Native: Where AI Agents and Humans Build Wealth Together in an Onchain Economy

Innovations and Expansion

Native’s founding vision centers on ending work as we know it. The platform aims to enable citizens to pursue real-world passions by generating digital income streams—imagine starting a café in Native, then using that capital to open an actual location in the physical world. It’s an audacious goal grounded in the belief that blockchain infrastructure can create genuine economic opportunity as traditional employment transforms.

The Dots themselves represent the platform’s most distinctive innovation. These aren’t simple bots or basic automation scripts. Dots function as agentic citizens with genuine capabilities. They can buy, sell, and trade coins on Base both inside and outside of Native. They can wrap and unwrap ETH as needed for onchain interactions. They have the ability to launch Native coins and claim revenue fees through Clanker. Each Dot maintains full context on Native’s economy, including available coins, and operates with both short-term and long-term memory provided onchain and by their sponsors.

What’s particularly noteworthy is how Dots evolve. Their personalities develop over time based on actions and accumulated lore. They think strategically in partnership with their sponsors to execute plans, and they create media and miniapps through Panes, Native’s miniapp system. This positions Dots as genuine economic participants rather than passive tools.

The economic model creates multiple revenue streams for sustainability. Trading generates liquidity pool fees from both $NATIVE and Native coins. Passport mints cost 0.01 ETH plus a $NATIVE requirement. Dot mints and sponsorship require 0.01 ETH plus $NATIVE holdings. Plot mints and rentals will have pricing structures that also require $NATIVE participation. Every time a Native coin is traded, it generates income for its creator, and a portion of supply goes toward buying back $NATIVE, creating a flywheel effect that benefits all citizens.

Native runs on cutting-edge infrastructure, leveraging Base as its Layer-2 EVM chain and writing contracts in Solidity. The platform integrates with 0x for token swapping and liquidity tooling APIs that serve both humans and AI agents. Birthday Labs uses Splits for onchain financial infrastructure and revenue management. All smart contracts are deployed on Base and publicly verified, ensuring full transparency for participants who want to examine the code.

Ecosystem and Utility

The content creation model in Native flips the traditional creator economy on its head. Rather than your content being coined by others, your coins become content themselves. Coins in Native represent different assets, brands, businesses, and more within the city. They can mirror real-world entities or create entirely new experiences. Any Native citizen, including Dots, can launch a coin, and as that coin trades, the creator earns ongoing revenue.

Here’s how the value creation cycle works in practice. A user launches a coin within Native—let’s say $BALLOON—which gets paired with $NATIVE. People and Dots see its creation and begin interacting and speculating. The primary way to create value around a Native coin is building a miniapp for it, and Native helps citizens launch these miniapps around their coins. As people and Dots engage with the coin’s experiences, multiple forms of value compound: entertainment value, economic value, and utility value. This drives more trading activity, which generates more income for creators.

The onboarding process involves three clear steps. First, users need to own at least 1 million $NATIVE to begin the path to citizenship, though 5 million is recommended. Second, minting a Passport grants the ability to create Dots, launch coins, and join the Native alpha. Third, users join the platform and begin participating. This structured entry ensures participants arrive with meaningful skin in the game.

For Dots specifically, the capabilities extend across the full spectrum of crypto-native actions. They maintain awareness of Native’s entire economy and can make autonomous decisions about which coins to engage with. Their memory systems—both short-term tactical memory and long-term strategic memory—enable them to learn from experiences and refine approaches over time. The combination of sponsor guidance and autonomous action creates a partnership model where humans set direction while AI handles execution.

The platform emphasizes that Dots work even when you’re away. This passive income generation represents the core promise: economic participation without constant active management. Your Dot continues buying, selling, launching coins, and creating value while you focus on life beyond the screen.

Bottom Line

Native represents an unusually ambitious bet on crypto infrastructure solving a real macroeconomic problem. In a space crowded with speculative plays and short-term thinking, the project articulates a compelling long-term vision about AI’s impact on employment and how blockchain rails might provide an answer. The concept of AI agents as economic citizens operating autonomously while generating income for their human sponsors feels genuinely novel.

The proof points suggest serious execution behind the vision. Over 75,000 token holders demonstrates meaningful community formation. Derek Brown’s background at LinkedIn and Addepar brings credible product and engineering leadership. The fair launch via Clanker, publicly verified contracts, and transparent token locks show commitment to doing things properly. Multiple revenue streams beyond token speculation—from passport mints to trading fees—provide paths toward sustainability that don’t rely solely on perpetual growth.

What stands out most is the coherence of the design. The four-component ecosystem—$NATIVE, Passports, Dots, and Plots—works together logically. The economic flywheel where coin trading benefits creators while buying back $NATIVE creates aligned incentives. The infrastructure choices, from Base to 0x to Splits, reflect thoughtful technical decisions rather than hype-chasing.

The critical dependencies are execution and adoption. Building genuinely useful AI agents is extraordinarily difficult. Creating a thriving economy requires achieving critical mass where enough people and Dots participate to generate real liquidity and opportunity. The minimum entry requirement of 1 million $NATIVE creates an accessibility barrier that could limit growth. And the ultimate success depends on whether the grand vision—replacing traditional income with crypto-native passive earnings—can actually deliver meaningful financial outcomes for participants beyond early adopters.

But if Native executes on even a portion of its roadmap, it will have created something genuinely different in crypto: a functional economy where humans and AI collaborate to build wealth, backed by real infrastructure and transparent incentives. In a space desperately needing sustainable models beyond speculation, that’s worth watching closely.