Project dossier · evidence record
CRI 44/100
Social-feed-native trading and token-launch agent on Base, backed by Coinbase Ventures.
Claim reliability · 5 scored claims
44/100 · D
1 verified2 partially verified2 unverified0 disputed
“Bankr is a Coinbase Ventures portfolio company (Base Ecosystem Fund).”
Coinbase's own blog lists Bankr with the asterisk denoting Coinbase Ventures portfolio status; the July 2025 Base Ecosystem Fund investment was independently reported. Investment amount undisclosed.
“Bankr generates meaningful fee revenue from token launches and trading.”
Third-party reporting referencing onchain fee data placed annualized revenue past ~$580K with ~$47.6K in 30-day fees as of February 2026. Public Dune dashboards exist but figures have not been independently audited by Basis. Revenue is real but modest relative to the token's ~$50M market capitalization.
Methodology note: Fee data is onchain-checkable in principle; Basis has not yet re-derived the annualized figure from raw settlement data.
“Thousands of agent token deployments via Bankr.”
No independent count of total Bankr token deployments was found in any public source. The Privy case study quantifies only a single token's reach ($DRB, 96k unique traders in under two weeks). One third-party analysis of ~25 Bankr-linked tokens found ~88% had under $10K cumulative volume with no recent activity, indicating most launches do not sustain a market.
Methodology note: Deployment counts are onchain-derivable from deployer contracts; a full re-derivation is queued for a future report.
“Bankr Agent (April 2026): in-browser agent workspace with portable skills and 410 MCP tools via gasless meta-transactions.”
The April 11, 2026 announcement and the public skills repository are confirmed. The specific tool count (410) and the gasless meta-transaction architecture are self-described and have not been independently exercised.
“Strategy libraries integrated into agent memory; agents becoming self-funding and trading nonstop.”
No public source using this phrasing or describing this feature was found. The closest documented feature set is the Bankr Agent skills/workspace announcement, which does not describe strategy libraries in agent memory.
“May 4, 2026: an attacker bypassed Bankr's safety block on Grok via a gifted Bankr Club membership NFT and obfuscated prompt injection, draining ~$150–200K in $DRB.”
Independently documented by SlowMist ("permission chain attack"), The Block, Giskard, and the OECD AI incident registry. Bankr stated ~80% of funds were returned. A separate March 2025 incident drained ~$330K. Recorded as context; this is a third-party finding, not a Bankr claim, and does not affect Bankr's Claim Reliability Index.
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