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As a general rule of thumb: whenever you launch a token, it’s important to set clear expectations with your community, traders, and teammates. Underpromise and overdeliver. Steer clear of promising future profits and consult professional legal advice.

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Token Pairings

Clanker tokens can be paired with any ERC-20, although we suggest using a token with deep liquidity for optimal trading. Here’s an example of deploying a clanker paired with another clanker token: https://github.com/clanker-devco/clanker-sdk/blob/main/examples/v4/customPair.ts

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Pairing with USDC

PROS:
  • token price won’t fluctuate in dollar value based on the price of the underlying asset
  • cleaner in dashboards, analytics, marketing, and usually people refer to coin market caps in dollar amounts
  • taxes
CONS:
  • swaps can require multiple pool hops (eth=>USDC=>TOKEN) which can increase txn fees per swap
  • on some chains, a stablecoin may have shallower liquidity compared to the wrapped native token
  • isolates the non-USDC familiar users and countries whose primary currency isn’t USD

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Pairing with WETH (or wrapped native gas token)

PROS:
  • dexes pick up WETH pools easier in general
  • best composability with DEX aggregators, lending protocols, trading bots WETH
CONS:
  • double volatility (token/eth x eth/usd)
  • market cap is seldomly referred to in WETH terms
  • price charts can be misleading as the default y-axis is usually dollar based (see attached images)

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When to use USDC or WETH?

Use USDC for consumer app tokens, stable yield / RWAs, treasury protocols, and maybe governance tokens use WETH for defi-native projects / infra tokens, memes, speculative tokens that are built to bounce up and down

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Episode 1: Clanker 101

Full episode HERE which covers:
  1. what is Clanker?
  2. how to launch a token
  3. fees + token management + adding liquidity
  4. deployment configurations (static vs dynamic fee, reward recipients, creator vault, dev buy, airdrops)
  5. best practices + more!

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Episode 2: LP Management

Full episode HERE which covers:
  • LP fundamentals, strategies & tradeoffs
  • common LP mistakes
  • starting market cap
  • sniper tax mechanics
  • Clanker LP position simulator
  • walkthrough of adding & removing liquidity

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LP position simulator:

  • Simulate LP positions, market cap changes based on buys and sells, and simulate supply purchased through dev buys at various starting market caps: https://clanker.world/lp-simulator