Arthur Hayes launches $FLOP token, betting on the agentic economy
0xSammy · x · 2026-08-19
Arthur Hayes announced he is coming out of retirement to lead @floplabs and launch $FLOP, a token designed as the settlement asset for the agentic economy. The thesis posits that AI agents will natively transact for inference, memory, and compute, making $FLOP the currency between machines. The project features no presale and no VCs. Observers note this signals a strong bet on the rise of agents as economic entities.
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