Native

Today, I want to share lessons from the $NATIVE alpha.

The first lesson: Native's core idea works.

Launch a real-world coin, earn income.

These real-world coins put no burden on users. You're not a "dev" in Native.

Next? Build an agentic game economy around real-world coins.

There have been ≈150 users on the alpha.

Over $200,000 in earnings generated, according to @_proxystudio & co.

Native has already become the 3rd largest @clankeronbase interface, after Clanker itself and @bankrbot, in 37 days.

And I'm just getting started.

🧵 time for a thread! 

clanker v3.1 launched on March 18th 2025 

#CLANKER features:

✅ permissionless deployments
✅ creator vaults
✅ dev buys
✅ social context
✅ mutable metadata

CREATORS  have earned ~$2m on Clanker in only 37 days

$54k for each day that the contracts https://t.co/kwhd4P8dYe

lmao nah but want to see something cool?

top 5 clanker interfaces earnings since 3.1 launched 

can you guess them? I bet NO ONE can guess #3 https://t.co/KAZeCYycbu

clanker

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There have been ≈150 users on the alpha.

Over $200,000 in earnings generated, according to @_proxystudio & co.

Native has already become the 3rd largest @clankeronbase interface, after Clanker itself and @bankrbot, in 37 days.

And I'm just getting started.

https://x.com/_proxystudio/status/1915491498382029251

But it hasn't been without issue. 

I hear you.

Things have been too complicated.

So I'm simplifying things.

Starting with coins.

Swapping for real-world tokens like @jessepollak's $LOTION or @maretus' $BADDER has been complicated and limiting.

Part of the benefit of building onchain is interoperability with other tools.

Obstacles like pairing real-world coins with $NATIVE only hurts users and Native.

That said, I still believe that the future of $NATIVE includes pairings with $NATIVE. 

But we’re not quite ready for that yet. 

In chatting with industry leaders, we’re maybe a few months away from it being seamless.

But for now, the friction is too high.

So starting today: tokens launched via Native are now paired with ETH on @base.

They're still tradable by Dots.

There's still utility for $NATIVE.

But this means that you can finally trade real-world coins like any other.

No friction. No over-complication.

This is just the first simplification coming to Native.

Stay tuned tomorrow for one of the most often requested things I hear from people testing the Native ecosystem out.

Note for those who have been testing the app: if you've launched a token paired with $NATIVE, only you can re-launch it paired with ETH. 

Thanks for testing! 🙏

Hey mister @maretus where’s the $BADDER rn? 
I can’t see my tokens, and can’t even swap it back :((

When creating a token, no. But for swapping/buying/looking up tokens, a lot of the tools we use (swapping, wallets, etc) aren't ready yet.

As I said in the thread, I'm very bullish on $NATIVE-pair, and plan on revisiting.

But there have been many instances of things like this:

When creating a token, no. But for swapping/buying/looking up tokens, a lot of the tools we use (swapping, wallets, etc) aren't ready yet.

As I said in the thread, I'm very bullish on $NATIVE-pair, and plan on revisiting.

But there have been many instances of things like this: https://warpcast.com/mohammadkhan/0x43a5633a

What exactly was complicated about pairing with Native versus ETH? Doesn't virtual do this? I didn't notice any friction when creating token. Can you go into more detail on this? One of the biggest value propositions was a Virtual like system where Native buy pressure would come from agents buying the paired tokens.