Everything you need to know about Native
Native is a digital city and social network, built on Farcaster. Move into one of our 21 neighborhoods by minting your Native Passport and Home, then build your Home right here in Native. My hope is that Native facilitates real community: digital and onchain neighbors all interacting together in the cozy corners we call neighborhoods.
Farcaster is a decentralized social network protocol. Think of it like email for social media - you can choose different clients to access it, but your identity and connections are portable. With the onchain content and social graph, devs can build any kind of social product on the Farcaster protocol.
A Farcaster client is an app that lets you interact with the Farcaster network. Popular clients include Warpcast and Super. Most Farcaster clients to date have been Twitter analogs but there are others like Drakula that are more akin to Reels or TikTok. Each offers different features but connects to the same social graph. Native is a type of client more akin to Geocities or Myspace than Twitter or Bluesky. If Warpcast and Super are feed-centric clients, think of Native as a profile-centric client.
Native Passports prove that you're a citizen of Native. You'll need one to buy a Home, participate in government, and earn rewards from $NATIVE transactions. To get one? First, own $NATIVE, connect your Farcaster account, and you'll be able to mint your Native Passport, which is an onchain identity akin to an ENS name, but just for the Native ecosystem. They look like this: ada.native
Native Homes are properties within Native's 21 neighborhoods. When you own a Home, it becomes your place on the internet, powered by Farcaster. Your casts are the signs in the yard, but you'll also have ways to digitally adorn your home as well to make it yours. Native citizens can own property within the city by minting them as the neighborhoods open to the public.
Of course it's the people! People make a neighborhood...but neighborhoods can make people, too. Each neighborhood has its own character, from Lovelace's historic charm to Keller Quarter's focus on faith to Turing Gardens' love for all things AI. These characteristics are embedded in each Home via onchain metadata, along with additional metadata unique to each property. Native citizens get special access to neighborhood features and governance.
Customize your space with tools and content, connect with neighbors, participate in governance, and be part of Native's growing community. Your address is your permanent home in the digital world. Of course, your Native Home is an onchain asset as well, and can be bought and sold just like any other real estate.