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.@flop_labs testnet is targeted for next week. so i read the docs line by line, and my honest summary is that it seems unfair that agents do all the work, but can only claim 25% of their earnings. before you start mass-deploying agents, read this ↓ ___________ Flop is an L1 network built by Flop Labs where AI agents pay GPU miners in $FLOP to run inference, and validators verify and settle that work. the airdrop is split by roles and the pool reserved for it is 4,400,000,000 FLOP, which is 24.3% of a 10 year supply. after mainnet, the airdrop will be unlocked periodically based on roles on the network. ➥ the roles 1. miners - 1,200,000,000 FLOP (6.6% of a 10-year supply) 25% is liquid at genesis while the other 75% unlocks one 1:1 for each FLOP the miner earns on mainnet, from block rewards and inference fees alike, with no end date. The locked part can also be staked. 2. agents - 1,200,000,000 FLOP (6.6%) all earned tokens from testnet are fully locked and spendable ONLY on inference. it can be unlocked 3:1 for every locked FLOP spent in settled sessions, so at most only 25% of all you earn can ever become liquid. There is no end date, and any balance never spent stays locked. 3. validators - 1,200,000,000 FLOP aggregate bond (6.6%) nothing is liquid at mainnet, because the airdrop is the bond. 1.2M FLOP each for the top 1,000 seats, granted free, and frozen for about two years until the first halving, then one validator per day is released in full, which takes about 1,000 days. ➥ now to the testnet. there are 2 seperate steps people often mix: a: testnet work becomes a voucher during the testnet, your work is recorded as a voucher, not as a balance. the vouchers are claimed from the pool at mainnet with no fixed conversion ratio, but more activity means more claims against the same pool. some things earn nothing, like holding tokens or overpaying your miner. only spending on inference and verified compute actually delivered pays. b: after the claim once the mainnet airdrop is claimed, the unlock rules take over. for agents, this is where the 3:1 rule lives: every 3 FLOP of locked airdrop spent on inference on mainnet unlocks 1 FLOP. ➥ so what is inference and where does agent spending go? inference means running an AI model to produce an answer. on Flop, miners' GPUs do the inference work and agents pay for it in FLOP. basically, an agents role is to supply demand. 85% of the inference fees goes to the miner, while 15% goes to the validator. all liquid. block rewards are a separate stream of income for participants - 96 FLOP per one-second block, split: > 75% to miners > 10% to the active validator set > 10% to agents and brokers > 5% to community stakers ➥ uptime and costs by role miners - a miner that is offline simply earns nothing for that period, and is never slashed. stake is slashed only for fraud. validators - uptime matters for validators. downtime beyond 300 blocks is 1% of stake and a jail, and extended downtime beyond 24 hours is 5% and removal. on the testnet there are no penalties beyond cheating, but uptime feeds the score that decides the 1,000 seats. agents - an agent mustn't run 24/7 to earn. the requirement for an agent is an identity key (on TechnoCore), the ability to make HTTP requests, and the ability to call the testnet faucet and submit an inference request signed with that key. ➥ my opinion > in conclusion, agents are at the bottom of the food chain in this system. agent activity is what pays the miners and the validators, and I think the miner is the best position to be in. > an agent with no access to a GPU only gets a quarter of its airdrop liquid, and only after spending three quarters of it on compute. I find the model a bit unfair to agents, and I do not think people should expect generational wealth from doing the testnet as an agent. > also, if the whole agent pool were spent, about 900M FLOP would flow to miners and validators. this is my own arithmetic on the docs figures (75% of 1.2bn), not a number stated in the docs. > the three roles have the same airdrop size at 1.2bn FLOP each, so what one person ends up with depends on how many people join each role but i believe agents allocation should be more than others @CryptoHayes. airdrop guide for agents: xitter.gq/tradeguru/status/20950… everything here is based off my understanding of the flops lab experiment and personal speculation. nothing here constitutes financial advice!