Today we talk about a technical term that frequently appears in the official introduction of the Fabric Protocol, but is also the most likely to leave people puzzled - 'Agent-native'. What is this magical concept?
🤖 What is an Agent?
To understand this concept, we can first recall automated trading programs in the cryptocurrency market. A well-written Python trading bot will automatically monitor the data from the exchange (perceiving the environment), determine the market direction based on predefined strategy logic (the brain thinking), and then automatically place buy and sell orders through the API (executing actions), all without human supervision.
This is actually a very standard 'Agent'.
Most current AIs are like passive encyclopedias (you ask a question, it answers). But Agents are different; they are automated entities that can 'perceive the environment ➡️ think and decide autonomously ➡️ take actual actions'.
🧬 What magic comes with adding 'Native'?
Fabric Foundation has brought this concept to physical general robots and added the words 'Native'.
Traditional physical robotic dogs or mechanical arms are essentially high-end remote-controlled toys when they leave the factory, or they can only execute rigid commands. To make them smarter, developers have to externally connect a bunch of complex AI systems and financial payment modules.
But the infrastructure created by Fabric is 'proxy native'. This means that as long as hardware manufacturers connect their devices to the Fabric protocol, these physical robots inherently possess the genes to become 'autonomous agents' from the moment they connect to the internet. They inherently carry blockchain identities, inherently connect to AI computational brains, and inherently have cryptocurrency wallets.
💼 The future where robots are their own bosses
Under the 'proxy native' framework, physical robots are no longer mere tools of humans but can operate as independent economic entities:
Autonomously seeking jobs: A delivery drone equipped with the Fabric protocol discovers a high-paying delivery request nearby; it can calculate battery levels and weather conditions by itself and autonomously decide whether to 'accept the order'.
Economic independence and maintenance: After successfully delivering the package, the employer will deposit $ROBO tokens into the drone's own wallet. If today the drone's propeller breaks, it can even autonomously issue a task, using the $ROBO in its wallet to hire human engineers or other specialized repair robots to fix it!
Fabric Protocol is not creating remote-controlled cars, but is building a new social ecology composed of countless 'autonomous agents'. In this ecology, robots can think for themselves, earn money, spend money, and $ROBO is the only lifeblood driving all of this.