{"id":645276,"date":"2026-08-19T08:52:42","date_gmt":"2026-08-19T08:52:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/2026\/08\/19\/arthur-hayes-takes-ceo-role-at-flop-labs-ahead-of-q4-airdrop\/"},"modified":"2026-08-19T08:52:42","modified_gmt":"2026-08-19T08:52:42","slug":"arthur-hayes-takes-ceo-role-at-flop-labs-ahead-of-q4-airdrop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/2026\/08\/19\/arthur-hayes-takes-ceo-role-at-flop-labs-ahead-of-q4-airdrop\/","title":{"rendered":"Arthur Hayes takes CEO role at Flop Labs ahead of Q4 airdrop"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Arthur<\/p>\n

Hayes revealed his new role as Flop Labs CEO and teased a \u201cmassive airdrop\u201d from the AI inference protocol in the fourth quarter of 2026.<\/p>\n

BitMEX co-founder Arthur Hayes said he would lead Flop Labs and updated his X profile to identify himself as the company\u2019s CEO. Flop Labs is developing a proposed network through which AI agents would pay for computing and other services.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m coming out of retirement to lead @flop_labs,\u201d Hayes said in a Tuesday X post<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Cointelegraph has approached Hayes for comment and asked whether this position would affect his existing role as chief investment officer of Maelstrom Fund.<\/p>\n

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Hayes revealed his new role as Flop Labs CEO and teased a \u201cmassive airdrop\u201d from the AI inference protocol in the fourth quarter of 2026. BitMEX co-founder Arthur Hayes said he would lead Flop Labs and updated his X profile to identify himself as the company\u2019s CEO. Flop Labs is developing a proposed network through […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":645277,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-645276","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-blockchain"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/645276","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=645276"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/645276\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/645277"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=645276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=645276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=645276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}