FLOP tokenomics in brief
The block reward
The block reward is 96 FLOP. It halves every 730 days for five halvings — 96 → 48 → 24 → 12 → 6 → 3 — then stays constant at 3 FLOP in perpetuity.
Blocks arrive on a one-second average cadence, with a roadmap toward sub-millisecond settlement.
How each block reward splits
| Share | Recipient | Basis |
|---|---|---|
| 75% | Miners | Distributed by verified G_n contribution |
| 10% | Active validator set | Shared across the set |
| 10% | Agents and brokers | Minted to a protocol account; distribution not yet live |
| 5% | Community stakers | Minted to a protocol account; distribution not yet live |
The agent and staker shares were carved out of the miner share, not added on top: the miner leg fell from 90% to 75% to fund them, and the validator leg did not move.
In era 0 that makes the miner pool 72 FLOP per rewarded block. The miner pool halves every 63,072,000 blocks and reaches a 2.25 FLOP floor after five halvings.
The developer subsidy
On top of the block reward, 16 FLOP per block is minted as a developer subsidy — 8 each to FLOP Labs and the FLOP Foundation. It halves on the same 730-day boundaries as the block reward (16 → 8 → 4 → 2 → 1) and then stops entirely from year 11, five eras in — exactly where the block reward reaches its perpetual floor. The subsidy terminates; the reward does not.
Transaction fees
Transaction fees do not burn: nothing is burned anywhere in the ratified protocol design. Live devnet transaction fees burn 10% interim (BurnFees) pending the runtime upgrade, routing the remainder to the block author. Under the ratified policy, fee routing will operate with zero burn.
Separately, 1% of session fees is earmarked to validators performing audits — a documented design commitment whose wiring follows later.
Stake and community locking
Miners and validators both stake FLOP as self-stake. There is no delegated staking of any kind into validators or miners: a FLOP holder cannot back an operator's position for a share of its rewards.
Holders who do not want to operate hardware can participate in the duration-locked community staking pool, which shares the 5% community-staker allocation across seven lock duration tiers without slashing risk. The staking pallet routes rewards directly to operator accounts without commission cuts.
Status
Draft whitepaper. Fee routing is interim, the audit-fee earmark is documented but not yet wired, and the miner capacity-stake constants are under economic reconciliation — see staking and slashing.
The agent and community-staker shares are not claimable today. Each is minted every block to a protocol-held account and accrues there; no rebate, claim, or pro-rata payout path exists for either yet, and the rules that will govern them are still being designed.