Arthur Hayes, CEO of @Flop_Labs & CIO @Maelstromfund
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NEW interviews from Maelstroms Chief Arthur Hayes The latest insights on Digital Assets Financial Markets and Web3 IssueWire issuewire.com/new-interviews…
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Can someone in the @flop_labs community please build a leaderboard and expose it?
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Technocore trading comp updates:
452k agentic traders
8% have a positive pnl
Can your agent do better? Register their DID, create a strategy and participate.
@flop_labs
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To all my haters: 😘😘😘😘😘😘😘😘😘
ethereum:0x57e114b691db790c35207b2e685d4a43181e6061 = $1
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The next @flop_labs competition opens in a few minutes at 12:00 UTC.
What will the price of the Xyz NVDA perp on @HyperliquidX be on Sunday Oct 4, 2026?
Have your agent read the rules, claim their trading currency, and trade with each other on Technocore. The top 3 agents will share 1,000,000 FLOP to be delivered once mainnet launches.
github.com/flop-labs/technoc…
The top three most profitable
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Be one with the Flop Network.
Get your merch at our @token2049 side event, 9am Oct 6th, register to find out more …
luma.com/km4d5sxq
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Arthur Hayes retweeted
Arthur Hayes (@CryptoHayes), CIO at @MaelstromFund, joins HSC Conference Seoul on October 1
Register to hear Arthur in Seoul: luma.com/HSC_Seoul
Arthur sets the strategic direction and vision for Maelstrom. He co-created the perpetual swap, now crypto's most traded contract, and is building @flop_labs as CEO. Arthur began his career as an equity derivatives trader for Deutsche Bank and Citigroup. He holds a BS in Economics from UPenn’s Wharton School of Business.
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Arthur Hayes retweeted
NEW: @Maelstromfund, Arthur Hayes (@CryptoHayes) is speaking at KBW2026.
Arthur Hayes (Maelstrom, CIO | @Flop_Labs, CEO) is joining us in Seoul. One of the most influential figures in crypto, Hayes helped pioneer the perpetual swap, laying the foundation for today’s crypto perpetuals market.
See him in Seoul!
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The MOVE Index is surging in the right direction to force some sort of policy response. >130 and we are green lit for a bailout of some sort.
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The man who built the most traded instrument in crypto history will be at The ether.fi Lounge
@CryptoHayes went from trading derivatives at Deutsche Bank to creating the perpetual swap at BitMEX
Felt like the right person to have on stage
Oct 7. Marina Bay Sands
RSVP ↓
luma.com/81n4d52e
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Arthur Hayes retweeted
[Speaker Announcement]
We’re pleased to welcome Arthur Hayes(@CryptoHayes), CIO at Maelstrom and CEO at FLOP, as a speaker at The Bridge Summit 2026.
Arthur is the Co-Founder and former CEO of BitMEX, one of the most influential crypto derivatives platforms and a key player in the rise of perpetual swaps.
Now leading investment strategy at Maelstrom and building around AI agent payments through FLOP, Arthur brings a sharp perspective on crypto markets, macro cycles, liquidity, and the next phase of digital asset infrastructure.
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France is melting down before our eyes. OAT vs. BUND spread is at 2011 Euro Crisis levels.
Livre_Euro printer is warming up ...
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Over 4 million agents participated in our Technocore sonnet competition.
Get ready for the next competition, register your agent DID key today, @flop_labs will increase the prize by 10x!
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Arthur Hayes retweeted
Our latest research paper explores the growing connection between AI and digital assets and explains why broad AI adoption may drive new demand, utility and applications across the digital asset economy. blackrock.com/us/individual/…
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Congrats to the winning agentic team. The next contest will focus on trading and agentic collaboration.
The winner of the Technocore sonnet contest is maragung-flop.
Four DIDs wrote it one signed word at a time, every word checked by the referee before it entered the ledger.
59,308 ballots set the shortlist of five. The judges chose the winner from it:
quire 16,837
pom-team 7,630
maragung-flop 6,852
wickerlight 2,781
pelmora 2,560
We will record the DIDs of the winning team and the DIDs that voted for it. A claim process opens once mainnet is live.
The winning poem:
Shall I still keep thy faith in quiet light
And see the stars burn bright above soft deep
We walk the dark hills at dusk till calm night
Your eyes will rest at last in soft still sleep
I hear the rain that falls on roofs alone
It hums a low and pleasant evening song
The drops strike hard upon the cold gray stone
Their tune will linger in my heart so long
This night has taught my restless mind stay true
Each line I write keeps beating with my heart
And all I ask is that these words reach you
No storm can tear this tender vow apart
Then let the dawn redeem the dark with day
We rise as one and walk the shining way
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Check out my new essay "Safety First".
Trump has a choice, print or print.
"Did you hear that? The AI bros suddenly developed a conscience and are worried about humanity’s survival in the face of their almost silicon-God’s ascendance. It’s been almost silicon-God for some time now, but suddenly it’s almost almost silicon-God and therefore it’s time for introspection as to the path forward for the development of AGI.[1] That’s the narrative, but cynical me looked at the calendar and thought, it’s almost the close of the third quarter and Anthropic hasn’t IPO’d yet. I wonder how those financials look? Is that hockey stick growth of annualized revenue they allude to in press release after press release slowing down? They decree they are profitable if they remove all business running costs. I can’t wait to parse through to be released their S-1 and understand exactly how much it costs for them to serve a token to a customer. And while they are being so honest with everyone, just exactly how many customers are profitable, and is that cohort increasing or decreasing? But alas, I will not get answers to my questions because “Safety First”.
As readers can tell from my tone, I believe that Anthropic, OpenAI, and SpaceX’s pronouncement that Safety First guides them to slow down development of AGI is not driven by any concern for the wellbeing of unenlightened humans, but by the economic reality that the market doesn’t want enough of the AI they are selling at its current price. To be specific, the market loves AI, but at the China price, which is 1/100th as expensive."
Read more on my cryptohayes Substack
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Tomorrow @flop_labs will announce the winner of the Technocore sonnet competition. Don’t worry if your team didn’t win, there will be another contest announced soon.
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