diff --git a/crates/e2e/tests/e2e/main.rs b/crates/e2e/tests/e2e/main.rs
index 02a8bd9d7f..1f2611a746 100644
--- a/crates/e2e/tests/e2e/main.rs
+++ b/crates/e2e/tests/e2e/main.rs
@@ -19,6 +19,7 @@ mod jit_orders;
 mod limit_orders;
 mod liquidity;
 mod liquidity_source_notification;
+mod native_price;
 mod order_cancellation;
 mod partial_fill;
 mod partially_fillable_balance;
diff --git a/crates/e2e/tests/e2e/native_price.rs b/crates/e2e/tests/e2e/native_price.rs
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..515e35cb19
--- /dev/null
+++ b/crates/e2e/tests/e2e/native_price.rs
@@ -0,0 +1,221 @@
+use {
+    alloy::primitives::Address,
+    autopilot::shutdown_controller::{ShutdownController, ShutdownSignal},
+    e2e::setup::{
+        OnchainComponents,
+        Services,
+        TIMEOUT,
+        TestAccount,
+        colocation,
+        run_test,
+        wait_for_condition,
+    },
+    number::units::EthUnit,
+    shared::ethrpc::Web3,
+    std::{sync::Arc, time::Duration},
+    tokio::{sync::Mutex, task::JoinHandle},
+};
+
+/// Test environment with shutdown control over autopilot.
+struct TestEnv<'a> {
+    services: Services<'a>,
+    shutdown_signal: Option<ShutdownSignal>,
+    autopilot_handle: JoinHandle<()>,
+}
+
+impl<'a> TestEnv<'a> {
+    /// Sets up driver, autopilot (with shutdown control), and orderbook API.
+    ///
+    /// NOTE: This setup explicitly specifies configuration values required for
+    /// its assertions, even when they match the current defaults in the
+    /// Services infrastructure. This intentional redundancy decouples the
+    /// test's correctness from the default configuration. If defaults
+    /// change in the future, this test will (hopefully) continue to validate
+    /// the same behavior without silent breakage.
+    async fn setup(onchain: &'a OnchainComponents, solver: TestAccount) -> Self {
+        // Start the driver service
+        let test_solver = colocation::start_baseline_solver(
+            "test_solver".into(),
+            solver.clone(),
+            *onchain.contracts().weth.address(),
+            vec![],
+            1,
+            true,
+        )
+        .await;
+        colocation::start_driver(
+            onchain.contracts(),
+            vec![test_solver],
+            colocation::LiquidityProvider::UniswapV2,
+            false,
+        );
+
+        let services = Services::new(onchain).await;
+
+        let (shutdown_signal, shutdown_controller) = ShutdownController::new_manual_shutdown();
+
+        // Repeating the standard configuration matching `start_protocol()` in
+        // services.rs for a minimal working setup.
+        //
+        // TODO: Maybe we should make this configurable from the outside?
+        let autopilot_handle = services
+            .start_autopilot_with_shutdown_controller(
+                None,
+                vec![
+                    // Register the test solver
+                    format!(
+                        "--drivers=test_solver|http://localhost:11088/test_solver|{}|requested-timeout-on-problems",
+                        const_hex::encode(solver.address())
+                    ),
+                    // Configure driver-based price estimation (points to the same solver endpoint for quotes)
+                    "--price-estimation-drivers=test_quoter|http://localhost:11088/test_solver".to_string(),
+                    // Configure where to get gas price estimates
+                    "--gas-estimators=http://localhost:11088/gasprice".to_string(),
+                ],
+                shutdown_controller,
+            )
+            .await;
+
+        // Start the orderbook API service
+        services
+            .start_api(vec![
+                "--price-estimation-drivers=test_quoter|http://localhost:11088/test_solver"
+                    .to_string(),
+                "--gas-estimators=http://localhost:11088/gasprice".to_string(),
+                "--native-price-cache-max-age=2s".to_string(),
+                "--native-price-estimators=Forwarder|http://localhost:12088".to_string(),
+            ])
+            .await;
+
+        Self {
+            services,
+            shutdown_signal: Some(shutdown_signal),
+            autopilot_handle,
+        }
+    }
+
+    /// Gracefully shuts down autopilot and waits for it to complete.
+    /// Returns the services so they can continue to be used after shutdown.
+    async fn shutdown_autopilot(mut self, onchain: &OnchainComponents) -> Services<'a> {
+        let signal = self
+            .shutdown_signal
+            .take()
+            .expect("shutdown already called");
+        signal.shutdown();
+        // Autopilot checks shutdown signal during its run loop, triggered by new blocks
+        onchain.mint_block().await;
+        tokio::time::timeout(Duration::from_secs(15), self.autopilot_handle)
+            .await
+            .expect("autopilot should shut down within timeout")
+            .expect("autopilot task should complete without panic");
+        self.services
+    }
+}
+
+/// Waits for a native price to become available and returns it.
+async fn wait_for_price(services: &Services<'_>, token: &Address) -> f64 {
+    let price = Arc::new(Mutex::new(-1.0));
+    wait_for_condition(TIMEOUT, || {
+        let price = price.clone();
+        async move {
+            if let Ok(p) = services.get_native_price(token).await {
+                *price.lock().await = p.price;
+                true
+            } else {
+                false
+            }
+        }
+    })
+    .await
+    .expect("Expected successful price");
+    *price.lock().await
+}
+
+#[tokio::test]
+#[ignore]
+async fn local_node_native_price_forwarding() {
+    run_test(native_price_forwarding).await;
+}
+
+/// Test that native price forwarding from orderbook to autopilot works
+/// correctly.
+///
+/// Architecture being tested:
+///
+/// User Request
+/// -> Orderbook (port 8080, /api/v1/token/{token}/native_price)
+/// -> Forwarder (configured in orderbook via `--native-price-estimators`)
+/// -> Autopilot (port 12088, /native_price/:token)
+/// -> Driver (port 11088, /test_solver)
+/// -> Returns price
+///
+/// Two-hop forwarding chain:
+/// - Hop 1: Orderbook → Autopilot (by `Forwarder|http://localhost:12088`)
+/// - Hop 2: Autopilot → Driver (by ``Driver|test_quoter|http://localhost:11088/test_solver``)
+async fn native_price_forwarding(web3: Web3) {
+    tracing::info!("Setting up chain state.");
+    let mut onchain = OnchainComponents::deploy(web3).await;
+    let [solver] = onchain.make_solvers(10u64.eth()).await;
+
+    // Deploy token WITH UniV2 pool.
+    // This creates liquidity so price can ben estimated.
+    let [token] = onchain
+        .deploy_tokens_with_weth_uni_v2_pools(500u64.eth(), 1_000u64.eth())
+        .await;
+
+    tracing::info!("Starting services.");
+    let env = TestEnv::setup(&onchain, solver).await;
+
+    // Test 1: Token with liquidity returns a valid price via forwarding chain
+    tracing::info!("Testing native price for token with liquidity.");
+    let price = wait_for_price(&env.services, token.address()).await;
+    assert!(price > 0.0, "Price should be positive, got {}", price);
+    tracing::info!(price, "Got native price for token");
+
+    // Test 2: WETH (native token) returns price of ~1.0
+    tracing::info!("Testing native price for WETH.");
+    let weth_price = wait_for_price(&env.services, onchain.contracts().weth.address()).await;
+    assert!(
+        (weth_price - 1.0).abs() < 1e-6,
+        "WETH price should be ~1.0, got {}",
+        weth_price
+    );
+    tracing::info!(weth_price, "Got native price for WETH");
+
+    // Test 3: Stop autopilot and verify price estimation fails.
+    // By stopping autopilot and showing that native price requests fail, we prove
+    // the following:
+    // - Orderbook depends on autopilot for native prices
+    // - The Forwarder configuration is actually being used
+    // - There's no fallback mechanism that would mask configuration issues:
+    //   - If someone accidentally added a fallback estimator, this test would catch
+    //     it (because the request would succeed)
+
+    tracing::info!("Stopping autopilot to verify forwarding dependency.");
+    let services = env.shutdown_autopilot(&onchain).await;
+
+    // Wait for native price cache to expire (explicitly configured as 2s in this
+    // test setup)
+    tracing::info!("Waiting for native price cache to expire.");
+    tokio::time::sleep(Duration::from_secs(3)).await;
+
+    tracing::info!("Verifying native price fails without autopilot.");
+    let result = services.get_native_price(token.address()).await;
+    let (status, body) =
+        result.expect_err("Expected price request to fail after autopilot shutdown");
+
+    // EstimatorInternal errors (connection refused) are mapped to 404 "NoLiquidity"
+    // in the orderbook API (see crates/orderbook/src/api.rs:381-383)
+    assert!(
+        status == reqwest::StatusCode::NOT_FOUND,
+        "Expected 404 status after autopilot shutdown, got {}",
+        status
+    );
+    assert!(
+        body.contains("NoLiquidity"),
+        "Expected NoLiquidity error after autopilot shutdown, got: {}",
+        body
+    );
+
+    tracing::info!("Confirmed: orderbook forwards native price requests to autopilot");
+}