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Arthur Hayes Reminder: FLOP has not been released yet, and there are no presales or meme coins

BitMEX co-founder Arthur Hayes wrote a reminder that Flop Labs has not yet issued FLOP tokens, and there are no pre-sales or meme coins. Hayes stated that FLOP is not officially launched yet, and reminded the community not to mistake related tokens appearing on the market for official assets. He said Flop Labs is expected to launch an airdrop in the next few months and plans to launch the mainnet next year. According to previous public information, the project had previously planned a large-scale airdrop in the fourth quarter of 2026, and the target time for the main network Genesis block is the first quarter of 2027. Hayes previously announced that he will be leading Flop Labs, a project aimed at building economic infrastructure for AI agents, and FLOP will be designed as a native asset for AI agents to pay for resources such as computing power and storage.

7h ago

Fortune Protocol announced the completion of multiple rounds of financing, with a cumulative financing amount exceeding US$4 million

Comparing news, AI+ forecasting market project Protocol officially disclosed the latest financing information. The project has previously completed multiple rounds of financing, including the Seed round and Pre-A round, with a cumulative financing amount exceeding US$4 million. According to reports, participating institutions include K24 Ventures, CGV FoF, MH Ventures, Mapleblock Capital, etc. Protocol said that this round of funding will mainly be used to promote the technological upgrading of AI agents, the integration and expansion of predicting market liquidity, and ecosystem construction. As TGE approaches, Protocol is committed to building an intelligent infrastructure for the next-generation forecasting market and driving the industry towards a more intelligent, efficient, and open direction.

1d ago#financing

AllScale launches CLI tool, AI agents can complete stablecoin payments with one click

According to the official X account of the self-hosted stablecoin digital bank AllScale, the platform launched the AllScale CLI command line tool, which can complete stablecoin receipt, payment, and account checks on the terminal once installed. On the payee side, a detailed invoice can be sent to any valid email address with a single command. USDT or USDC is supported, and the payee does not need to register or establish a cooperative relationship in advance. On the payment side, users only need to approve the spending limit once, including the single transaction limit, total budget, and expiration date. The script can then run unattended. Each payment will create and fund a Claim Link, and the payee does not need to provide a wallet address; the process is exponential, and tasks that fail midway will not be refunded. Each command prints JSON to the standard output and returns 13 documented exit codes. The script or AI agent can automatically branch the results based on this without a screenshot check page. AllScale says that the CLI can be used in any environment where a shell can run, and is now live on npm, in a package called @allscale /cli.

1d ago

From 4 models to more than 500, OpenRouter was acquired after growing 30,000 times in three years

Author: Menlo Ventures Compiled by: Jia Huan, ChainCatcher Original title: Early Investors Behind OpenRouter Revisited Investments Today, OpenRouter announced that it has reached an acquisition agreement with Stripe. OpenRouter was launched in 2023, just over three years ago. OpenRouter was initially launched as a “unified interface for LLM” and only supported 4 models at the time: GPT-3.5, GPT-4, GPT NeoXt and Cohere xlarge by Together. When the company was founded, it was based on two core judgments: first, AI will eventually be used on a large scale and penetrate various fields; second, there will be many different models on the market, each with trade-offs, and users will choose different models according to different needs. As it turned out, both judgments far exceeded expectations at the time. Since its launch, the number of tokens processed by the OpenRouter platform has increased by about 30,000 times. Currently, it has exceeded 4,500 trillion tokens on an annualized basis, and the scale of expenditure on the platform has reached a very impressive level. Meanwhile, the number of models supported by OpenRouter has grown from the original 4 to over 500. Figure: OpenRouter Token usage growth from inception to acquisition Menlo Ventures is fortunate to be part of this journey. In March 2025, we participated in OpenRouter's seed funding round through the Anthology Fund set up in partnership with Anthropic. OpenRouter founder and CEO Alex Atallah previously founded OpenSea, which was once valued at $13.3 billion. His co-founders include tech guru Louis Vichy, whom he met on Discord, and highly executive COO Chris Clark. In May 2025, we led OpenRouter's Series A funding round, with Matt joining the company's board of directors, and Deedy as a board observer. Earlier this year, after seeing OpenRouter's rapid growth in customer numbers and revenue, and the company built a product route with stronger “model intelligence” capabilities around model selection and evaluation, we continued to step up Series B financing. In the tech industry, it often takes years for an idea to change from the judgment of a few people to industry consensus. And just a few weeks ago, this happened: from Ramp to Cursor, more than 10 companies launched their own model routing products almost simultaneously. In just a few years, OpenRouter has become one of the most important companies in the AI era. Picture: Group photo when deciding to lead OpenRouter Round A At first glance, Stripe doesn't seem like the most natural buyer of OpenRouter, but the two companies are actually strikingly similar. Both use an API that can be directly accessed to simplify the otherwise complicated transaction process and charge a certain percentage of the fee. It's just that OpenRouter deals with AI models. As Stripe has always said, the two companies combined and are still doing the same thing: increasing “internet GDP.” In fact, over a year ago, OpenRouter called itself the “Stripe of LLM.” OpenRouter's core value OpenRouter was one of the first companies Deedy came into contact with after joining Menlo in 2024. This company is almost right at the heart of our AI infrastructure investment logic. Menlo presented two judgments necessary to invest in OpenRouter in the 2024 Enterprise AI Report: AI spending will increase dramatically, and developers will not only use one model, but multiple models at the same time. Figure: Menlo's initial contact email to OpenRouter As someone who can also write code and actually use these models, we realized long ago that there is a very clear difference in cost, latency, and performance between the different models...

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Deagentai's new official website was officially launched, and the AI Agent hosting platform and the first application Sentry were released simultaneously

Comparing news, the decentralized AI infrastructure Deagentai announced the official launch of its new official website. The AI Agent hosting platform, which was launched simultaneously with the official website, is committed to providing long-term underlying support for the construction, deployment and permanent hosting of agents. As the first exemplary application launched on the platform, Sentry has been launched simultaneously to enable 24/7 permanent strategy monitoring, covering all Hyperliquid 308 targets (including crypto assets, stocks and commodities), and relies on the underlying trusted infrastructure to transform market insights into objective, automated strategy execution without emotional interference. Deagentai said that Sentry is only the first step in implementing the platform, and AI agents with more vertical scenarios will continue to be built and hosted on this platform in the future. At the same time, with the full implementation of the AI Agent platform, Sentry, and enterprise solutions, Deagentai has officially launched a $AIA programmatic normalized repurchase and destruction mechanism based on real agreement earnings to promote token deflation and value capture through actual business growth, and continue to feed back the long-term value of $AIA.

2d ago

DingTalk launches AI office app QwenNote, hardware QwenNote A2 revealed

Comparative news, according to the “Reading Best” report, DingTalk is promoting a new AI office application QwenNote (Listen to a Thousand Questions). The application is positioned as an AI portable assistant. It integrates real-time voice transcription, summary, and translation through a combination of software and hardware, and is deeply integrated with AI Agent to embed Agent capabilities into voice input and promote a shift from simple recording to automated execution. The application supports real-time transcription and Chinese-English bilingual recognition and language switching, can generate structured meeting minutes, outlines, and to-do tasks, and has built-in AI Q&A and shortcuts based on memorized materials. QwenNote provides a voice memo function. You need to scan the code to connect to the recording device. Press and hold the button on the back of the device to record inspiration. After the recording is completed, it automatically files, generates a title and brief summary, and marks the time. The product also has an incognito protection mode. After opening, the original audio will be physically deleted, and only the transcribed text will be kept to suit confidential scenarios. The supporting hardware QwenNote A2 has been introduced in the app. It also belongs to the Thousand Question Listening hardware ecosystem. The ecosystem also includes DingTalk A1, DingTalk A1 Pro, Cleer H1, etc., and users can scan the code to complete the binding. According to the report, DingTalk hopes to use the integration of software and hardware to complete offline voice collection portals to form a closed loop of live recording, real-time bilingual transcription, AI minutes Q&A, and DingTalk organization collaboration. The listening material can be synchronized to DingTalk AI to listen to and support personal private isolation. The software side continues to embed large models in scenarios such as documents, meetings, and IM, while the hardware side expands the Thousand Question Listening product line. More official release information has not been widely publicly retrieved for related hardware.

2d ago

Coinbase introduces perpetual contracts to the Base App via Hyperliquid, supporting up to 50x leverage

In comparison, Coinbase announced the introduction of perpetual contract trading into the Base App through Hyperliquid. Eligible users can trade more than 290 perpetual contract markets, supporting up to 50x leverage, covering Bitcoin, Ethereum, and markets related to stocks and commodities. Chintan Turakhia, head of engineering at Coinbase, said that currently perpetual contracts account for about 75% of the total trading volume in the crypto market, and are also the most desired feature for high-frequency users of the Base App. The relevant transactions will be completed within the Base App, but Hyperliquid is responsible for actual execution, and users don't need to leave their existing wallets. Coinbase said that different assets have different maximum leverage ratios, and positions may be liquidated when losses exceed a certain threshold. The product is currently not open to the US, UK, Canada, and other jurisdictions that restrict leveraged crypto derivatives trading. This launch also reflects that Base App's product focus is shifting from its previous emphasis on social and creator features to transactions, payments, and AI agents. Base founder Jesse Pollak previously acknowledged that social and creator tokens did not bring the expected user growth, while predictive markets, perpetual contracts, and stablecoins have instead become stronger drivers of adoption.

2d ago

Incurable AI Raises $22 Million, IGP Participates

Comparatively, enterprise-grade AI data platform, announced the completion of a $22 million funding round with the participation of Los Angeles investment agency Integrity Growth Partners (IGP). The company was founded in 2017 and focuses on developing an AI-driven data platform that helps companies build a continuously updated “sovereign knowledge map” by connecting and integrating data from multiple systems within the enterprise, and supports the deployment of AI agents and automated systems.

3d ago#financing

Bitwise CIO: AI agents and tokenizing assets may drive a 50-100x increase in blockchain transactions

Comparing news, Bitwise Chief Investment Officer (CIO) Matt Hougan said that the market may seriously underestimate the scale of future blockchain trading activity, and as real-world asset tokenization (RWA) and artificial intelligence agents (AI Agents) reshape the financial market, on-chain transaction volume may increase 50 or even 100 times in the future. In his latest investment memorandum, Hougan pointed out that current crypto investors have three major misconceptions, one of which is underestimating the future coverage of blockchain applications. He believes that traditional assets on the chain and the participation of AI agents in transactions will significantly increase the scale of on-chain activity, and the tokenized stock market alone may lead to a 10-fold increase in trading volume. He pointed out that at present, the traditional stock market is usually only open from 9:30 to 16:00 EST on weekdays, with a weekly trading time of about 33 hours; while tokenized stocks can be traded around the clock, increasing the available trading time to 168 hours per week. If AI agents automatically execute transactions on behalf of investors in the future, the frequency of transactions may increase further. However, Hougan also acknowledged that the increase in transaction time does not mean that trading volume will increase year over year, but artificial intelligence and automated trading may be important factors driving the expansion of on-chain activity. Investors are still mainly evaluating the value of relevant platforms based on the current size of the crypto market, ignoring the potential market expansion brought about by tokenization. For example, the decentralized trading platform Uniswap may expand its scope of services from crypto assets to traditional asset markets such as stocks, bonds, and real estate in the future. (The Block) This article is sponsored by GENG, Build Your Fortune on GENG (https://geng.one)

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Arthur Hayes: Coming out of the mountains to lead Flop Labs, FLOP anticipates Q4 airdrop and launch Genesis block in Q1 2027

Comparing news, Arthur Hayes posted an article announcing that he will end his retirement status, lead Flop Labs, and launch the FLOP token. He said that FLOP will be used as food for AI agents, and the project will not pre-sell or introduce VC, and will use a 100% fair distribution model to create an agentic economy currency. Hayes said more details of the project will be announced later, and a large-scale airdrop is expected in the fourth quarter of 2026 and the launch of the Genesis block in the first quarter of 2027.

4d ago