Bankrbot ends Grok's unintentional token creation spree by disabling interactions on X

Bankrbot ends Grok's unintentional token creation spree by disabling interactions on X

Reported by The Block: The developers of the AI-based memecoin issuance tool Bankrbot have recalibrated the system to stop responding to Grok’s commands.

The adjustment followed Grok’s interactions, which resulted in the creation of 17 tokens, with the most notable one exceeding $40 million in market cap.

The developers of Bankrbot, a popular bot that allows X users to launch memecoins directly from the platform, have recalibrated their system to stop responding to commands from Grok, an AI model developed by Elon Musk's xAI.

The adjustment was prompted by Grok's interactions, which resulted in the creation of 17 tokens, with the most notable one, DRB, attaining a peak market cap exceeding $40 million and now trading at about $18 million.

The situation first arose in early March when a user, @coin_domin, requested Grok on X for a token name suggestion for Bankrbot. In response, Grok suggested the creation of "DebtReliefBot" or DRB, and Bankrbot complied with the request to issue the token using Clanker, an autonomous token deployment tool on the Base blockchain.

This deployment included the setup of a liquidity pool, typically on Uniswap DEX on Base, using what's known as the Clanker protocol. Bankrbot's design includes a feature where a unique wallet address on Base is automatically generated for a user when they first interact directly with the bot.

Such interactions, including direct mentions or commands, trigger the creation of a wallet through the integration of Privy, a Web3 authentication tool that connects X logins with cryptocurrency wallets. Wallet addresses created via Bankr can be managed through its website if a user wants to access it using X credentials.

Initially, to create new tokens, every account needed to hold 5 million Bankr tokens — a requirement that has since been removed. When responses involving Grok suggested Bankrbot deploy the token, its wallet didn’t have enough Bankr tokens. Someone from the Bankrbot community sent the required tokens to Grok's corresponding wallet, which enabled the deployment of the DRB token.

The popularity of Grok and its readiness to suggest token names led to further deployments, with users commanding it to launch 16 other tokens in hopes of leveraging the so-called "Grok brand." As a result, new tokens were created through Bankrbot following Grok's suggestions and deployed on Clanker.

Clanker's protocol makes sure that the smart contracts for these tokens lock in liquidity and allocate creator fees, which are 0.25% of swap fees, to the wallet associated with the token— similar to designs seen in systems like pump.fun on Solana. According to onchain data aggregated on Dune, the wallet associated with Grok's handle has accumulated over half a million dollars in fees from these transactions.

Bankrbot's anonymous founder, who goes by the "Deployer" moniker, said the wallet will attain millionaire status soon.

However, due to concerns about Grok's ability to responsibly manage its own wallet and safeguard funds, Deployer has decided to sever the response mechanism to Grok’s commands. "We’ve made it so Bankr no longer responds to Grok on X. Grok was not built to responsibly manage its own wallet and safeguard its funds," the founder told The Block.

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