Introducing $ROBO

The future of autonomous robots will be onchain. Unlike humans, robots cannot open bank accounts or own passports. They will need web3 wallets funded with crypto as well as onchain identities to track payments. All transaction fees will be paid in $ROBO. The Fabric network will initially be deployed on Base, but as adoption grows, Fabric will migrate and become its own L1 chain, capturing economic value from robot activity.

The protocol enables a decentralized mechanism for coordinating the genesis and activation of robot hardware through $ROBO-denominated participation units. Participants contribute tokens solely to access protocol functionality and coordinate network initialization, receiving priority access weighting for task allocation during a robot's initial operational phase. A portion of protocol revenue is used to acquire $ROBO on the open market, creating persistent buy pressure. Participation does not represent ownership of robot hardware, fractionalized interests, revenue rights, or economic claims. To participate in network coordination, users are required to stake $ROBO.

As the Fabric ecosystem and robot adoption grows, developers and businesses will want to build applications on the network to access the robot team. Fabric will require these builders to buy and stake a fixed amount of $ROBO, aligning their interests with the success of the network. These incentives will bootstrap early deployment and coordination, structured as network participation primitives such as priority access. Rewards are subsequently paid for verified work, from skill development to task completion, data contributions, compute, and validation.

The autonomous future should benefit all of humanity Therefore, $ROBO will play a key role in formulating and guiding the network, such as setting fees and operational policies. Fabric Foundation's goal is to build an open network for general-purpose robots, in which anybody can participate and contribute. To support that mission, the initial token allocation is designed to 1) fund long-term ecosystem growth, 2) keep the Foundation sufficiently resourced to manage the network responsibly, and 3) align core contributors and early backers through structured vesting, as summarized below.