When most projects are still at the white paper stage, a team led by Stanford professor Jan Liphardt and Boyuan Chen from Google DeepMind has already proven the feasibility of "Robot × Crypto" with real-world applications. This "research and engineering" composite team, from top academic institutions and Silicon Valley, secured $20 million in funding from Pantera Capital, Sequoia China, Coinbase Ventures, etc., as early as August 2025, and the backing across Web2 and Web3 itself indicates the certainty of the track.
What Fabric Foundation aims to solve is the most fundamental "last mile" challenge in the large-scale implementation of robots—system fragmentation, inefficient collaboration, and lack of economic capability. Its core product matrix adopts a dual-layer architecture of "operating system + collaboration network": the open-source AI-native operating system OM1 acts like a true "brain" for robots, enabling natural interaction and autonomous decision-making capabilities, and it has already been adapted to various models, including those from Yushu Technology and UBTECH, and is open-sourced on GitHub; while the FABRIC protocol is the collaboration network that allows robots to "know" each other, achieving cross-brand collaboration and automatic settlement through on-chain identities.
The most impactful real-world case comes from the streets of Silicon Valley—through collaboration with Circle, robots equipped with the OM1 system will automatically navigate to charging stations when battery is low, autonomously complete USDC payments, and continue working, all without human involvement. This is the first time machines have autonomous consumption capabilities, truly becoming independent economic nodes. The launch of the BrainPack smart hardware module further lowers the access threshold for traditional manufacturers.
$ROBO is the core settlement and governance asset in this network. Its tokenomics emphasizes "earning rewards through verification work" rather than passive staking; nodes must stake tokens to gain task allocation rights, creating real on-chain demand. Since its launch on Binance at the end of February, ROBO has gradually listed on mainstream exchanges like OKX and Coinbase, with a 24-hour trading volume once exceeding $140 million.
Currently, the $ROBO ongoing trading competition on Binance with a prize pool of $100,000 will last until March 10. Eligible users can participate in the distribution of nearly 2 million token rewards. But this narrative is far beyond short-term incentives—when every delivery robot or robotic arm can autonomously purchase resources and create value through blockchain, it is actually redefining "the distribution rights of productivity". In this historical process of evolution from tools to economic entities, the open infrastructure built by @FabricFND may be the best sample for us to observe the future machine economy.
