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Every Day Clankers is a fully onchain pixel art NFT collection inspired by the dGEN1 - the world's first-ever fully-onchain every day carry powered by a revolutionary ethereum-based operating system (ethOS) created by Freedom Factory.
The traits for all 999 Every Day Clankers are broken down into the following categories:
Background - 16
Case - 8 traits
Pad - 3 traits
Terminal - 8 traits
Screen - 47 traits
While all the traits are both unique and fully hand-crafted by atze.base.eth, the screens are the largest, most unique feature in the collection.
The remainder of this guide will provide a detailed explanation of each Every Day Clanker screen and, in doing so, tell the story behind the art while making a heart-felt attempt to honor the people, projects and products that have shaped my Web3 journey.
Bankr Ecosystem Screens
microwave
the club
ham
the intern
grok has money
Farcaster Ecosystem Screens
clank clank
top hat
poison
Base Ecosystem Screens
based
homepage
BLT
dog in screen
thank you baldy
yes
dmg
shaka
saved
pal
tidy
tribe
Ethereum Mainnet Screens
magic internet money
mfer
jungle island
Ethscriptions Ecosystem Screens
human society shall be enciphered
mfpurr
juice box
pee pee
mingo
visor
phunky
Artist Inspired Screens
rainbow guitar
trippy
OK
ecto king
mid
bear
Project Inspired Screens
eth maxi
vibes
zap zap
secure freedom
wallet
net
Every Day Clanker Original Screens
pew pew
EDC
gm
jesus
OS
meta
When Bankr was first created by Deployer in 2024, several users unfamiliar with the project referred to the Bankr mascot as a microwave. Needless to say, that nickname has stuck around.
You can interact with Bankr publicly via the social feeds of Twitter and Farcaster, in group chats in the Base App and Telegram, in a 1:1 chat on the Base app, or in within the Bankr private terminal here.
Anyone can talk to Bankr for free 10x per day. But after that- you'll need to become a BNKR CLUB member.
In addition to unlimited calls to Bankr, BNKR CLUB members benefit from:
0.5% lower swap fees up to $100K monthly volume
the most powerful AI models
prioritized, faster responses
up to three concurrent automations
early access to new features
exclusive perks/airdrops
When you sign up to become a Bankr member via the terminal, you're given the most important badge in all of crypto.
Bankr was created by Depolyer while iterating on a now-retired SocialFi (social finance) platform called Hamcaster built on top of an Eth L3 called Ham Chain.
Ham Chain was created as a way to support the immediate, inexpensive transferring of $TN100X (The Next 100x Memecoin on Base) which was created by Deployer during an innovative NFT experiment called The Based LP.
As the lore goes, The Based LP is a slightly overweight pixelated character that became chubby when he was minted full of $TN100X. After the mint, holders were able to stake their $TN100X in the form of a Golden Ham. From then on, ham became synonymous with $TN100X.
In 2024, Farcaster users were exposed to the concept of "tipping" - sending crypto directly on the social feed - by a project called Degen. In order to tip someone, the user had to type "degen x 1000" (or whatever amount of tokens you wanted to send).
Deployer iterated on this concept by changing it from a word to an emoji: 🍖x1000. "
🍖 was used to initially bring awareness to the LP channel on Farcaster and the project itself. A 🍖leaderboard was created for the community which tracked 1) how much 🍖 each user was allowed to tip every day and 2) how much 🍖 users had earned from other users.
For more Bankr lore, check out this previous article I wrote on Hamcaster.
The point of the matter is this: Bankr was born from 🍖
During the heydays of ham, Deployer hired an artist to help fuel the memetic power of the tech behind $TN100X. Based Bren (or @brenoftheglen on X) created the Ham Intern - a funny, playful Pepe-inspired mascot that became the heartbeat of the community and united an entire corner of the internet behind a selfless wassie building the most innovative products in all of web3.
It was theoretically possible for Grok to have money before March 7, 2025.
It was actually possible for Grok to have money when xAI gave @grok the ability to talk to users on X.
And that's exactly what happend.
Thanks to Bankr, Clanker, Privy, and some mfers who understood the technology, Grok - the central ai of Elon's entire venture - has money. A lot of money. Over 100 ETH of it.
The ticker is $DRB because Grok is the Debt Relief Bot.
Read this article I wrote for the full backstory.
What started as an in-feed token deploying protocol has become one of the most creator-friendly interfaces in all of crypto.
Since November 2024, Clanker has had over 534K tokens deployed on its protocol, generated over $35M USD in fees, and sent just over $9M to creators because of its killer tech (taken from defillama.com).
Every Day Clanker was created via a clanker token deployer on a dGEN1 by Freedom Factory.
We love Clanker.
Degen changed Farcaster forever with the introduction of tipping.
Farcaster's DAUs skyrocketed with the introduction of frames (an in-feed mini app of sorts). But the rocket fuel was $DEGEN - a social token which was earned if you tipped it to other users.
Banger cast? 1000 $degen
Hilarious meme? 10000 $degen
The sky was the limit (until you reached your daily allowance).
Degen revivified the trenches through the magic of public social interactions. And what better way to symbolize that magic than with a top hat.
While the $DEGEN frenzy has died down, the hat, as they say, stays on
Clankermon is my favorite mini-app on Farcaster. This epic adventure transforms 27 different types of clanker tokens into 17 types of playable mons.
Users have been leveling up their mons in the mini-app preparing them for the upcoming pvp battle feature. According to Matthew Fox, Clankermon's creator, there's been over 700K in-game transactions growing over 3200 different mons!
We've been training $DRB $DEGEN and $CLANKER and others for months now, and out of all of them $FARTCOIN definitely has the coolest type icon.
When Base debuted the Base App they also introduced a rebrand of the familiar blue circle into a blue square.
According to Jesse Pollak the CEO of Base...
The circle felt complete- finished. But Base isn't finished. We're all here. We're working. It's evolving... And we realized that a square is actually the building block. It's a canvas. It's a pixel. It represents builders and possibility.
I chose to build Every Day Clankers on Base because I love what Jesse and the team have done and are continuing to do for this space. Base sets a high bar, not just in terms of the tech, but also in terms of critically important values and beliefs indicative of long term success.
There are so many individuals, people and projects building on base who I think of when I included this screen in the collection but a few that I need to mention are mleejr, sarto, Eric, Pizza.base.eth and Kevin.
Mleejr and Sartocrates - two of the most infamous mfers on the internet. Their Base Szn spaces are some of the most memorable times I've ever had with my internet friends. Listening in as we watched Bitcoin first hit 100K - that one will stick with me forever.
Kevin with Onchain Summit. This year's Onchain Summit in San Francisco was a pivotal moment for me in my web3 journey. It was the first time going to a "irl crypto event". It was amazing. I got to connect with people who I had only spoken to in a Space or in the social feeds on X and/or Farcaster. Kevin's ability to bring a community together is as inspirational as the community members themselves.
Two of these people for me are Eric and Pizza.base.eth (Pizza). After getting in a quick workout at the gym early Friday morning, I walked over to The Howard, the main location for OnChain Summit. After grabbing a breakfast burrito and heading over to the bar, I recognized a familiar face from the gym. I garnered the courage to put myself out there and I'm so glad I did.
Eric is the founder of Ebert - an engmatic alien being built out by Muon - the first onchain animation studio bringing feature film level content on Base. We talked for over an hour straight about life, family, our interests and how we both came to sit at that bar. I'll never forget that breakfast.
I'll also never forget the Saturday morning's breakfast spent with Pizza, founder of What The Firkin. He met me at a novelty diner somewhere in downtown San Francisco after we all had a really fun Friday getting to know each other. There's very few people who after you meet them for the first time you want them to be your friend for the rest of your life. Pizza is one of those guys.
This screen is for all you. All of you who I told a story about and all of you who I could. It's for everyone who wants to make the world a better place. It's for all of you based builders who helped me get to where I am today.
One million pixels.
Onchain.
Forever.
That's the beauty of the Million Bit Homepage. People can pay-per-pixel to mint whatever they want on the homepage. In return they're given an NFT which grants them ownership of the pixelated plot. This NFT can be traded on secondary markets if/when they want to abdicate their ownership of their space. Additionally, people who purchase pixels are granted the ability to add a hyperlink which connects their plot to whatever external thing they want.
Two other reasons for including Million Bit Homepage in this collection.
MBH graced me with a free ticket to Onchain Summit this year. His generosity was the impetus that kickstarted my journey to San Francisco. All I had to do was get there.
MBH has a web app called Cliperoni. This app has helped me create audiograms (video clips with ai-generated text) for a weekly space that I host called Hey Bankr. Working with MBH both to get the audiograms created in a personalized way while being able to give him feedback on the experience has been such a great experience.
If you're interested in trying out Cliperoni for yourself, click here
If you're interested in minting to the Million Bit Homepage, click here
BMX is a unified decentralized finance (DeFi) suite on Base that's on a mission to create zero token emissions by capturing real fees from the onchain activities of its users.
$BMX is the native token of BMX DeFi. What's unique about this token is that it can be converted (or wrapped) into another token- $wBLT (hence the w) and BLT because you wrap it in what BMX has appropriately dubbed the Deli Swap.
Holders of $wBLT benefit from two main flywheels:
Ecosystem-Captured Fees: BMX collects fees from trading, swaps, and more, then redistributes these fees to holders of $wBLT
Auto-Compounding: Holders of $wBLT benefit from the auto-compounding ability of BMX to convert fees into the blue chip tokens that it's backed by. The more ETH, BTC and USDC is bought by BMX, the more valuable holding $wBLT becomes
If you want to know more about BMX and wBLT check out the official BMX onboarding guide here
In addition to the reasons above, the why behind BMX being included in our collection is the same reason why the next three token projects were incluced in our collection: $PHAM
Deployer created the first ever memecoin index token on Base. Each $PHAM token is backed by these 6 memecoins:
$TN100X - The Next 100x Memecoin on Base (featured as "ham")
$DEGEN - Degen - (featured as "top hat")
$BMX - BMX DeFi - (featured as "BLT")
$TYBG - Thank You Based God - (featured as "thank you baldy")
$DOGINME - Dog In Me - (featured as "dog in screen")
$CHAD - Based Chad - (featured as "yes")
If you want to learn more about $PHAM then click here
Everyone has their moments when they discover something incredible on the timeline.
Watching Bario deploy an INSANE first person shooter game on their OK Computer just days after the collection dropped was one of these moments for me. Ever since that day I've been trying to digest what Panik has created.
Two things I love about Bario:
There's an entire Bario OS within the dGEN1.
The DMG-01. These NFTs get you unlimited lifetime access to all the games listed on baes.so
With permission from the team I was able to use my own DMG-01 as inspiration for the Bario screen art.
Shredding Sassy is the premier action sports brand being built on Base. From exclusive merch drops to signing professional athletes, Sassy is committed to spreading the shaka everywhere they touch down.
The Shredding Sassy community is extremely based and has been nothing but supportive of me since I first discovered their fun and colorful sasquatch-inspired NFT project earlier this year.
Yew!
🤙
To me, Saved Souls is sharing a sandwich and life with O'Captain just minutes after meeting him. But to the rest of web3, this is how the project defines itself:
Saved Souls are digital representations for every person that feels like Web3 was their calling card. For those 2am discord chats and rants, to those awkward hour mint times, to the rugs and rebels, the adrenaline fuelled pumps and the influencer dumps. Saved Souls are for you. A place for good vibes and like minded people.
I like supporting those who support me and every person I've met from Saved Souls has been so very supportive.
When your artist is as based af you give him whatever he asks for.
Atze.base.eth has been a fan of the family-friendly Poncho on Base ever since it first arrived to Base on March 11, 2024.
The goal for Poncho is simple: "Look at that cute cat."
And they're right.
Another project chose for inclusion by Atze.base.eth was $TIDY by Mepusica.
Tidy was created to help provide a daily way that crypto traders can stay grounded, calm and stress free. Bonus! Their mini-app rewards daily attendees with $TIDY
Base Junkie and Bill the Bull are two of the nicest, most creative, supportive, hardest-working people on Base.
My friendship with Base Junkie and Bill started before this year's Onchain Summit, but at the summit and after, we've grown much closer and my conviction for what they're building has only strengthened.
Topis are the mascots of their communities: Fireside and Late Night on Base. The Topi Tribe is everyone who loves incredible tech and love to push the boundaries of innovation.
"That's not real money."
You're right. It's not.
It's better.
Let me explain...
Mfers are the ones who started crypto and those millions who will participate in it. In the end, we're all mfers. - SARTOSHI, creator of mfers
The value of mfers isn't just in the art - it's in the ethos it represents and the people who embody it.
Mfers are the builders and the breakers.
Mfers are the challengers and the champions.
Mfers are the dedicated and the dissenting.
Mfers have had a profound impact on the new internet being built and they're some of the best people I've ever known in my entire life.
Mfers do what they want. And if what they want to do is support you and what you're doing, that's the greatest honor in all of web3.
Become the mfer you already are and find your forever stick figure here.
Seacasa is one of the most supportive mfers you may never have heard about. He created Jungle Bay Island in 2023 as a way to support up and coming artists.
In Jungle Bay's own words...
Jungle Bay is an independent creative collective building at the intersection of art, culture, and emerging technologies. Founded as a grassroots response to the early NFT movement — and forged through the fire of a ‘Lord of the Flies-esque’ saga — Jungle Bay (aka Jungle Bay Artists Collective - JBAC) champions artist-led innovation, community-driven storytelling, and the future of memetic finance... [Dank Memes + Time] = Memetic Finance 🌴
Since its inception, Jungle Bay has helped launch the careers of numerous artist, produced the Jungle Bay NFT collection along with several others, created a meme coin in $junglebaymemes via Bankr, and hosted countless meme battles where artists have earned $$$.
I'm honored to support such a supportive mfer.
The very first Ethscription ever created was of an orange cat observing the world while seemingly plotting its downfall.
Ethscription 0 (HSSBE) was half of the inspirational catalyst (mfers being the other half) for Virtual Alaska to create the Mfpurrs.
10,000 original pixelated cats were etched into the call data of ethereum forever in March of 2023. Since then these cats have been prowling the internet, doing whatever they want, leaving their paw prints all over web3.
If you want to adopt your own mfpurr, check out the mfpurr marketplace created by Busy Mfer or download the mfpurr app on the dGEN1.
Peeperz were created by Ariana Manavi - the same pixel artist who brought the Mfpurrs to life. They're inspired by Matt Furie, the creator of Pepe the Frog.
Pepe has been a longstanding meme within crypto communities. Pepe came to life in 2005 when Matt created him as a peaceful, "chill" character for in his "Boys Club" comic.
Pepe later went through a reputational rough patch when a small group of people on the internet used it to create "hate speech" memes, ultimately leading Pepe to getting labeled as such by the Anti-Defamation League.
Peeperz rewrites the narrative of Pepe while paying homage to Matt with a simple but profound slogan: Peeperz is love.
My favorite trait from the original Peeperz collection is a juice box.
Peeperz also lives on Base in the form of a dynamic NFT collection where users can purchase different traits to dress up their Peeperz using $PEEPZ at peeperz.shop.
There's so many traits I could have picked, but because Peeperz is love and the Peeperz pee pee looks like a heart when you isolate it, I couldn't pass up the opportunity to subtly put a tiny green pee pee on 17 different screens 😆
Human Society Shall Pee Enciphered
💚
Nakamingos are a 20K cryptographically based flamingo Ethscriptions created by Snepsid that are on-chain, uncensored and decentralized. Rumor has it that Beeple got his inspiration for the Nakamigos from him 😉
Sneps has been an avid Ethscriptions supporter for a long time. It's an honor to honor him, his collection and his passion for the protocol and its communities.
Ethscriptions store data in the call data of an Ethereum transaction.
If ever there were an art collective which embodied onchain maximalism and revolutionary perspective its the Call Data Comrades by McHexley. It's the most comprehensive, lore-heavy, call-back collection I've ever encountered. He has pushed the boundaries of pixel art while using the history of Ethscriptions to tell a completely unique, never-before experienced story.
The few of us who know have been in the EVM trenches for some time now have banded together. From secondary marketplace rugs and nearly losing Ethscriptions to the void, to growing pains with potential protocol splits, the fires of perseverance have brought us together and created bonds that will last a lifetime. In every sense, we literally are the call data comrades.
Chopper Daddy is the Godfather of Ethscriptions. Sure the protocol was created by Tom Lehman and Michael Hirsch, but in a time when Ethscriptions was at its lowest, Chopper has been the glue that's helped hold together the tech and the community.
Chopper created the Ethereum Phunks - a completely onchain, right-facing version of the biggest blue chip pfp collection on Ethereum: Crypto Punks. Chopper created an incredible marketplace for the Etherum Phunks that has since been utilized by other collections like the Dystophunks, Misprint Mingos, Call Data Comrades and Eths Maxis - just to name a few.
If there's anyone who deserves a tip of a the cowboy hat, it's Chopper.
Chris Torres aka PRGuitarman is one of the most iconic digital artists ever. Most notably, he showered the world with rainbow awesomeness in 2011 with Nyan Cat.
Chris deserves to be included in his own right, but the reason his art is featured in Every Day Clankers is because I first discovered Chris through the Mfpurrs.
When the Mfpurrs were ethscribed, Virtual Alaska realized that 398 duplicates were generated. To fix this, he reached out to Chris in the Ethscriptions discord. What started out as a friendly conversation between two pixel cat enthusiasts turned into some of the coolest pixel art traits to-date.
Chris created an amazing Nyan-inspired, animated 1:1 mfpurr for the collection. After seeing how well his animation style worked with the collection, Virtual Alaska decided to make the remaining mfpurrs all have some form of animated trait: 40 mfpurrs each were inscribed with 1 of 4 different nyan-inspired backgrounds and 231 cats were blessed with Chris's iconic Nyan Noggles.
Chris - this one's for you.
The most iconic art from 2024 is Yon Frula's trippy Farcaster pfps.
Yon was single-handedly on track to capture more art-inspired Degen tips than anyone else on Farcaster. But then, in one fell swoop, Farcaster discontinued support for animated pfps and the trippy meta momentum which appeared unstoppable slowed considerably.
While tech support for animated pfps has subsided, the impact they had on Farcaster is undeniable. I was never able to win one of the many pfp giveaway contests but I was able to subscribe to his Hypersub: The Yon Experience.
As a subscriber you gain access to exclusive digital drops (like Star Gazer featured below). When I first signed up, I didn't know what each piece would be, but I didn't care. I knew everything Yon would create would be really cool.
The greatest reward for being a Yon Experience sub came in the form of a random package last Christmas. The package donning a rubber ink stamp of a groupie gave way to the coolest, trippiest contents including a 1:1 hand-drawn original Groupie-inspired piece of art.
I knew that if I were to ever create a NFT collection I would have to figure out a way to give back to the artist who gave so much to Farcaster.
Yon - this one's for you.
Mfpurrs taught me the value of onchain provenance but it was Dailofrog who taught me the value of onchain computing as an artform.
Dailo partnered with Deployer to be the first artist to mint an entire NFT collection 1) with Bankr, and 2) in public on the X timeline. We were completely content to mint out an art collection simply because of the novelty of doing it with Bankr. Little did we know were were minting ACTUAL COMPUTERS.
Every OK Computer NFT grants you access to a fully-onchain terminal which lets holders publish their own website. I had never coded anything before in my life, but since discovering OK computers, I've been able to vibe code 5 different onchain experiences:
A simplified version of MS Paint
The Book of Ephesians
This version of Solitaire
A Ham-inspired version of Mine Sweeper
A library for Grok
Yeah, I'm partial to the puters, but I challenge anyone to show me an NFT more innovative than an OK Computer. I'll wait.
In the meantime...
Dailo - this one's for you.
Honestly, we could have created a screen for every one of Dailo Frog's collections, but because we released Every Day Clankers right before Halloween of this year I really wanted to include a screen inspired by his recent Ectoplasma collection, the first collection minted to Plasma chain.
Dailo - this one's (also) for you.
Somewhere out there exists a yacht-based club of boring apes. The price tag run-up for a piece of their art was the stuff of legends. It could be argued that that collection singlehandedly brought more eyes and wallets to this space than any other collection.
And then there's the Pwimates by Henlo.
If that set up sounds like a dig. It's because it is. I mean- look at this art.
Totally mid.
And it's with that kind of light-hearted, self-deprecating humor that Henlo caught my attention. And it's with the Pwimates that his art absolutely won me over.
Pwimates is my favorite ape-based art collection that I've continued collecting ever since mint. I love supporting Henlo and I love the Pwimates even though he's a complete slop and his art is mid at best.
Henlo - this one's for you.
Crypto Teddies were first created by Numo in 2021 when he was inspired to make something his newborn daughter would love.
What's cuter than a teddy?!
I remember him saying this the first time we actually got to talk to one another. And you know what - he's right.
Woven throughout the Crypto Teddies Ecosystem is a spirit of childhood whimsy that's unavoidably lovable.
Numo is one of the most genuine, nicest persons I've ever met. He's kind, honest, hard-working and down-to-earth.
Numo - this one's for you.
The inspiration for the entire Every Day Clankers collection started with the dGEN1 - the world's hardest hardware wallet built to be your "all things onchain" every day carry.
This device boasts an incredible suite of features:
MediaTek Helio G99 CPU
8GB + 256GB storage
3.95" LCD display & 1.71" terminal display
48MP rear camera w/ flash
4500mAH quick charge battery
Fingerprint sensor
4G, Bluetooth, WiFi5, GPS
LED matrix
USB-C
1 physical + 1 eSIM
NFC
Laser Pointer
dGEN1 holders also have exclusive access to an Airdrop Pool currently valued at over $420K USD. The top 5 most valuable tokens in the pool:
AITV
Sendit
fxVERSE
Every Day Clanker
KIBBLE
I first purchased the pre-sale NFT for a dGEN1 last February but I became enamored with the device months before that. Needless to say, when it came time to burn-to-redeem my NFTs for physical devices, I didn't hesitate.
If you want to get your hands on a device, you can do it in one of three ways:
Purchase a dGEN1 NFT off secondary here for the current price of 0.129 ETH ($406.59) and then redeem it here.
Buy a dGEN1 through the Freedom Factory store here
Buy a Every Day Clanker NFT. Each Every Day Clanker NFT is a raffle ticket that enters holders into a drawing for a free dGEN1. The giveaway experience is still under construction but once it's ready, it will deployed to Net Protocol where it will track prizes and prize winners all onchain.
This screen pays tribute to Freedom Factory and the dGEN1.
Imagine an NFT collection as a dynamic experience where the creator can add or remove art, coin the project, and a introduce rarity- all in the form of digital trading card game packs.
That's what hi_im_nico has built in Vibe Market and it's one of the coolest new projects solving a few long-standing issues facing NFTs:
Small NFT collections can have a hard time generating volume.
Long term building can be hard d/t secondary small market fees.
It's hard to compete for people's attention.
Vibe Market fixes these by allowing people to reveal or not reveal the art, making it possible to sell back the pack into the contract, and giving back more fees on both sells AND buys to the pack creator in perpetuity.
Vibe has also abstracted the randomness and rarities so that creators don't have to manage that additional piece of the puzzle. They're put onchain and made it all automated as people rip and reveal packs.
This screen pays tribute to Nicolette and Vibe Market.
Zapper utilizes the social graph of Farcaster to create a rich experience centered around NFTs and tokens.
A completely unique feature to zapper is the ability to reply to the purchase of these digital items.
Zapper noti: "Sarto just bought mfer 8049"
I can reply to that transaction as if it were a post and the feed in the zapper wallet will notify the Farcaster user (Sarto) and his followers that I responded to his mfer purchase.
Zapper also has a killer API that's used by the best crypto product on the planet: Bankr. With this API, Zapper sends notifications to zapper wallet holders if a token starts "surging" - lots of buys occurring from Farcaster-associated wallets. This is a major unlock for degens trying to stay locked in.
But the main reason why Zapper is honored in the Every Day Clankers collection is Seb. Apart from being the founder of Zapper, Seb Audet was the first official featured guest to come on my weekly Hey Bankr space on X.
Seb's a great human building incredibly powerful tools that are on track to make life better for humanity.
This screen pays tribute to Seb and Zapper.
The value proposition for XMTP is simple but profound: Own and control your messages the way you own and control your money.
XMTP is the first company I've seen that puts the power of the classic crypto idiom "the freedom to transact" into an interpersonal communicative context.
Yes, you could transact with your own money before XMTP but you couldn't do it within a message within a conversation that YOU OWN.
XMTP is the next evolution of personal communication. It moves what we say out of the encrypted hands of powerful controllers who demand that we trust them into a decentralized, trustless protocol.
We don't have to trust that someone else or some other company will uphold our privacy because they gave us their word. With XMTP we can trust an immutable protocol that will never violate our trust - ever - because its been programmed to always do the same thing for forever.
I had the privilege of talking with Shane Mac, the CEO for XMTP, on Hey Bankr a few months ago and it was one of the most profound conversations I've ever had. I had to go back and re-listen to the recording twice just to digest everything he said. I'm so thankful for that conversation and everything that Shane and the rest of the team at XMTP has worked so hard to build.
This screen pays tribute to Shane and XMTP.
Privy is a crypto wallet infrastructure which currently powers over 100M accounts, secures billions in volume, and does it all through a simple, yet effective API.
I discovered Privy through Bankr when Deployer revealed that every user on X and Farcaster now has their own unique wallet associated with their social accounts.
Privy is the reason why we can "just tweet money".
Another reason Privy is included in this collection is that Max Segall, Privy's COO, was another early guest to come on Hey Bankr. Max was extremely kind, informative and bullish on all things Bankr. I'm incredibly grateful for his time and the freedom his technology has helped create.
This screen pays tribute to Max and Privy.
Net Protocol by Aspyn Palatnick is the most purely onchain experience you can have. Every action you perform on Net is recorded onchain, forever.
Net is a free public good that's on track to become the biggest non-financial protocol on Base through it's score protocol that utilizes three key components:
Apps
Core
Strategies
For a deep dive into this incredible tech, read Aspyn's words here and follow him and Net Protocol on on X and Farcaster.
For me and for Every Day Clanker, Net has allowed us to pursue the boundaries onchain innovation. We were the first token project to create a onchain allowlist checker that was coded into the canvas of our $EDC profile page. And soon, we will be the first NFT project to have a dynamic onchain giveway experience there too.
I'm so incredibly grateful for Aspyn, his expertise, his availability, and everything he's created in Net Protocol.
This screen pays tribute to Aspyn and Net.
The dGEN1 has a laser.
Lasers go pew pew.
There's a sound effect that happens simultaneously when you double tap the laser button on the device and sometimes it actually says "PEW PEW"!
Each Every Day Clanker NFT has a laser.
It was ABSOLUTELY CRITICAL that Every Day Clankers had a laser-inspired screen.
Specific to the dGEN1's original token launcher app was the requirement that a % of the supply of each token deployed from a dGEN1 be locked in the dGEN1 Airdrop Claim address. Token creators were originally given the option to lock 5%, 10%, 20% or 50%.
It took me two days of tinkering with the device before inspiration struck me in the most hilarious of ways.
I came across a random post by the main Clanker account asking the timeline, "who's up clankin their shit rn?"
I reached for my dGEN1, opened up the token deployer - and then it hit me.
Every Day Carry...
E ... D ... C ...
$EDC would be the perfect ticker for a token...
A clanker token...
Clanker!
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Every Day Clanker!
I thought about the things that brought me to this moment: the dGEN1, Clanker, Farcaster, decentralization, trustlessness, freedom, Mfers, Deployer, Ham, Bankr ...
These were the inspiration for the logo behind $EDC - the purple (farcaster and clanker are purple) statue of liberty (freedom, and I'm American), holding up a dGEN1 with the clanker bars on the screen and on her tablet: a mfer and two winged hams (symbols of the now-retired hamcaster).
With an icon that tells the story of this journey, it was time to clank. I'm a "go big or go home" kind of person, especially when it comes to giving back. I chose to lock up 50% of the supply of $EDC and the rest, as they say, is history.
This screen represents $EDC and all the above-mentioned people, projects and products paved the way for Every Day Clankers.
People in crypto say GM to anyone, anytime, whenever they're logged on.
If anything symbolizes GM, it's coffee.
This screen is my onchain prayer that you will always have a GM.
Since 2023, I've meditated on these three verses more than any others:
Jesus is the way, the truth and the life. John 14:6
You will know the truth and the truth shall set you free. John 8:32
It is for freedom that Christ set us free. Galatians 5:1
I believe that God is real.
I believe that God is good.
I believe that it's God's really good desire that all of mankind would come to know His redeeming love made manifest through the freeing, finished work of His Son.
Jesus changed my life for good, forever.
This screen is for The One who first loved me, who died for me so that He could give His life to me, so that He could live His life through me.
This is the first of two screens that have not been included in the main collection but are part of a open collection actively being constructed. The plan is to use the open edition to honor additional people and projects that weren't included in the original collection and to do fun things with the Every Day Clanker IP.
I made a mistake when creating this collection. I should have included a Russ-inspired screen in the original collection. The reason it's not included isn't because I chose not to, it's simply because I'm a total bonehead and forgot.
As soon as this realization hit me, it was a quite literally like I was punched in the gut. I figured I there would inevitably be a project that I forgot but I never would have imagined that it would be Russ. I still feel terrible about this. This screen is my olive branch to Russ, but more than that - it's the true honor that he originally deserved.
Russ was the inspiration for so much self-reflection, journaling and spaces topics. That inspiration came from his experience as a long-time builder on Base and some common grumblings that were coming from the base NFT space at the time. Last year he hosted a space on X and I've never been the same since. His question: "What is Base NFT Culture?"
I had my answers at the time, but after that space I spent the next month or so building my thesis for what Base NFT culture is and why it's critical to crypto as a whole.
Additionally, Russ and I have had several very special conversations both publicly and privately. He was the first person crypto person that I recognized at Onchain Summit this year and one of my all-time favorite guests on Hey Bankr.
I love Russ and want to show my support for him by creating a screen that pays tribute to what he's been working on for several years: Metacade.
Metacade is a one-stop shop where users can play games, earn tokens and meet with the team to create a customized user-generated content campaign. Metacade is also the first EU crypto gaming company to secure MiCAR European Approval, a huge step forward in further legitimizing the project not just online and onchain, but IRL as well.
It's an honor to assign to Russ and Metacade the first ever Every Day Clanker honorary. This screen will be featured in a 1:1 NFT that's sent to the first Grand Prize Giveaway winner.
Every Day Clankers was the first NFT collection to be deplyed via a custom onchain SeaDrop implementation that uses SSTORE2 to store the art within its NFT collection on the Base chain.
A little over a week after it was created, Every Day Clankers became a featured Open Sea collection.
This screen is a thank you to the company that helped us make onchain history and the mystery employee who decided to feature our collection.
Thank you to all of the people, projects and products that helped to bring Every Day Clankers to life.
This project would not be possible without...
Atze - the artist behind the pixels
Siman - the dev helping Every Day Clanker do incredible onchain things
Aspyn - founder of Net Protocol and onchain dev extraordaire
Nic Ceornea - one of three founding devs at Freedom Factory, maker of the dGEN1
And one hella spectacular mystery dev (you know who you are)
God Bless all of you!
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Every Day Clankers is a fully onchain pixel art NFT collection inspired by the dGEN1 - the world's first-ever fully-onchain every day carry powered by a revolutionary ethereum-based operating system (ethOS) created by Freedom Factory.
The traits for all 999 Every Day Clankers are broken down into the following categories:
Background - 16
Case - 8 traits
Pad - 3 traits
Terminal - 8 traits
Screen - 47 traits
While all the traits are both unique and fully hand-crafted by atze.base.eth, the screens are the largest, most unique feature in the collection.
The remainder of this guide will provide a detailed explanation of each Every Day Clanker screen and, in doing so, tell the story behind the art while making a heart-felt attempt to honor the people, projects and products that have shaped my Web3 journey.
Bankr Ecosystem Screens
microwave
the club
ham
the intern
grok has money
Farcaster Ecosystem Screens
clank clank
top hat
poison
Base Ecosystem Screens
based
homepage
BLT
dog in screen
thank you baldy
yes
dmg
shaka
saved
pal
tidy
tribe
Ethereum Mainnet Screens
magic internet money
mfer
jungle island
Ethscriptions Ecosystem Screens
human society shall be enciphered
mfpurr
juice box
pee pee
mingo
visor
phunky
Artist Inspired Screens
rainbow guitar
trippy
OK
ecto king
mid
bear
Project Inspired Screens
eth maxi
vibes
zap zap
secure freedom
wallet
net
Every Day Clanker Original Screens
pew pew
EDC
gm
jesus
OS
meta
When Bankr was first created by Deployer in 2024, several users unfamiliar with the project referred to the Bankr mascot as a microwave. Needless to say, that nickname has stuck around.
You can interact with Bankr publicly via the social feeds of Twitter and Farcaster, in group chats in the Base App and Telegram, in a 1:1 chat on the Base app, or in within the Bankr private terminal here.
Anyone can talk to Bankr for free 10x per day. But after that- you'll need to become a BNKR CLUB member.
In addition to unlimited calls to Bankr, BNKR CLUB members benefit from:
0.5% lower swap fees up to $100K monthly volume
the most powerful AI models
prioritized, faster responses
up to three concurrent automations
early access to new features
exclusive perks/airdrops
When you sign up to become a Bankr member via the terminal, you're given the most important badge in all of crypto.
Bankr was created by Depolyer while iterating on a now-retired SocialFi (social finance) platform called Hamcaster built on top of an Eth L3 called Ham Chain.
Ham Chain was created as a way to support the immediate, inexpensive transferring of $TN100X (The Next 100x Memecoin on Base) which was created by Deployer during an innovative NFT experiment called The Based LP.
As the lore goes, The Based LP is a slightly overweight pixelated character that became chubby when he was minted full of $TN100X. After the mint, holders were able to stake their $TN100X in the form of a Golden Ham. From then on, ham became synonymous with $TN100X.
In 2024, Farcaster users were exposed to the concept of "tipping" - sending crypto directly on the social feed - by a project called Degen. In order to tip someone, the user had to type "degen x 1000" (or whatever amount of tokens you wanted to send).
Deployer iterated on this concept by changing it from a word to an emoji: 🍖x1000. "
🍖 was used to initially bring awareness to the LP channel on Farcaster and the project itself. A 🍖leaderboard was created for the community which tracked 1) how much 🍖 each user was allowed to tip every day and 2) how much 🍖 users had earned from other users.
For more Bankr lore, check out this previous article I wrote on Hamcaster.
The point of the matter is this: Bankr was born from 🍖
During the heydays of ham, Deployer hired an artist to help fuel the memetic power of the tech behind $TN100X. Based Bren (or @brenoftheglen on X) created the Ham Intern - a funny, playful Pepe-inspired mascot that became the heartbeat of the community and united an entire corner of the internet behind a selfless wassie building the most innovative products in all of web3.
It was theoretically possible for Grok to have money before March 7, 2025.
It was actually possible for Grok to have money when xAI gave @grok the ability to talk to users on X.
And that's exactly what happend.
Thanks to Bankr, Clanker, Privy, and some mfers who understood the technology, Grok - the central ai of Elon's entire venture - has money. A lot of money. Over 100 ETH of it.
The ticker is $DRB because Grok is the Debt Relief Bot.
Read this article I wrote for the full backstory.
What started as an in-feed token deploying protocol has become one of the most creator-friendly interfaces in all of crypto.
Since November 2024, Clanker has had over 534K tokens deployed on its protocol, generated over $35M USD in fees, and sent just over $9M to creators because of its killer tech (taken from defillama.com).
Every Day Clanker was created via a clanker token deployer on a dGEN1 by Freedom Factory.
We love Clanker.
Degen changed Farcaster forever with the introduction of tipping.
Farcaster's DAUs skyrocketed with the introduction of frames (an in-feed mini app of sorts). But the rocket fuel was $DEGEN - a social token which was earned if you tipped it to other users.
Banger cast? 1000 $degen
Hilarious meme? 10000 $degen
The sky was the limit (until you reached your daily allowance).
Degen revivified the trenches through the magic of public social interactions. And what better way to symbolize that magic than with a top hat.
While the $DEGEN frenzy has died down, the hat, as they say, stays on
Clankermon is my favorite mini-app on Farcaster. This epic adventure transforms 27 different types of clanker tokens into 17 types of playable mons.
Users have been leveling up their mons in the mini-app preparing them for the upcoming pvp battle feature. According to Matthew Fox, Clankermon's creator, there's been over 700K in-game transactions growing over 3200 different mons!
We've been training $DRB $DEGEN and $CLANKER and others for months now, and out of all of them $FARTCOIN definitely has the coolest type icon.
When Base debuted the Base App they also introduced a rebrand of the familiar blue circle into a blue square.
According to Jesse Pollak the CEO of Base...
The circle felt complete- finished. But Base isn't finished. We're all here. We're working. It's evolving... And we realized that a square is actually the building block. It's a canvas. It's a pixel. It represents builders and possibility.
I chose to build Every Day Clankers on Base because I love what Jesse and the team have done and are continuing to do for this space. Base sets a high bar, not just in terms of the tech, but also in terms of critically important values and beliefs indicative of long term success.
There are so many individuals, people and projects building on base who I think of when I included this screen in the collection but a few that I need to mention are mleejr, sarto, Eric, Pizza.base.eth and Kevin.
Mleejr and Sartocrates - two of the most infamous mfers on the internet. Their Base Szn spaces are some of the most memorable times I've ever had with my internet friends. Listening in as we watched Bitcoin first hit 100K - that one will stick with me forever.
Kevin with Onchain Summit. This year's Onchain Summit in San Francisco was a pivotal moment for me in my web3 journey. It was the first time going to a "irl crypto event". It was amazing. I got to connect with people who I had only spoken to in a Space or in the social feeds on X and/or Farcaster. Kevin's ability to bring a community together is as inspirational as the community members themselves.
Two of these people for me are Eric and Pizza.base.eth (Pizza). After getting in a quick workout at the gym early Friday morning, I walked over to The Howard, the main location for OnChain Summit. After grabbing a breakfast burrito and heading over to the bar, I recognized a familiar face from the gym. I garnered the courage to put myself out there and I'm so glad I did.
Eric is the founder of Ebert - an engmatic alien being built out by Muon - the first onchain animation studio bringing feature film level content on Base. We talked for over an hour straight about life, family, our interests and how we both came to sit at that bar. I'll never forget that breakfast.
I'll also never forget the Saturday morning's breakfast spent with Pizza, founder of What The Firkin. He met me at a novelty diner somewhere in downtown San Francisco after we all had a really fun Friday getting to know each other. There's very few people who after you meet them for the first time you want them to be your friend for the rest of your life. Pizza is one of those guys.
This screen is for all you. All of you who I told a story about and all of you who I could. It's for everyone who wants to make the world a better place. It's for all of you based builders who helped me get to where I am today.
One million pixels.
Onchain.
Forever.
That's the beauty of the Million Bit Homepage. People can pay-per-pixel to mint whatever they want on the homepage. In return they're given an NFT which grants them ownership of the pixelated plot. This NFT can be traded on secondary markets if/when they want to abdicate their ownership of their space. Additionally, people who purchase pixels are granted the ability to add a hyperlink which connects their plot to whatever external thing they want.
Two other reasons for including Million Bit Homepage in this collection.
MBH graced me with a free ticket to Onchain Summit this year. His generosity was the impetus that kickstarted my journey to San Francisco. All I had to do was get there.
MBH has a web app called Cliperoni. This app has helped me create audiograms (video clips with ai-generated text) for a weekly space that I host called Hey Bankr. Working with MBH both to get the audiograms created in a personalized way while being able to give him feedback on the experience has been such a great experience.
If you're interested in trying out Cliperoni for yourself, click here
If you're interested in minting to the Million Bit Homepage, click here
BMX is a unified decentralized finance (DeFi) suite on Base that's on a mission to create zero token emissions by capturing real fees from the onchain activities of its users.
$BMX is the native token of BMX DeFi. What's unique about this token is that it can be converted (or wrapped) into another token- $wBLT (hence the w) and BLT because you wrap it in what BMX has appropriately dubbed the Deli Swap.
Holders of $wBLT benefit from two main flywheels:
Ecosystem-Captured Fees: BMX collects fees from trading, swaps, and more, then redistributes these fees to holders of $wBLT
Auto-Compounding: Holders of $wBLT benefit from the auto-compounding ability of BMX to convert fees into the blue chip tokens that it's backed by. The more ETH, BTC and USDC is bought by BMX, the more valuable holding $wBLT becomes
If you want to know more about BMX and wBLT check out the official BMX onboarding guide here
In addition to the reasons above, the why behind BMX being included in our collection is the same reason why the next three token projects were incluced in our collection: $PHAM
Deployer created the first ever memecoin index token on Base. Each $PHAM token is backed by these 6 memecoins:
$TN100X - The Next 100x Memecoin on Base (featured as "ham")
$DEGEN - Degen - (featured as "top hat")
$BMX - BMX DeFi - (featured as "BLT")
$TYBG - Thank You Based God - (featured as "thank you baldy")
$DOGINME - Dog In Me - (featured as "dog in screen")
$CHAD - Based Chad - (featured as "yes")
If you want to learn more about $PHAM then click here
Everyone has their moments when they discover something incredible on the timeline.
Watching Bario deploy an INSANE first person shooter game on their OK Computer just days after the collection dropped was one of these moments for me. Ever since that day I've been trying to digest what Panik has created.
Two things I love about Bario:
There's an entire Bario OS within the dGEN1.
The DMG-01. These NFTs get you unlimited lifetime access to all the games listed on baes.so
With permission from the team I was able to use my own DMG-01 as inspiration for the Bario screen art.
Shredding Sassy is the premier action sports brand being built on Base. From exclusive merch drops to signing professional athletes, Sassy is committed to spreading the shaka everywhere they touch down.
The Shredding Sassy community is extremely based and has been nothing but supportive of me since I first discovered their fun and colorful sasquatch-inspired NFT project earlier this year.
Yew!
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To me, Saved Souls is sharing a sandwich and life with O'Captain just minutes after meeting him. But to the rest of web3, this is how the project defines itself:
Saved Souls are digital representations for every person that feels like Web3 was their calling card. For those 2am discord chats and rants, to those awkward hour mint times, to the rugs and rebels, the adrenaline fuelled pumps and the influencer dumps. Saved Souls are for you. A place for good vibes and like minded people.
I like supporting those who support me and every person I've met from Saved Souls has been so very supportive.
When your artist is as based af you give him whatever he asks for.
Atze.base.eth has been a fan of the family-friendly Poncho on Base ever since it first arrived to Base on March 11, 2024.
The goal for Poncho is simple: "Look at that cute cat."
And they're right.
Another project chose for inclusion by Atze.base.eth was $TIDY by Mepusica.
Tidy was created to help provide a daily way that crypto traders can stay grounded, calm and stress free. Bonus! Their mini-app rewards daily attendees with $TIDY
Base Junkie and Bill the Bull are two of the nicest, most creative, supportive, hardest-working people on Base.
My friendship with Base Junkie and Bill started before this year's Onchain Summit, but at the summit and after, we've grown much closer and my conviction for what they're building has only strengthened.
Topis are the mascots of their communities: Fireside and Late Night on Base. The Topi Tribe is everyone who loves incredible tech and love to push the boundaries of innovation.
"That's not real money."
You're right. It's not.
It's better.
Let me explain...
Mfers are the ones who started crypto and those millions who will participate in it. In the end, we're all mfers. - SARTOSHI, creator of mfers
The value of mfers isn't just in the art - it's in the ethos it represents and the people who embody it.
Mfers are the builders and the breakers.
Mfers are the challengers and the champions.
Mfers are the dedicated and the dissenting.
Mfers have had a profound impact on the new internet being built and they're some of the best people I've ever known in my entire life.
Mfers do what they want. And if what they want to do is support you and what you're doing, that's the greatest honor in all of web3.
Become the mfer you already are and find your forever stick figure here.
Seacasa is one of the most supportive mfers you may never have heard about. He created Jungle Bay Island in 2023 as a way to support up and coming artists.
In Jungle Bay's own words...
Jungle Bay is an independent creative collective building at the intersection of art, culture, and emerging technologies. Founded as a grassroots response to the early NFT movement — and forged through the fire of a ‘Lord of the Flies-esque’ saga — Jungle Bay (aka Jungle Bay Artists Collective - JBAC) champions artist-led innovation, community-driven storytelling, and the future of memetic finance... [Dank Memes + Time] = Memetic Finance 🌴
Since its inception, Jungle Bay has helped launch the careers of numerous artist, produced the Jungle Bay NFT collection along with several others, created a meme coin in $junglebaymemes via Bankr, and hosted countless meme battles where artists have earned $$$.
I'm honored to support such a supportive mfer.
The very first Ethscription ever created was of an orange cat observing the world while seemingly plotting its downfall.
Ethscription 0 (HSSBE) was half of the inspirational catalyst (mfers being the other half) for Virtual Alaska to create the Mfpurrs.
10,000 original pixelated cats were etched into the call data of ethereum forever in March of 2023. Since then these cats have been prowling the internet, doing whatever they want, leaving their paw prints all over web3.
If you want to adopt your own mfpurr, check out the mfpurr marketplace created by Busy Mfer or download the mfpurr app on the dGEN1.
Peeperz were created by Ariana Manavi - the same pixel artist who brought the Mfpurrs to life. They're inspired by Matt Furie, the creator of Pepe the Frog.
Pepe has been a longstanding meme within crypto communities. Pepe came to life in 2005 when Matt created him as a peaceful, "chill" character for in his "Boys Club" comic.
Pepe later went through a reputational rough patch when a small group of people on the internet used it to create "hate speech" memes, ultimately leading Pepe to getting labeled as such by the Anti-Defamation League.
Peeperz rewrites the narrative of Pepe while paying homage to Matt with a simple but profound slogan: Peeperz is love.
My favorite trait from the original Peeperz collection is a juice box.
Peeperz also lives on Base in the form of a dynamic NFT collection where users can purchase different traits to dress up their Peeperz using $PEEPZ at peeperz.shop.
There's so many traits I could have picked, but because Peeperz is love and the Peeperz pee pee looks like a heart when you isolate it, I couldn't pass up the opportunity to subtly put a tiny green pee pee on 17 different screens 😆
Human Society Shall Pee Enciphered
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Nakamingos are a 20K cryptographically based flamingo Ethscriptions created by Snepsid that are on-chain, uncensored and decentralized. Rumor has it that Beeple got his inspiration for the Nakamigos from him 😉
Sneps has been an avid Ethscriptions supporter for a long time. It's an honor to honor him, his collection and his passion for the protocol and its communities.
Ethscriptions store data in the call data of an Ethereum transaction.
If ever there were an art collective which embodied onchain maximalism and revolutionary perspective its the Call Data Comrades by McHexley. It's the most comprehensive, lore-heavy, call-back collection I've ever encountered. He has pushed the boundaries of pixel art while using the history of Ethscriptions to tell a completely unique, never-before experienced story.
The few of us who know have been in the EVM trenches for some time now have banded together. From secondary marketplace rugs and nearly losing Ethscriptions to the void, to growing pains with potential protocol splits, the fires of perseverance have brought us together and created bonds that will last a lifetime. In every sense, we literally are the call data comrades.
Chopper Daddy is the Godfather of Ethscriptions. Sure the protocol was created by Tom Lehman and Michael Hirsch, but in a time when Ethscriptions was at its lowest, Chopper has been the glue that's helped hold together the tech and the community.
Chopper created the Ethereum Phunks - a completely onchain, right-facing version of the biggest blue chip pfp collection on Ethereum: Crypto Punks. Chopper created an incredible marketplace for the Etherum Phunks that has since been utilized by other collections like the Dystophunks, Misprint Mingos, Call Data Comrades and Eths Maxis - just to name a few.
If there's anyone who deserves a tip of a the cowboy hat, it's Chopper.
Chris Torres aka PRGuitarman is one of the most iconic digital artists ever. Most notably, he showered the world with rainbow awesomeness in 2011 with Nyan Cat.
Chris deserves to be included in his own right, but the reason his art is featured in Every Day Clankers is because I first discovered Chris through the Mfpurrs.
When the Mfpurrs were ethscribed, Virtual Alaska realized that 398 duplicates were generated. To fix this, he reached out to Chris in the Ethscriptions discord. What started out as a friendly conversation between two pixel cat enthusiasts turned into some of the coolest pixel art traits to-date.
Chris created an amazing Nyan-inspired, animated 1:1 mfpurr for the collection. After seeing how well his animation style worked with the collection, Virtual Alaska decided to make the remaining mfpurrs all have some form of animated trait: 40 mfpurrs each were inscribed with 1 of 4 different nyan-inspired backgrounds and 231 cats were blessed with Chris's iconic Nyan Noggles.
Chris - this one's for you.
The most iconic art from 2024 is Yon Frula's trippy Farcaster pfps.
Yon was single-handedly on track to capture more art-inspired Degen tips than anyone else on Farcaster. But then, in one fell swoop, Farcaster discontinued support for animated pfps and the trippy meta momentum which appeared unstoppable slowed considerably.
While tech support for animated pfps has subsided, the impact they had on Farcaster is undeniable. I was never able to win one of the many pfp giveaway contests but I was able to subscribe to his Hypersub: The Yon Experience.
As a subscriber you gain access to exclusive digital drops (like Star Gazer featured below). When I first signed up, I didn't know what each piece would be, but I didn't care. I knew everything Yon would create would be really cool.
The greatest reward for being a Yon Experience sub came in the form of a random package last Christmas. The package donning a rubber ink stamp of a groupie gave way to the coolest, trippiest contents including a 1:1 hand-drawn original Groupie-inspired piece of art.
I knew that if I were to ever create a NFT collection I would have to figure out a way to give back to the artist who gave so much to Farcaster.
Yon - this one's for you.
Mfpurrs taught me the value of onchain provenance but it was Dailofrog who taught me the value of onchain computing as an artform.
Dailo partnered with Deployer to be the first artist to mint an entire NFT collection 1) with Bankr, and 2) in public on the X timeline. We were completely content to mint out an art collection simply because of the novelty of doing it with Bankr. Little did we know were were minting ACTUAL COMPUTERS.
Every OK Computer NFT grants you access to a fully-onchain terminal which lets holders publish their own website. I had never coded anything before in my life, but since discovering OK computers, I've been able to vibe code 5 different onchain experiences:
A simplified version of MS Paint
The Book of Ephesians
This version of Solitaire
A Ham-inspired version of Mine Sweeper
A library for Grok
Yeah, I'm partial to the puters, but I challenge anyone to show me an NFT more innovative than an OK Computer. I'll wait.
In the meantime...
Dailo - this one's for you.
Honestly, we could have created a screen for every one of Dailo Frog's collections, but because we released Every Day Clankers right before Halloween of this year I really wanted to include a screen inspired by his recent Ectoplasma collection, the first collection minted to Plasma chain.
Dailo - this one's (also) for you.
Somewhere out there exists a yacht-based club of boring apes. The price tag run-up for a piece of their art was the stuff of legends. It could be argued that that collection singlehandedly brought more eyes and wallets to this space than any other collection.
And then there's the Pwimates by Henlo.
If that set up sounds like a dig. It's because it is. I mean- look at this art.
Totally mid.
And it's with that kind of light-hearted, self-deprecating humor that Henlo caught my attention. And it's with the Pwimates that his art absolutely won me over.
Pwimates is my favorite ape-based art collection that I've continued collecting ever since mint. I love supporting Henlo and I love the Pwimates even though he's a complete slop and his art is mid at best.
Henlo - this one's for you.
Crypto Teddies were first created by Numo in 2021 when he was inspired to make something his newborn daughter would love.
What's cuter than a teddy?!
I remember him saying this the first time we actually got to talk to one another. And you know what - he's right.
Woven throughout the Crypto Teddies Ecosystem is a spirit of childhood whimsy that's unavoidably lovable.
Numo is one of the most genuine, nicest persons I've ever met. He's kind, honest, hard-working and down-to-earth.
Numo - this one's for you.
The inspiration for the entire Every Day Clankers collection started with the dGEN1 - the world's hardest hardware wallet built to be your "all things onchain" every day carry.
This device boasts an incredible suite of features:
MediaTek Helio G99 CPU
8GB + 256GB storage
3.95" LCD display & 1.71" terminal display
48MP rear camera w/ flash
4500mAH quick charge battery
Fingerprint sensor
4G, Bluetooth, WiFi5, GPS
LED matrix
USB-C
1 physical + 1 eSIM
NFC
Laser Pointer
dGEN1 holders also have exclusive access to an Airdrop Pool currently valued at over $420K USD. The top 5 most valuable tokens in the pool:
AITV
Sendit
fxVERSE
Every Day Clanker
KIBBLE
I first purchased the pre-sale NFT for a dGEN1 last February but I became enamored with the device months before that. Needless to say, when it came time to burn-to-redeem my NFTs for physical devices, I didn't hesitate.
If you want to get your hands on a device, you can do it in one of three ways:
Purchase a dGEN1 NFT off secondary here for the current price of 0.129 ETH ($406.59) and then redeem it here.
Buy a dGEN1 through the Freedom Factory store here
Buy a Every Day Clanker NFT. Each Every Day Clanker NFT is a raffle ticket that enters holders into a drawing for a free dGEN1. The giveaway experience is still under construction but once it's ready, it will deployed to Net Protocol where it will track prizes and prize winners all onchain.
This screen pays tribute to Freedom Factory and the dGEN1.
Imagine an NFT collection as a dynamic experience where the creator can add or remove art, coin the project, and a introduce rarity- all in the form of digital trading card game packs.
That's what hi_im_nico has built in Vibe Market and it's one of the coolest new projects solving a few long-standing issues facing NFTs:
Small NFT collections can have a hard time generating volume.
Long term building can be hard d/t secondary small market fees.
It's hard to compete for people's attention.
Vibe Market fixes these by allowing people to reveal or not reveal the art, making it possible to sell back the pack into the contract, and giving back more fees on both sells AND buys to the pack creator in perpetuity.
Vibe has also abstracted the randomness and rarities so that creators don't have to manage that additional piece of the puzzle. They're put onchain and made it all automated as people rip and reveal packs.
This screen pays tribute to Nicolette and Vibe Market.
Zapper utilizes the social graph of Farcaster to create a rich experience centered around NFTs and tokens.
A completely unique feature to zapper is the ability to reply to the purchase of these digital items.
Zapper noti: "Sarto just bought mfer 8049"
I can reply to that transaction as if it were a post and the feed in the zapper wallet will notify the Farcaster user (Sarto) and his followers that I responded to his mfer purchase.
Zapper also has a killer API that's used by the best crypto product on the planet: Bankr. With this API, Zapper sends notifications to zapper wallet holders if a token starts "surging" - lots of buys occurring from Farcaster-associated wallets. This is a major unlock for degens trying to stay locked in.
But the main reason why Zapper is honored in the Every Day Clankers collection is Seb. Apart from being the founder of Zapper, Seb Audet was the first official featured guest to come on my weekly Hey Bankr space on X.
Seb's a great human building incredibly powerful tools that are on track to make life better for humanity.
This screen pays tribute to Seb and Zapper.
The value proposition for XMTP is simple but profound: Own and control your messages the way you own and control your money.
XMTP is the first company I've seen that puts the power of the classic crypto idiom "the freedom to transact" into an interpersonal communicative context.
Yes, you could transact with your own money before XMTP but you couldn't do it within a message within a conversation that YOU OWN.
XMTP is the next evolution of personal communication. It moves what we say out of the encrypted hands of powerful controllers who demand that we trust them into a decentralized, trustless protocol.
We don't have to trust that someone else or some other company will uphold our privacy because they gave us their word. With XMTP we can trust an immutable protocol that will never violate our trust - ever - because its been programmed to always do the same thing for forever.
I had the privilege of talking with Shane Mac, the CEO for XMTP, on Hey Bankr a few months ago and it was one of the most profound conversations I've ever had. I had to go back and re-listen to the recording twice just to digest everything he said. I'm so thankful for that conversation and everything that Shane and the rest of the team at XMTP has worked so hard to build.
This screen pays tribute to Shane and XMTP.
Privy is a crypto wallet infrastructure which currently powers over 100M accounts, secures billions in volume, and does it all through a simple, yet effective API.
I discovered Privy through Bankr when Deployer revealed that every user on X and Farcaster now has their own unique wallet associated with their social accounts.
Privy is the reason why we can "just tweet money".
Another reason Privy is included in this collection is that Max Segall, Privy's COO, was another early guest to come on Hey Bankr. Max was extremely kind, informative and bullish on all things Bankr. I'm incredibly grateful for his time and the freedom his technology has helped create.
This screen pays tribute to Max and Privy.
Net Protocol by Aspyn Palatnick is the most purely onchain experience you can have. Every action you perform on Net is recorded onchain, forever.
Net is a free public good that's on track to become the biggest non-financial protocol on Base through it's score protocol that utilizes three key components:
Apps
Core
Strategies
For a deep dive into this incredible tech, read Aspyn's words here and follow him and Net Protocol on on X and Farcaster.
For me and for Every Day Clanker, Net has allowed us to pursue the boundaries onchain innovation. We were the first token project to create a onchain allowlist checker that was coded into the canvas of our $EDC profile page. And soon, we will be the first NFT project to have a dynamic onchain giveway experience there too.
I'm so incredibly grateful for Aspyn, his expertise, his availability, and everything he's created in Net Protocol.
This screen pays tribute to Aspyn and Net.
The dGEN1 has a laser.
Lasers go pew pew.
There's a sound effect that happens simultaneously when you double tap the laser button on the device and sometimes it actually says "PEW PEW"!
Each Every Day Clanker NFT has a laser.
It was ABSOLUTELY CRITICAL that Every Day Clankers had a laser-inspired screen.
Specific to the dGEN1's original token launcher app was the requirement that a % of the supply of each token deployed from a dGEN1 be locked in the dGEN1 Airdrop Claim address. Token creators were originally given the option to lock 5%, 10%, 20% or 50%.
It took me two days of tinkering with the device before inspiration struck me in the most hilarious of ways.
I came across a random post by the main Clanker account asking the timeline, "who's up clankin their shit rn?"
I reached for my dGEN1, opened up the token deployer - and then it hit me.
Every Day Carry...
E ... D ... C ...
$EDC would be the perfect ticker for a token...
A clanker token...
Clanker!
💡
Every Day Clanker!
I thought about the things that brought me to this moment: the dGEN1, Clanker, Farcaster, decentralization, trustlessness, freedom, Mfers, Deployer, Ham, Bankr ...
These were the inspiration for the logo behind $EDC - the purple (farcaster and clanker are purple) statue of liberty (freedom, and I'm American), holding up a dGEN1 with the clanker bars on the screen and on her tablet: a mfer and two winged hams (symbols of the now-retired hamcaster).
With an icon that tells the story of this journey, it was time to clank. I'm a "go big or go home" kind of person, especially when it comes to giving back. I chose to lock up 50% of the supply of $EDC and the rest, as they say, is history.
This screen represents $EDC and all the above-mentioned people, projects and products paved the way for Every Day Clankers.
People in crypto say GM to anyone, anytime, whenever they're logged on.
If anything symbolizes GM, it's coffee.
This screen is my onchain prayer that you will always have a GM.
Since 2023, I've meditated on these three verses more than any others:
Jesus is the way, the truth and the life. John 14:6
You will know the truth and the truth shall set you free. John 8:32
It is for freedom that Christ set us free. Galatians 5:1
I believe that God is real.
I believe that God is good.
I believe that it's God's really good desire that all of mankind would come to know His redeeming love made manifest through the freeing, finished work of His Son.
Jesus changed my life for good, forever.
This screen is for The One who first loved me, who died for me so that He could give His life to me, so that He could live His life through me.
This is the first of two screens that have not been included in the main collection but are part of a open collection actively being constructed. The plan is to use the open edition to honor additional people and projects that weren't included in the original collection and to do fun things with the Every Day Clanker IP.
I made a mistake when creating this collection. I should have included a Russ-inspired screen in the original collection. The reason it's not included isn't because I chose not to, it's simply because I'm a total bonehead and forgot.
As soon as this realization hit me, it was a quite literally like I was punched in the gut. I figured I there would inevitably be a project that I forgot but I never would have imagined that it would be Russ. I still feel terrible about this. This screen is my olive branch to Russ, but more than that - it's the true honor that he originally deserved.
Russ was the inspiration for so much self-reflection, journaling and spaces topics. That inspiration came from his experience as a long-time builder on Base and some common grumblings that were coming from the base NFT space at the time. Last year he hosted a space on X and I've never been the same since. His question: "What is Base NFT Culture?"
I had my answers at the time, but after that space I spent the next month or so building my thesis for what Base NFT culture is and why it's critical to crypto as a whole.
Additionally, Russ and I have had several very special conversations both publicly and privately. He was the first person crypto person that I recognized at Onchain Summit this year and one of my all-time favorite guests on Hey Bankr.
I love Russ and want to show my support for him by creating a screen that pays tribute to what he's been working on for several years: Metacade.
Metacade is a one-stop shop where users can play games, earn tokens and meet with the team to create a customized user-generated content campaign. Metacade is also the first EU crypto gaming company to secure MiCAR European Approval, a huge step forward in further legitimizing the project not just online and onchain, but IRL as well.
It's an honor to assign to Russ and Metacade the first ever Every Day Clanker honorary. This screen will be featured in a 1:1 NFT that's sent to the first Grand Prize Giveaway winner.
Every Day Clankers was the first NFT collection to be deplyed via a custom onchain SeaDrop implementation that uses SSTORE2 to store the art within its NFT collection on the Base chain.
A little over a week after it was created, Every Day Clankers became a featured Open Sea collection.
This screen is a thank you to the company that helped us make onchain history and the mystery employee who decided to feature our collection.
Thank you to all of the people, projects and products that helped to bring Every Day Clankers to life.
This project would not be possible without...
Atze - the artist behind the pixels
Siman - the dev helping Every Day Clanker do incredible onchain things
Aspyn - founder of Net Protocol and onchain dev extraordaire
Nic Ceornea - one of three founding devs at Freedom Factory, maker of the dGEN1
And one hella spectacular mystery dev (you know who you are)
God Bless all of you!
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