choices. You connect a wallet and set the chain, name, ticker and image. You can also pick the fee setup, split rewards between several recipients, set a vault with a lockup of at least 7 days, and make a creator buy. The docs say a creator buy has no upper or lower limit.

Each trade on a Clanker pool pays two parts. The LP fee goes to the reward recipients of the launch. The Clanker protocol fee is 20% of the active LP fee, on top of it, and Clanker always takes it in the paired token, usually WETH. The docs give this example: a 1% creator fee plus a 0.2% protocol fee makes a 1.2% swap fee.

The creator picks a static or dynamic LP fee at launch. A static fee stays fixed and cannot change after deployment. The v4.0 hooks allow up to 30%, and the v4.1 hooks allow up to 10%. A dynamic fee goes up when the price moves fast. The recommended dynamic setup for a token that starts at 10 ETH runs from a 0.5% minimum to a 5% maximum. The website uses the dynamic option by default.

The first seconds after launch can cost much more. The v4.1 MEV modules let a creator start the LP fee at up to 80% and lower it over at most 2 minutes. The recommended setup starts at 80% and falls to 5% over 30 seconds. Some pools sell the first swaps in an auction instead, and the proceeds go to creators. Read the memecoin launch cost guide to compare what a launch costs on other launchpads.

Creators earn from the first pool that Clanker makes at launch. The docs say Farcaster bot launches give the creator 80% of LP fees. The bot sends rewards to your latest Farcaster verified address, or to your custody address if you have no verified address. A website launch sends 100% of rewards to the connected wallet by default, and the creator can split them across other recipients.

You claim rewards on the token's admin page on clanker.world. Anyone can start the claim, but the rewards always go to the set recipient. A creator earns nothing from pools that other people open for the same token. See how creator fees work for the same model on other launchpads.

The Clanker docs name two core team members, Veganbeef and Quazia, with links to their Farcaster profiles. We found no company name and no terms of service page on clanker.world. We could not confirm the current owner of Clanker from a primary source.

The docs list audits of the contracts: Quantstamp for v2.0.0 in January 2025, Macro for v3.1.0 in March 2025, Cantina and Macro for v4 in June and July 2025, and Macro for v4.1 in August 2025. An audit checks the code. It does not make a token safe to buy.

You keep your own keys. A website launch uses your connected wallet, and bot rewards go to your Farcaster address. The clanker.world site shows warning tags on tokens with odd settings, such as a very low starting market cap or an unusual paired token. Check those tags before you buy. A token launched through Clanker can go to zero. The memecoin survival study shows how often launchpad tokens keep their value after launch.

Clanker and Zora both put each new token in a Uniswap pool on Base at launch, with no bonding curve. Zora ties coins to posts and profiles inside its own app. Clanker launches from a Farcaster post, a website form or partner apps. Virtuals focuses on tokens for AI agents.

pump.fun works in a different way. A pump.fun token trades on a bonding curve first and moves to a DEX pool only when the curve fills. A Clanker token skips that step. See Clanker vs Zora and Clanker vs Virtuals for side-by-side terms and live fee data.