Key Takeaways
- Week one numbers: In his first three full days as Clanker CEO, Toady Hawk reported $11.37 million in launch-pool volume, up from less than $1 million in the three days before, plus 277,869 trades and $229.71 million in total ecosystem trading volume.
- v5 contracts: Clanker's v5 contracts, live since Nov. 5, let a token set a tax of 1% to 10% on every buy and sell, then keep it, burn its own coin or pay holders in ETH or USDC.
- Elysium: Toady Hawk said Clanker has queued up day-one support for Elysium, the Hyperliquid chain Kinetiq plans to launch on Nov. 9.
- $EAT: Toady Hawk met WYDE founder Aaron Rafferty, called the $EAT team an OG Clanker crew and said he is excited about its upcoming EAT app.
Clanker's reboot has its first numbers. Three full days after taking over the Base token launchpad, CEO Toady Hawk wrote on X on Nov. 6 that Clanker did $11.37 million in launch-pool volume, which he said was 13 times the previous three days. He also met the team behind $EAT, the hunger token WYDE launched through Clanker.
Clanker Reboot Numbers After Three Days
Toady Hawk announced the CEO role on Nov. 3, after Mask Network's Firefly team took over Clanker on Oct. 22, as WYDE reported. In his week-one post, he listed:
- $11.37 million in launch-pool volume, up from less than $1 million in the previous three-day period
- 277,869 trades across all pools, a 5x increase
- $229.71 million in total ecosystem trading volume, up 25%
Launch-pool volume hit $6 million on day one, which Toady Hawk put at 21 times the average from the past month. That implies an average of about $286,000 a day before the reboot, by WYDE's arithmetic. He said $REBOOT emerged as an organic day-one runner and a team came together to build on it. The figures are Toady Hawk's own, and WYDE has not verified them independently.
What Clanker v5 Contracts Add
Clanker posted on Nov. 5 that v5 is live. The new contracts let a token creator "set a tax on every buy and sell, from 1 to 10%" and then keep it, burn the coin with it or pay holders in ETH or USDC. Every v5 coin ends in cccc, Clanker said, and the contracts are built on o1.exchange's open-source launchpad contracts.
Toady Hawk's own list adds holder rewards, which he also called reflections, token burns and revenue sharing, and transferable creator rights for community takeovers, known as CTOs. His week-one post said v5 also brings custom pairs with almost 300 onchain tokenized stocks, part of a push to bring Clanker to feature parity with other launchpads.
Clanker has also queued up Elysium for day-one support, Toady Hawk wrote. Elysium is Kinetiq's new chain, which settles to HyperEVM, Hyperliquid's smart contract layer. Pump.fun and fomo plan to support it from its Nov. 9 launch, Bankless reported.
Why Toady Hawk Called $EAT an OG Clanker Crew
In a Nov. 6 post, Toady Hawk wrote that he had met Aaron from WYDE and $EAT the day before. He called the team "An OG clanker crew who are doing real good in the world, turning attention on TikTok into trading volume on clanker, into creator fees, into real, tangible free meals for hungry children." He added that he is "Excited to cook with this team on their upcoming Eat App" and that they might "manifest a real Cause Coin meta on clanker."
WYDE founder Aaron Rafferty replied that they discussed tokenization, trading, creators and turning attention into impact. The week-one post also named Rafferty among the longtime builders Toady Hawk met one-on-one, out of more than a dozen.
$EAT launched through Clanker in December 2025 and ranked second on Clanker's Top Clankers list in WYDE's Oct. 24 report. WYDE's glossary defines a cause coin as a cause-specific token tied to a mission and a cause treasury, with $EAT the first and so far the only one live. EAT's creator campaign, Everybody EATs, goes live next week.
What Clanker v5 Means for Cause Coins Like $EAT
The v5 trade tax gives a new Clanker token a built-in way to send part of every trade to a wallet, a burn or its holders, a tool a cause coin could use. Clanker has not announced cause coin features, and v5 applies to coins launched on the new contracts. $EAT was deployed through Clanker v4 with a fixed supply of 100 billion tokens and no mint authority, so v5 does not change its contract.
People Also Ask
What is Clanker v5?
Clanker v5 is the launchpad's new set of token contracts, live since Nov. 5, 2026. It lets creators set a 1% to 10% tax on every buy and sell, built on o1.exchange's open-source launchpad contracts.
How much volume did Clanker do in the reboot's first days?
Toady Hawk reported $11.37 million in launch-pool volume and $229.71 million in total ecosystem trading volume in his first three full days as CEO.
Who is Clanker's CEO?
Toady Hawk, a Base Security Committee member, announced on Nov. 3, 2026 that he is Clanker's CEO, leading its reboot under Mask Network.