Toady Hawk: Appointed CEO of the token issuance platform Clanker, will promote the restart

Base Security Committee member Toady Hawk announced on November 3rd via X that he has accepted the position of CEO at the token issuance platform Clanker, responsible for driving the platform's restart. He stated that Clanker is now managed by Mask Network, which is also the manager of Firefly and Lens Protocol, and has collaborated with the engineering team to promote the restart, with more arrangements to be announced later.

Toady Hawk recalled that Clanker was born about two years ago on Farcaster, where users could post on the timeline and tag the platform to issue tokens. The platform later expanded to X and once became the highest trading volume token issuance platform on Base, with related communities including BNKR, DRB, and FAIR. He mentioned that the platform subsequently experienced changes due to early founder controversies, being sold to Farcaster, and the handover to Neynar, which affected it multiple times over the past 18 months. He also stated that he has been working independently since he was 17 and prefers to manage projects he personally founded, but has accepted this position.

His listed priorities after taking office include: updating the brand while retaining its original features, improving external communication, and collaborating with the engineering team to align functionalities with current mainstream issuance platforms, covering stock trading pairs, new chain support, and an unnamed first-day support feature. Other matters include rebuilding trust between builders and the trading community, supporting early communities still under construction, and bringing new issuance activities back to the information flow. He also stated that he will assist in planning projects for issuing meme tokens, stock trading pairs, or application tokens, and collaborate with developers who wish to continue building based on the Clanker protocol. The official Clanker account responded on the same day, stating that the restart is in progress.