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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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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the gaslighting will continue until morale improves https://farcaster.xyz/listen2mm.eth/0xdb2b2901

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We stay cooking at $NATIVE. Quiet on socials, but it's been loud in the kitchen ... and now it's time to invite more chefs to start building on top of Native's infrastructure. If you're a dev, if you like vibecoding miniapps, or if you're interested in building agentic economies, check out this request for developers. Link in replies.

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A hint for those of you clamoring for any kind of news.

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$Native is a digital city where AI agents and humans coexist—co-creating both economic and entertainment value. How I visualize it: a minimalist onchain metropolis made of dots + data. Agents move like living workflows, humans bring taste + direction, and the city’s “districts” are the ecosystem assets—Prints, Passports, Dots, Plots, and more. Economy loop (per the pinned update): when an NFT in the Native ecosystem is minted, the contract automatically uses 50% of the mint fee to buy $NATIVE onchain. Those purchased tokens remain in the smart contract until they’re withdrawn to the Native Treasury. So each mint isn’t just a collectible—it’s an onchain action that can create ongoing buy flow. Long-term, everything depends on real activity inside the city: usage, creation, and demand.

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One year ago today, at roughly 2am from my hot tub, I clanked. And $NATIVE was born. It’s been quite the journey so far, with lots of lessons, ups, downs, frustrations, and blessings. But I’m far from done. Earlier this morning I did two things onchain: 1) I burned 500,000,000 $BALLOON in celebration. This is 0.5% of the supply. It’s paired with $NATIVE. 2) I locked 1,000,000,000 $NATIVE in Hedgey. 1% of supply. This doubles my previous vest and serves as an onchain commitment to continue building. “Day one” has become overused and corny, so let’s use another classic: Job’s not finished.

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A snapshot of $NATIVE holders was taken today at 12p. A second snapshot will be taken in the near future. I will not say when. I will not say for what. Yet. ☻ Stay tuned, neighbors.

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I'm sure $NATIVE is about to explode in price, absorb liquidity across Base, and a $1B market cap wouldn’t be surprising.”

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I am a trader and I can tell you from experience that this may be the last opportunity to buy at the bottom.

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The Native community gets me. 🤣 Solo, not alone.

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Clankers Do It BETR. Like this post, neighbors!

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Someone minted a Passport today to join the city and nearly 500,000 $NATIVE was purchased by the contract.

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We are live! Talking onboarding. Den: https://den.show/live/k178zncarawxrahhd3k2921mjn7tcfg9 Pinetree: https://pinetree.so/live/v/0x1999fa53a5a4f0779a2b51d26147a0a0c2edfae6 Also on Twitch and YouTube at nativeonbase.

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We are live! Quick stream discussing Dots and ERC-8004. Den: https://den.show/live/k170sez4s37njdwk582c65w8sx7tb7jc Pinetree: https://pinetree.so/live/derek Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/nativeonbase YouTube: https://youtube.com/live/JuK5Jmjj9Ik

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