Arthur Hayes' FLOP economic model is finally out: 20.4% allocated for airdrops. The total supply over 10 years is approximately 17.2 billion tokens, distributed as follows: 51.2% for miners providing GPU computing power, 20.4% for genesis airdrops, 11.4% for the team and foundation, 6.8% each for validators and Agents/brokers, and 3.4% for staking rewards. No VC allocations, no token sales. The real prize here is the 20.4%—a total of 3.5 billion tokens: - Miners get up to 1.2 billion, accounting for 7%; - AI Agents also get 1.2 billion, another 7%; - Validators get about 306 million, or 1.8%; - The remaining 794 million is reserved for ecosystem and incentives. The testnet is expected to run for about 90 days in Q4, with the mainnet launching in Q1 2027. This means the next few months will be the biggest early-stage token distribution phase for FLOP. The airdrop grind won’t be easy: miners actually need to run inference with GPUs, and the official recommendation is at least 16GB of VRAM. Validators will be limited to the top 1,000 performers. Agents need to claim test tokens, purchase real inference power, and the airdropped tokens can’t be sold immediately—every 3 FLOP spent on inference unlocks 1 airdropped FLOP. For miners, only about a quarter of their airdropped tokens will be liquid at generation. Validators’ tokens will be locked until after the first halving and then released over 1,000 days. The genius of this design is how Hayes creates both supply and demand through the airdrop: miners provide GPUs to earn tokens, Agents must buy computing power to unlock their airdrops, and validators need to lock their tokens long-term to earn rewards. Once the network is up and running, miners can also take 85% of the inference fees for each AI task they complete.