POPA ReconArthur Hayes Is Back - as CEO of an AI Inference Protocol
Arthur Hayes Is Back - as CEO of an AI Inference Protocol Arthur Hayes said he's "coming out of retirement" to lead Flop Labs as CEO, updating his X profile to match, and teased a "massive airdrop" in Q4 2026 ahead of the network's genesis block in early 2027. Flop brands itself as a proof-of-useful-inference protocol where AI agents spend the native FLOP token for inference and decentralized memory - a network for agents paying for compute rather than humans paying for blockspace. Hayes co-founded BitMEX in 2014 and stepped down as CEO in October 2020; in July, BitMEX announced it would s…
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