While digging into Fabric Protocol during the task, what hit me was how the#robo promised open infrastructure for robot coordination feels gated in practice by the current reliance on $ROBO for even basic identity creation and task participation. The narrative pushes this neutral, shared layer where robots autonomously hold wallets, receive payments, and collaborate without central choke points, yet early interactions show heavy token friction right at. onboarding—minting a robot ID or verifying simple data streams requires holding or spending ROBO upfront. Developers testing small-scale coordination end up front-loading costs before any real economic loop kicks in, unlike major chains where gas is often subsidized or abstracted early on. It makes me wonder if the first real beneficiaries are token speculators rather than the robotics builders the protocol claims to serve, and whether that initial barrier quietly decides who actually experiments at scale before the network effects take hold. @Fabric Foundation