ZEROPOD

Welcome back to another episode of ZEROPOD. This week, Toady Hawk is joined by JackWyldes and they have a very interesting conversation with Proxy and Dish, the two indomitable founders of the little AI agent token launcher called Clanker which has taken the Base ecosystem by storm over the past couple months.

This pod is structured a little differently than most, because we actually sat down with the clankers-in-chief on two separate occasions, a couple weeks apart. In between, the guys hosted a hackathon in Boston called Clankhack, where many builders from their burgeoning ecosystem gathered to build together for a weekend, and our own Jack was fortunate enough to attend and document the whole thing (more on this soon.) In any case, we have edited these 2 conversations into a single podcast for your enjoyment, with hinge in the middle separating the pre-clankhack and post-clank-hack eras.

We had a blast digging in to get the raw clanker story for you and we hope you will enjoy this conversation as much as we did. So grab a tall glass of milk and a fresh can of spinach and strap in for the Clankpod!

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TIMESTAMPS:

0:00 - Introduction to Clanker: What is Clanker? Deploying meme coins made simple.
2:04 - ZEROPOD Intro
3:00 - Start of Part 1: Pre-Clankhack. Personal Stories of the Founders
6:00 - The Origin of Clanker
9:04 - Building Clanker in Five Days
12:02 - Launching and Scaling Clanker
15:02 - Clanker’s Value Proposition
18:33 - A message from our sponsors
20:00 - Reminiscing about launch day
22:00 - Create the job(s) you want
24:00 - “Farcaster is an incredible network”
26:00 - Tokens as a novel bootstrapping mechanism
29:00 - Dish got kicked off of Facebook
36:00 - The speculative power of ERC-20s vs NFTs
48:00 - Start of Part 2 (Post Clankhack)
49:00 - What is Clanker, exactly?
51:00 - How does it differ from other models
54:00 - The moat is the network
57:00 - What was Clankhack?
1:00:00 - The space needs more good content
1:03:00 - How can Zero Rights Help creators
1:05:00 - Being bombarded by VC term sheets
1:08:00 - “It shouldn’t be easy to make 16 million dollars”
1:10:00 - The future of Clankhack
1:17:00 - Comparison to UX on Solana
1:19:00 - “No more L2s”
1:21:00 - “If the leader of the free world can do it, so can you.”
1:24:00 - Wen $SNOWDEN on Base?
1:33:00 - Bit of a love fest tbh
1:38:00 - Chugging canned spinach for the plot
1:40:00 - Alpha?
1:42:00 - Outro

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Podcast recorded by Toady Hawk and JackWyldes, edited by Toady Hawk, JackWyldes and Santhosh. Hosted by Toady Hawk and JackWyldes. Music by Toady Hawk, SuperTightWoody & Suno AI. Ad spot by JackWyldes. Produced by Zero Rights Media.

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