NATIXIANs, April was unlike any month we've had so far. We closed one chapter and opened a much bigger one at the same time, with a landmark open-source partnership, a major shift in how the network operates day-to-day, and a clear acceleration of everything we've been building toward. Without further ado, let's jump right into what April brought.
This was the biggest announcement of the month, and arguably one of the most important in NATIX's history. We officially joined the Autoware Foundation as a Premium member, lining up alongside AMD, AWS, Arm, Red Hat, TIER IV, Capgemini, and many others. Autoware is the world's leading open-source autonomous driving stack, with over 100 member organizations and contributors that span OEMs, Tier 1s, robotics companies, and top research labs around the globe. Their technology powers everything from robot taxis and shuttles to delivery robots and warehouse vehicles, and they are now taking the next logical step: an open-source end-to-end (E2E) autonomous driving model.
That is where NATIX comes in. We will provide multi-camera driving data to help Autoware train its open-source E2E model, build and refine the world models that support it, and validate behavior across jurisdictions, weather, and traffic patterns. Open-source autonomy has matured significantly on the software side; what it has been missing is large-scale, real-world multi-camera data to compete with closed AV stacks. The VX360 network captures exactly that, across continents, road types, and conditions, and now it feeds training, simulation, and validation for the entire open-source AV community. Follow the hyperlink to read more about NATIX x Autoware Partnership.
We also shared a major update about Drive&, the app that built the foundation of the NATIX Network. After years of contribution from our community, we announced that Drive& is being sunset. April was the final Drive& earning cycle. Detections, missions, and earnings stop on May 1st, and operations for the Drive& app will be fully discontinued on July 1st, 2026.
This is not a step back, it is a step up. VX360 is now generating the majority of NATIX protocol revenue, and the multi-camera driving data it produces is exactly what the autonomous driving and robotics industries are racing to acquire. By concentrating every resource on VX360, we are doubling down on the data that matters most for Physical AI, and on the product that is already proving its value with clients and partners like Valeo, GrabMaps, Autoware, NomadicML, MaprGo, and more on the way. Drive& was a genuine success that proved DePIN works at scale; VX360 is what that success makes possible.
We also want every Drive& contributor to share in what comes next. To recognize the role you played in building this foundation, we introduced a tiered staking reward program for Drive& users who withdraw and stake their $NATIX from now until June 30th. Stakers earn bonus airdrops on top of the standard staking APY, scaling with how long they commit. We are also running a special Drive& Sunset raffle, already live in the marketplace, with a prize pool of up to 18M $NATIX that grows as more users participate. Follow the hyperlinks for the full Drive& Sunset Details, and the dedicated breakdown of the $NATIX Staking Rewards for Drive& Users.
With VX360 firmly at the center of the network, we wanted to make participation even more rewarding for the drivers powering the data layer. We increased VX360 rewards by 15%, giving everyone running the device a meaningful boost for the multi-camera data they contribute every single day. The demand for this data is only going up, and we want our reward structure to keep pace with it.
April also marked another step in the global expansion of VX360, with the device officially going live in Switzerland. Swiss Tesla drivers can now plug in, drive, and earn $NATIX while contributing to the Physical AI data network. Switzerland adds an especially diverse driving environment to the dataset, blending Alpine routes, tight European city centers, and high-quality motorways. Every new country we add brings more variety, more edge cases, and more value to the data clients we serve.
We closed out April by announcing the May City Miles campaign for VX360 users. City driving data is some of the most valuable on the network, capturing traffic flow, road conditions, and real-world mobility patterns that our data clients need more of. The campaign offers a one-time bonus multiplier for VX360 users who increase their share of city driving throughout the May cycle, with rewards scaling up to 50% more in In-App NATIX based on the percentage of urban driving achieved. Higher city share, higher bonus, applied retroactively after the May cycle closes. For the full details of the May City Miles Campaign for VX360 Users, follow the hyperlink.
April also brought the first quarterly token burn of 2026, and it was a big one. We took over 110.7M $NATIX out of circulation, by far the largest single burn we've ever issued. The total amount of $NATIX burned now stands at over 706.3M! With VX360 carrying more and more of the data revenue load and Drive& emissions winding down, the dynamics around $NATIX supply are moving in exactly the right direction. Less emission, more real revenue flowing into the protocol from Physical AI data customers, and bigger burns going forward.
To unpack the Autoware partnership directly with the community, we held a special broadcast where CEO Alireza Ghods sat down with Muhammad Zain Khawaja, Managing Director of Product at the Autoware Foundation. The conversation went deep into the shift from rule-based, hand-coded autonomy to data-driven, end-to-end AI models, and what that means for the entire AV industry. Zain explained how a single neural network is now beginning to replace the modular stacks of perception, planning, and control that defined the first generation of self-driving cars, and how world models (essentially photorealistic AI simulations of the real world) have become the training ground where these new AI drivers learn to handle the situations a physical road test could never safely cover.
They also dug into the safety question head-on. Zain laid out Autoware's approach of pairing end-to-end models with parallel, introspectable safety perception systems, why pure "scale, scale, scale" isn't enough, and why edge cases (both known and unknown) remain the central problem for any AI-based driving system. The throughline of the entire conversation was that open-source autonomy needs serious, real-world, multi-camera data at scale to keep up with closed AV stacks, and that NATIX is now positioned to provide exactly that. You can listen to the full broadcast here: https://x.com/i/broadcasts/1AxRnadZryYxl
April set the stage for what we believe will be the most exciting stretch in NATIX's history. VX360 is now fully positioned as the engine of the network, our open-source footprint just expanded into one of the most important AV ecosystems in the world, and the country list keeps growing. The demand for multi-camera real-world driving data is accelerating across autonomous driving, robotics, and the broader Physical AI space, and NATIX sits at exactly the intersection where DePIN and Physical AI meet. More announcements, more partners, and more milestones are already lined up, and the strongest part of this year is still ahead.
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