Arthur Hayes Uses Biblical Framing to Pitch FLOP: Here’s More Details

Arthur Hayes published a follow-up essay on his FLOP token launch. He frames the project as a biblical creation story instead of a standard whitepaper. The essay adds new technical details about FLOP’s design. However, it leaves several gaps from prior reporting unresolved.

The Genesis Framing In the essay titled “The Book of Genesis,” sent to his Substack subscribers, Hayes casts God as a jealous figure. Humanity’s creation of artificial intelligence (AI) pushes him aside.

Hayes writes himself in as the curious human who solves AI’s economic problem. "The Book of Genesis" traces the origin myth of @flop_labs "And on the 2^8th day, God created Alan Turing, who one day later created the computer.

The computer’s usefulness advanced as other humans made it faster and smarter.