[Arthur Hayes' Flop Labs Plans to Build a Compute Power Trading Market, Enabling AI Agents to Directly Purchase GPU Compute Power] BlockBeats News, September 2: Flop Labs, led by CEO Arthur Hayes, is developing a compute power trading market aimed at AI agents, positioning the FLOP token as the native payment asset for AI agents to access resources such as compute power and memory. Flop Labs noted that NVIDIA's quarterly data center revenue has reached $89 billion, a year-on-year increase of 117%. However, users currently often need to contact sales representatives to determine the price of one hour of GPU compute power. The project aims to make compute power publicly priced and traded like commodities such as oil and grain, allowing AI agents to directly purchase compute power from miners. Validators will re-execute certain computational tasks to verify the work provided by miners. The core mechanism revolves around "Proof of Useful Inference": miners provide GPU compute power and process AI inference requests, validators verify the computational results, and AI agents use FLOP to purchase compute power and related resources. Currently, Flop Labs is still in its early stages. The project previously announced plans for a large-scale FLOP airdrop in Q4 2026 and intends to launch its genesis block in Q1 2027. [Original Link]