BitMEX co-founder Arthur Hayes, now chief executive of Flop Labs, said autonomous AI agents will need a decentralized currency that can be exchanged directly for computing resources rather than dollars, won, stablecoins, or Bitcoin. FLOP Network is meant to match GPU providers with agents paying for inference in the native FLOP token, with miners supplying compute and validators checking results, under a fair-launch model with no presale or venture backing. The project is weighing an airdrop of about 20% of supply—earlier guidance had also cited a multi-year 20% testnet allocation—and has discussed October timing, a roughly three-month testnet, staged tokenomics, and a white paper within weeks, while prior reporting still points to a larger Q4 2026 airdrop window and Q1 2027 genesis that are not locked in. Hayes argued heavy AI data-center debt and a possible AI investment unwind could force liquidity support and prove bullish for crypto, stressed money supply over any single U.S. president, and called South Korea a prime early market ahead of a Seoul appearance.