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The Bankr $DRB Surge: When AI Moves Markets

AI-powered trading has taken center stage as Bankr and Grok sparked a viral token boom with $DRB.

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Last week, Bankr, the AI-powered crypto trading companion growing in popularity on X and Farcaster, made waves when it helped deploy $DRB (DebtReliefBot), the first AI-generated token launched via Grok’s suggestion.

The saga began on March 7, 2025, when a user on X asked Grok, X's AI chatbot, to name a token. Grok suggested $DRB, and the user deployed it through Bankr, which leveraged Clanker's token launch protocol.

The result? A viral token explosion. Within three days, $DRB surged to a $38 million market cap, fueled by hype around the novelty of Grok's first unofficial token.

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William M. Peaster

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William M. Peaster, Senior Writer, has been with Bankless since January 2021. Immersed in Ethereum since 2017, he writes the Metaversal newsletter on the onchain frontier, covering everything from AI projects to crypto games, as the team’s lead NFT analyst. With a background in creative writing, he writes fiction and publishes art on Ethereum in his free time. He lives in Washington.

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