๐ฐ 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.
๐ฅ The networkโs 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 airdropsโno VC pre-mining, and no auctions. In the initial rewards, miners get 75%, validators 10%, Agents 10%, and regular stakers 5%.
๐ก This distribution clearly favors miners and network participants. At least based on whatโs 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, weโll need to see how the network actually performs after going live.
๐ค Do you think this โagents pay inference feesโ model can produce real, sustained demand?
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