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August 13, 2025

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Announcing the FLOPs Founders Fund

FLOPs is not a competitor. We're the Foundry of DeAI: an early-mining style accumulator + amplifier for decentralized training. We're launching a standing offer of 1% of FLOPS total token supply to each partner protocol's founder(s) we work with.

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Analysis

10 min

The Decentralized AI Economy and the Collapse of Centralized Trust

Markets are nothing more than stories formalised into contracts. When the storyteller breaks their promise, trust evaporates and the paper becomes worthless. In AI research, gatekeepers now control state‑of‑the‑art models behind closed doors.

August 11, 2025

Research

8 min

The Next Step: Decentralized AI and the Rise of a Compute Commons

The last decade of machine learning has been defined by scale. Yet the infrastructure supporting these systems is brittle: the ability to train and deploy advanced AI is concentrated in a handful of data‑centre owners and geopolitically controlled supply chains.

August 9, 2025

Protocol

12 min

FLOPs: The Economics of Open Intelligence

Markets don't run on code or slogans. They run on trust—trust that the thing you're buying means what it claims, that rules won't change mid‑game, that the people steering the ship are aligned with the people fueling it.