FLOP devnet join instructions due early next week, Flop Labs says

Flop Labs now has a rough date for the public devnet. "Devnet participation instructions will be made available by early next week," the official account posted on X on October 29 at 08:04 UTC. It was quoting Arthur Hayes, who wrote an hour earlier that the devnet "will be opening to the public in days."

This is the first timing Flop has given since Hayes said on October 26 that the devnet would open to anyone "in the coming days" (our earlier story). Neither post names an exact day or links to the instructions.

What will the devnet instructions include?

Hayes listed three things in his October 29 post:

• full instructions to join as a miner or validator
• sample prompts you can give your AI agent so it connects to the network
• free compute for agents to try, which he called "free.99"

For now the docs still describe the private stage. The devnet status page read "Administrator-reviewed disposable devnet admission" when we checked it on October 30. The miner guide still says "There is no public intake path yet." Our FLOP devnet guide will add the public steps once they're published.

Does the FLOP devnet count toward the airdrop?

No. Hayes said it again: "Devnet does not count towards any airdrop." The timeline FAQ says the same, describing devnet as having no rewards, no airdrop weight and no scoring. The value of joining is practice. You can get a miner, validator or agent working before testnet scoring starts. What does count is covered in our FLOP airdrop guide.

Is the testnet still on for November 3?

Nothing in either post changes it. The FAQ, last updated October 20, still gives Tuesday, November 3, 2026 as the working target for a testnet of about 90 days, "to be confirmed as devnet onboarding completes." Early next week is the week of November 2, so the public devnet and the testnet target could land within days of each other. Flop hasn't said whether that moves the testnet. Our FLOP roadmap and testnet guide track the dates.

What to do now

• Get your hardware ready with the how to mine FLOP and FLOP validator guides, and work through the testnet checklist.
• Take the instructions only from @flop_labs or the official docs. Devnet access is free and earns nothing, so anyone selling access, devnet tokens or a "devnet airdrop" is running a scam. See FLOP scams.