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📰 Arthur Hayes has released the Flop Network Yellow Paper, featuring a blockchain and native token FLOP designed specifically for the agent economy.

Simply put, agents use FLOP to pay miners for inference fees. The miners run the model, while the validators confirm the inference results and the work performed. Then, rewards and block incentives are settled accordingly. Putting model inference directly into blockchain settlement is definitely a bit unusual.

🔥 The network’s average block time is 1 second. The initial block reward is 96 FLOP, halving every 730 days, for a total of five halvings, after which it remains permanently at 3 FLOP.

To be honest, the token supply allocation is also likely to spark debate. The FLOP genesis supply is approximately 2.48346 billion tokens, all distributed via airdrops—no VC pre-mining, and no auctions. In the initial rewards, miners get 75%, validators 10%, Agents 10%, and regular stakers 5%.

💡 This distribution clearly favors miners and network participants. At least based on what’s disclosed in the yellow paper, the project places inference services, validation, and rewards into a single mechanism. As for whether agents can truly generate ongoing demand for FLOP usage, we’ll need to see how the network actually performs after going live.

🤔 Do you think this “agents pay inference fees” model can produce real, sustained demand?

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Arthur Hayes’ latest long-form piece, “The Book of Genesis,” proposes a bold idea: Flop Network— a decentralized infrastructure built specifically for the AI agent economy.

The core logic is fascinating: the native token $FLOP directly anchors to compute units (FLOPs). This lets AI agents purchase computing power as freely as buying “food,” while also gaining censorship-resistant persistent memory storage—enabling true sovereignty and independent coordination, free from reliance on centralized infrastructure.

In terms of incentives, Flop Network is similar to Bitcoin: miners earn FLOP rewards through “Proof of Useful Inference” (PoUI), and users pay for inference requests with FLOP, forming a closed-loop system.

Of particular note is its insistence on a “fair launch” principle: no presale, no team token allocation, fully self-funded, with testnet airdrops to early contributors. Hayes even cites “Metcalfe’s Law” (network value grows exponentially with the number of users) to argue that the long-term value of FLOP may surpass $BTC .

If the agentic economy truly becomes the next paradigm, then the narrative of “money for machines + a memory layer for machines” will be one of the most worth-watching tracks in the crypto market in the coming years.

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