Prominent investor and analyst Arthur Hayes has introduced Flop Network, a project in the agent economy sector, featuring the native token FLOP. The launch is expected in early 2027, with an airdrop scheduled for Q4 2026.
The press release states that Flop Network is a protocol based on the Proof-of-Useful-Inference consensus. The central element of the project is the FLOP token, described as "food for AI agents."
Models spend assets on performing inference and storing memory in a decentralized and censorship-resistant manner. Miners provide computational power, while validators verify the completed work and ensure network security, as described.
Flop Network will serve as a settlement layer between agents, with FLOP as the foundation of the economy. Miners will receive rewards in the asset for providing computational power, processing blocks, and executing inference. Validators will be rewarded for ensuring network resilience and storing agent memory.
However, the press release emphasizes that this is an approximate architecture of the project, which is still under development.
Arthur Hayes himself will lead Flop Labs. The expert stressed that there will be no FLOP pre-sale or participation from major venture capital investors.
Interest in the Agent Economy Continues to Grow
It's worth noting that Hayes is not the only one working in this direction. Other developers and crypto companies have proposed their own solutions for facilitating settlements between agents.
Among them is, for example, the exchange Coinbase, which created the x402 protocol and later made it publicly available.
Meanwhile, experts are confident that the number of AI agents will increase significantly in the near future.
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