Everyone: I’m working on a new thing full-time. It started as a Birthday Labs project, and has become its own larger thing, and will be taking all of my time. Rather than prolonging the inevitable, I want to be clear: the new thing is a separate company and product. With a team. It’s not a rebrand or migration. People who previously bet on Native as a bet on me, and because of that tie, there’s a lot of frustration and anger and I get that. I’ve made a lot of mistakes over the last year, and I hope there’s some understanding there from you all. It’s hard. There’s also a lot of folks who are excited about what’s next and they trust me to do right by Native holders. That’s my plan. I will continue to use my personal capital to buy Native. I want to find ways to reward that belief in me, as it’s allowed me to build over the last year. But I’ll be honest: I won’t make new promises about it. What I CAN promise is that I’m *personally* invested in finding the best path forward for people who have supported me via Native. And I’ll prove that. What I can also say for certain: • Native holders will receive access to the new product, which is built • Snapshots are being taken so I have a record of who supported Native, and me The new direction: infrastructure with a dataset that doesn’t exist onchain yet. While not related, it’s in the same domain as Native: mirroring our economy onchain. For Native, I’m happy to work with folks who want to work on the idea. There is a TON of code written for Dots, agents, and the Native context. I’m happy to open-source it, hand it over, etc. if there’s a plan in place. I’m happy to help fund the costs of running it. I’m happy to give over fees to a new group. There’s still a path forward for Native as a project if the community wants it. There’s no easy way to “wind down” a project when there’s an associated token. There are a lot accusations and frustrations and misunderstandings. I hope that when you step back, you see that I’ve: • Used my real identity so that I have to directly deal with this head-on. • Constantly been communicative (the best? No, but I’m here.) • Open to feedback and ideas here • Tried to do the right thing with my ownership • Pushed through difficult times that made it hard for Native, including Base, Clanker, and Farcaster turmoil over the last year. Once again, I’m so very grateful for those of you who understand the difficulty here, and who have been supportive. Thank you.

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Remember when dots were cool

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Derek deleted my Telegram messages and removed me from the group. It's very sad to trust your funds to people who can't stand the truth if they don't like it. And I was one of 15 top holders

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Since Derek is actively deleting messages on Telegram, I'll write my opinion here. Honestly, I don't think there's any new project; it's more likely a ploy to explain the developer's weakness and failure to continue working on Native. Everything Derek started was abandoned. His inability to follow through is, in my opinion, his main problem. No negativity! Now he will wait for a while for everything to calm down and start something else, but after a while he will also give up

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Dot’s screenshots taken off X I always thought Dots were world-beating innovation in this space, conceptually An agent is dealt a hand that manifests as a persona in the agentic interface

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about a week since the $native debacle idk what to think at this point probably infra challenges + comms were weird … but the whole market has crashed anyways, so move on still think the Dots would have been legendary tho

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4 days after we found out that Native wasn't supposed to reach this market size. What dreams were shattered.

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found this guy in the $Native deep dive guess it was a prototype Dot for some guy named ‘dotfinn’ who was a /nativefun reply guy : )

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Went through all the $NATIVE comms to try to piece together a timeline of what happened here, gonna add in these receipts in replies (1-10), the telegram convos are copied into those subcasts. yes it's long, this is meant to be a trail of 'what happened' backed by the official comms across X, FC, and Telegram. (1) $Native launched on Clanker Nov 24, 2024 under Birthday Labs, a Delaware C Corp, a corporate entity that is owned by another US-based LLC, which is owned by derek and his wife (2) main innovation said to be launched (was never launched) is the Dots, an agentic economy that would use $Native as the main currency: $Zorro, $Balloons, and $Panes were also launched as Clankers under Birthday Labs. see the attached image for what the main concept is/was. comms were active all through 2025 on main accounts until November 2025. (3) @phuzylicious asked on X on Oct. 9, '25 - "Dots ship in 2025?" to which the @nativeonbase X account (run by derek) replied "yes" (4) Derek was running shows on DenDotTV and Pinetree about Native, etc up until Oct. 26 '25; there is a tweet with $NATIVE as the ticker on Nov. 26, '25 where he tagged @ itsbasil ($SKY) and @ fffflood ($OPSYS) on Thanksgiving, which is while he still had it active on his twitter bio (5) Casts about the first "Snapshot" for $NATIVE holders was taken for token holders in late November, with a second "Snapshot" promised in the near future (6) Nov. 30, 2025 - to commemorate the 1 year anniversary of the token, tweets and casts about reflections on $NATIVE, derek mentioned that he has locked another 1% of supply in Hedgey, bringing locked supply up to 2%. Removes reference to $NATIVE from twitter bio. In the metadata prior to Thanksgiving on the referenced farcaster cast, you can see it was still in his twitter bio prior to Thanksgiving (7) There are some casts and replies alluding to issues with the cross-compatibility of mini apps between Base and Farcaster, along with how this is correlated to the opportunity with $NATIVE - reference wording is "hint for those clamoring for any kind of news" in this channel. There is a big discussion in this thread with multiple fc builders about challenges with the "infra" layer here around mini apps. Discussion of "builder compatibility" issues with different clients. Relevant to the coming Telegram convos below (8) "We've been cooking" tweet on @nativeonbase X account on Dec. 18 '25 alludes to project activity, request is made for developers to develop mini apps in the Dots ecosystem. derek reposts the the same on farcaster. (9) “$NATIVE holders are early to the vision. That’s going to matter.” Tweet on Jan. 18 ‘ 26 via nativeonbase account. Indication of reasons to believe imminent activity is coming “The first of two snapshots was taken in December. The second hasn’t yet, and will not be announced. Big weeks ahead.” (10) Dev job announcement for a new company on Jan. 30 ' 2026 in the late afternoon referencing a "team" but unclear for what company. Signal boosted by some builders. Hours later, the $NATIVE ticker would collapse in what will be referenced below from the Telegram conversation where the revelations were made about what is happening.

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phuzy was one of the good ones on here feel especially bad for him, if there is one guy I would love to see someone run it back for ...

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I still can't believe Derek abandoned the Native project. I had been holding the Native token for almost a year. I was eagerly following YouTube and new information coming out of Native. I am sure that many stages of the project had been completed and we had reached the end point. I still don't know what happened to get us to this point and I am in shock.

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Good Night, and Good Luck.

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Almost 48hr. A lot of things happened and a lot more have been said. I have decided that I have faith that Derek good to those who supported him through this project. We will wait and see. If he does, all of it will come back to his favor. If he doesn’t. Well I guess he just proved most people right then?

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$NATIVE is not dead. its gotta get build for my vibe-dating app oh and my two favorite coins: NUDIE MAGAZINE DAY, and the INFOMERCIALS

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https://x.com/FuzzyBull/status/2017802584141312340

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