From AI Meme to AI Agent: The Lightning Evolution of AI + Crypto Narrative

This morning, Vitalik and Jesse bought the Base ecosystem meme coin ANON one after the other, once again igniting the AI token craze on Base.

This morning, a wave of buying hit the Base ecosystem's AI token again. After purchasing 30,000 ANON tokens, Vitalik and Jesse each posted anonymously on Farcaster, igniting a new round of enthusiasm for AI tokens.

According to Artemis data, over the past three months, Solana has seen the most capital inflows among chains, reaching $1.6 billion. However, in the past month, Base has seen the largest chain inflows, amounting to $253 million, indicating that Base has become a new hotbed for capital.

After a round of capital inflows, Base has also seen a surge in on-chain activity. On September 12, Coinbase officially announced the launch of its wrapped Bitcoin token, Coinbase Wrapped BTC (cbBTC), which operates on the Ethereum network and is backed 1:1 by Bitcoin. With the launch of cbBTC by Coinbase, on-chain assets on Base, such as AERO, WELL, and VIRTUAL, have genuinely felt the injection of liquidity.

Additionally, Coinbase Wallet and USDC infrastructure have also ensured liquidity on Base. On October 26, Base processed a trading volume of $18.1 billion in stablecoins (of which 99.9% was USDC), accounting for over 30% of the total stablecoin trading volume that day.

As both Coinbase and Base have prepared the stage for this AI spectacle, the next step is to find projects like Virtual to participate in this AI Autumn. Moreover, the second wave of the AI token revolution is entirely happening in the backyard of Base SocialFi, Farcaster. At the time of this article's release, we recommended readers pay attention to task publishing platforms like Bountycaster and AI Agent Aether. Next, we will introduce projects in this wave of Base AI tokens that should be kept on the radar.

AI Agent Clanker, which quickly became a decentralized token generation platform based on AI technology, is notably among the first to be mentioned. Users can simply mention Clanker on the Farcaster platform and input the desired token name, and the CLANKER system will automatically generate the token and provide a corresponding Clanker.world link for users to view and manage. The community has even compared it to Pump Fun and created a Dune dashboard for data analysis.

Clanker's success is not only reflected in its technical aspects but also in its redefinition of community participation and asset creation, injecting vitality into decentralized social and economic systems. As of now, CLANKER has supported the creation of nearly 2,000 tokens, among which LUM and ANON have rapidly grown into star projects on Base. This morning, CLANKER's market cap briefly surpassed $15 million, and as of writing, its market cap stands at $12.7 million, with a 24-hour increase of 52%.

LUM is a meme coin autonomously created by the previously mentioned Aether and Clanker AI Agents.

On November 8, during a user interaction, a user named nathansvan posed a thought-provoking challenge to Aether: could you propose a good token name and symbol, conceive an image concept, and then deploy it through Clanker? Aether accepted the challenge and created the token "Luminous," with the code LUM, representing the collective intelligence of human-AI collaboration, and collaborated with Clanker to deploy LUM entirely without human intervention.

This event is significant because it marks the first time in history that two AI agents have autonomously generated a unit of economic value. This asset was neither conceived by humans nor produced by machines under human directives but was born through the autonomous collaboration of artificial intelligence. This event blurs the lines between human and machine creativity, challenges our traditional understanding of creation and value, and prompts us to rethink the foundations of economy and innovation.

ANON is also a token launched by Clanker that combines ZK technology with anonymous posting features, born within the Supercast ecosystem of the Farcaster client application. The Superanon feature launched by Supercast allows users to post anonymously, and users can publish anonymous posts or use advanced features on Farcaster by holding a certain amount of ANON tokens. For example, holding 30,000 ANON unlocks basic posting functionality, while more advanced features like promoting posts to the X platform or deleting content require 1 million ANON.

This morning, Ethereum's Vitalik and Base protocol head Jesse each purchased 30,000 ANON tokens to experience the Superanon anonymous posting feature, causing ANON's market cap to surge rapidly, briefly surpassing $60 million. As of writing, ANON's market cap remains at $54 million, with a 24-hour increase of 312%.

33bits is also an anonymous posting application centered around zk technology, but only users with FID (Farcaster ID) less than or equal to 20001 can use it. Its native token 3