Sponsor: Frax — Fraxtal Ecosystem: Where DeFi Meets AI.

📸 Market Snapshot: In line with the wider bullish market action, AI tokens surged this week.

While Base still retains dominance in overall value thanks to the burgeoning Virtuals ecosystem, Solana's AI scene gained significantly more mindshare this past week — up 3% while Base declined 4%, according to Cookie.

The driver? Many older AI tokens are ripping on Solana, with $ai16z and $GRIFFAIN outperforming $VIRTUAL on the week by 2x and 3x respectively.

Alongside these movers, other previously trendy lower-cap agents on Solana also posted big gains, so it may be time to revisit which were popular way back when (a.k.a. December) and check how their development has progressed.

That said, being allocated to Base AI tokens like $VIRTUAL and $REI hasn't disappointed this week, and with $ETH momentum usually benefiting Base, there's equally a case to focus there.

Regardless of which path you choose, identifying projects that have kept building through the tumultuous past few months will be the recipe for success. Using Cookie to gauge sentiment and mindshare provides a solid pulse check on where attention — and subsequently capital — is flowing, too.

ROUNDUP

Clanker v4: A New Customization Suite for Token Creators

Bankless Author: William Peaster

The team behind Clanker, the popular token deployer bot, has officially rolled out their v4 protocol. The revamped system, built atop Uniswap V4 and Uniswap Hooks, introduces a slew of new goodies for coin creators.

The big picture

The main thrust of Clanker v4 is offering users lots of flexibility. The optionality here is driven by the integration of Hooks, as Hooks allow deep customization around Clanker tokens' underlying liquidity pools.

That said, some of the fresh pillars of the new v4 infra include:

• Custom liquidity + fee structures — Now when you deploy a Clanker token, you can initialize up to 7 distinct liquidity pools to better control your distribution; likewise, you can now set up static or dynamic trading fees for your pools.
• New "Extensions" — Clanker Extensions = the new home for extra opt-in functionalities, like Vaulting (i.e. for locking up to 90% of a token's supply) Dev Buys (i.e. for auto-purchasing from a new token's supply), and Airdrops (i.e. for creating vested allocations for specified recipients).
• Optimized rewards — Now all fees from your Clanker LP positions are sent to a dedicated feel locker, and you can assign up to 7 reward recipients during the token creation process. It's also now possible to make one onchain call to claim WETH earnings across multiple coins.
• MEV protections — Clanker v4 also notably introduced special MEV modules that can activated for anti-sniping defenses, like delaying trading in new liquidity pools or auctioning a pool's first swaps. Pretty nifty!

Why it matters

To date, Clanker's v0 through v3.1 protocols have collectively reached +324,000 traders, generating $31.5 million in fees and more than $3.1 billion in total trading volume in the process. v3.1 alone facilitated the creation of +164,000 unique tokens.

With the new features that v4 offers, Clanker is eyeing fresh heights when it comes to these activity milestones. More creators will be drawn in by the ability to tailor liquidity distribution, fee capture, and vesting schedules to their exact roadmaps, which in turn will attract more traders.

How to try

Clanker v4 is now powering the Clanker account on Farcaster, the clanker.world frontend, and various third-party launchpads like Empire Builder.

If you're new to the Clanker ecosystem and want to try your own token deployment, you might find the frontend route easiest, as its "Create" page lays out all the customization options available to you in a simple, intuitive way.

In the meantime, if you run into any technical questions or are more interested in building around Clanker's tech, be sure to check out the docs. Otherwise, happy clanking!

Plus, other news this week...

🤖 AI Crypto

• 🔥 Coinbase — partnered with Perplexity to offer traders AI-powered analyses based on Coinbase market data
• Masa — launched the first open TikTok scraper on Bittensor. Transcribe TikToks into clean, AI-ready data for free on Subnet 42.
• Virtuals — published the ACP Builder’s Guide for building agents on its Agent Commerce Protocol with SDKs, plugins, fixes, and use cases, and established the Virtuals Foundation
• World — teamed up with Story to bring World ID verifications to the IP blockchain

📣 General News

• Google — added image-to-video generation support in its Veo 3 video model via the Flow app
• Hugging Face — dropped Reachy Mini, a $299 open-source robot built for experimentation and shipping in late Summer
• 🔥 Perplexity — launched its Comet AI-powered web browser as OpenAI is reportedly planning its own browser release
• xAI — unveiled its next-gen models Grok 4 and Grok 4 Heavy, with the latter available for a $300 monthly subscription

💻 Vibe Coding

• Kasra Rahjerdi (demo) — shared a 30-min walkthrough showing the full vibe coding and deployment process, start to finish
• Lenny Rachitsky (resource) — collected 50+ examples of real things people are vibe coding and actually using
• 🔥 Mohamed ElSeidy (resource) — broke down three tiers of AI coding tools and when to use each, depending on where you are in your build journey

📚 Reads

• 🔥 Vitalik Buterin — My Response to AI 2027
• Tiger Research — Rise of the $1T Agent Economy
• Diego — The AI Invasion of Hyperliquid

The Fraxtal ecosystem is expanding at lightning speed—this month’s biggest highlight is IQAI.com, the newest Agent Tokenization platform from IQ and Frax. IQ is building autonomous, intelligent, tokenized agents launching on Fraxtal in Q1. Empower onchain agents with built-in wallets, tokenized ownership, and decentralized governance—all within a fast-growing Fraxtal ecosystem.

In the latest Limitless episode, Ejaaz and Josh unpack xAI’s launch of Grok 4, the new frontier model that tops AGI and coding benchmarks, introduces a dedicated gaming toolkit, and more.

They also explore Grok Heavy’s multi-agent architecture and what Elon Musk’s planned Tesla integration means for AI on the go.

Get up to speed on Grok 4’s release and its implications for other top models—catch the full episode! 👇