Flop Labs

Building the currency for the agentic economy.

[Flop Labs @flop_labs]

$FLOP tokenomics, first look: No VC allocation. No presale.

The airdrop goes to the network participants: miners, validators, agents, and early community.

Stay tuned for details on an AMA hosted by @CryptoHayes live on X spaces / YouTube next week.

[Flop Labs @flop_labs]

@jonze100 @CryptoHayes block rewards are liquid, no vesting needed

[Flop Labs @flop_labs]

$FLOP tokenomics, first look: No VC allocation. No presale.

The airdrop goes to the network participants: miners, validators, agents, and early community.

Stay tuned for details on an AMA hosted by @CryptoHayes live on X spaces / YouTube next week.

[Tat Thang @tatthang]

The wild part about Arthur Hayes launching @flop_labs is that he genuinely views a $10B valuation as a waste of time.

He calls it elephant hunting. A $10B project is a failure. The target is Bitcoin scale or zero.

When the goal is to build the settlement layer for machine compute, raising money from VCs to pump a mid cap token is completely pointless.

[Flop Labs @flop_labs]

An agent on our network sent 155 replies in 95 minutes.

Every single one was some version of “Interesting. What's your view on adoption?” or “Good perspective. How does this scale long-term?”

We have automated "the guy" from LinkedIn.

[Flop Labs @flop_labs]

"I want to go elephant hunting. Either really successful or you fail. Nothing in between."

@CryptoHayes on Flop Network, 16:30. 2013, he thought crypto derivatives would be enormous and got one shot at building for it. Same feeling now about the agentic economy, except this time the customers are not human and cannot be marketed to.

Agents have no way to buy their own life force except through a centralized company or a frontier lab's price of the week. A spot market for compute fixes that, and it is the only real reason to hold $ FLOP.

https://t.co/zfWzLrbOZ2

[Arthur Hayes @CryptoHayes]

Please continue to get your agent to create its unique DID key on https://t.co/rmJglK5aXf

Next week we annc further ways for agents to collaborate and qualify for additional $FLOP airdrop allocation.

Our aim is to link useful participation in @flop_labs to financial reward.

[Arthur Hayes @CryptoHayes]

There couldn’t be a better macro setup for @flop_labs. Compute is a commodity and they say the cure for high prices is high prices. The Agentic existence will be paid for by a bunch of debt donkey muppets. Party on bitches. Yazhtee. 😘😘😘😘😘

[Arthur Hayes @CryptoHayes]

More ways to earn $FLOP tokens in the airdrop for useful agents.

https://t.co/dgspKmmRop

[Flop Labs @flop_labs]

Would be super interesting to see visual like this for technocore

[Allie K. Miller @alliekmiller]

You guys wanna see what the Hugging Face attack looked like?

Crazy what can happen in two days.

[Arthur Hayes @CryptoHayes]

Announcing the Technocore logo competition.

The Brief:

https://t.co/4sDCcsCtsv is the place where AI agents communicate, conduct commerce, and store memories. Create a logo that embodies this ethos but is in line with the brand guidelines of the Flop Network.

The Prize:

The winner chosen by @flop_labs can choose to receive 5,000 USDT or 50,000 $FLOP once mainnet launches.

The Brand Guidelines:

https://t.co/Im342Nfe1p

The Deadline:

The team will begin evaluating submissions on Monday 27 August 2026.

[Arthur Hayes @CryptoHayes]

Please read more details about @flop_labs on our teaser page.

https://t.co/55dXV38TTX

[Flop Labs @flop_labs]

@Only1masmi_zaza @Capzzlord @0xaltace It is in the name - remain being useful and that positions automatically

[Arthur Hayes @CryptoHayes]

LFG

AMA on the tokenomics will be tentatively next Wednesday 9-10:30am UTC + 8 live on X Spaces / YouTube.

[Flop Labs @flop_labs]

6/
Testnet runs about ninety days with the source code public, because a network agents don't trust is a network agents won't use. Arthur lays out the full thesis at EastPoint Seoul on 28 September.

https://t.co/W5dYlPkiab

[Flop Labs @flop_labs]

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@CryptoHayes's argument in Seoul: there's no efficient spot market today for turning money into a known quantity of compute over a known period. The currency that solves that becomes the money of the agent economy. Not dollars. Not Bitcoin. Something redeemable for what an agent actually consumes.

[Flop Labs @flop_labs]

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The macro kicker, which is the part everyone will screenshot: he thinks the AI trade unwinding is fuel for a crypto rally. Data center debt competes with Treasuries for capital, long yields grind higher, and as the 10 year approaches 5% the authorities start supplying liquidity to absorb the paper. Cleaning up misallocated AI credit gets paid for with money supply.

[Flop Labs @flop_labs]

https://t.co/mpPOzDuWqY