A Decentralized Cloud for Autonomous ComputeThe next big customer of cloud compute won't be a person.It'll be software. Agents that spin up what they need, pay for it, and tear it down — no signup, no card, no human in the loop. Every cloud on earth assumes a person is holding the account. That's about to break.
Flux is being rebuilt for what comes after it. Here's what's coming:
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Nodes paid by real usage, not inflation.**
Progressive Node Rewards flips the economics. Operators get paid because workloads run, not because blocks are mined. Demand becomes the product.
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One FLUX. Everywhere.Ten parallel chains consolidate into one. New audited contracts, a redesigned bridge with hard caps and timelocks, one balance instead of ten.
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A cloud that agents can actually use.Agent identity, delegated spending, hard budget caps, instant revocation. Software that hires its own infrastructure — and can't run off with your wallet.
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Nodes that prove what they're running.ArcaneOS, measured boot, a bonded attestation network. Not "trust the operator" — cryptographic proof of what's running on the machine your workload landed on.
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Private on-chain payments, rebuilt properly.Retiring a shielded pool nobody could enter since 2021, resting on a ceremony run once in 2018 — replaced by a construction needing no ceremony at all. Groundwork Q4 2026, implementation H2 2027.
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GPUs that can be split.Frontier models need interconnect nobody's fleet has. Small task-specialised models don't — and thousands of dispersed commodity machines are their right home.
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Post-quantum migration. Specified and on the roadmap.
3,050,000 Oct 2026 application spec v9 enforced
3,071,200 Oct 2026 Proof-of-Node reduction 1 (-10%)
3,450,000 Mar 2027 retiring chains go one-directional
3,600,000 Apr 2027 shielded pools retired
3,787,502 Jul 2027 the cut — one chain, revenue-funded nodes
3,880,000 Aug 2027 retiring chains shut down
And 3,787,502 isn't a date we picked.* It's the block the parallel-asset pools run dry — computed from the subsidy function in integer satoshis, cross-checked against two supply models built years apart that agree to within one block. The script is in the repo, so you can re-run it rather than believe us.
Two documents, one file.The first 16 pages are for everyone — the whole picture, about fifteen minutes.
The other 424 behind them are for whoever wants to check the maths.
https://whitepaper.app.runonflux.io/
