Fleek

This page covers Fleek the crypto company behind the FLK token, not the slang term or the Fleek wholesale clothing marketplace.

Fleek is a New York startup best known for IPFS web hosting. Later it tried a cloud for AI agents and an AI social app with creator tokens. None of these is live as of October 2026. Fleek shut its hosting on January 31, 2026, saying it was pivoting to AI. Its new work is on making AI cheaper to run, through a lab it calls Weyl. The fleek.sh site shows only a teaser: "We've been building something new." The FLK token still trades. It lives on Base, not Solana, and Fleek has no Solana programs.

Is Fleek still running? Fleek's status in 2026

Fleek the company still exists, but it has no public crypto product as of October 2026. Here is what we found when we checked:

• Hosting: closed on January 31, 2026, according to the IPFS project and the IPFS docs.
• Website and docs: fleek.xyz, fleek.xyz/docs and the old fleek.network whitepaper link all redirect to the fleek.sh teaser. The app.fleek.xyz dashboard refused connections.
• Code: the fleek-platform GitHub organisation last changed on December 31, 2025, in the dashboard repo.
• X: the @fleek account last posted on April 3, 2026: "please excuse the silence. we've been cooking up something cool and are excited to share more details soon."
• Mobile app: the iOS listing for the Fleek AI creation app returned a not-found page.

No shutdown of the company or the token has been announced. The safest reading is that the company is between products.

Fleek IPFS hosting: what it was and when it shut down

For most developers, Fleek meant easy IPFS hosting. You connected a GitHub repo, and Fleek built the site, pinned it to IPFS and served it through its own gateway and CDN. The IPFS project lists what was included: HTTPS, an IPFS gateway, DNSLink, IPNS, ENS (.eth domains) and GitHub Actions builds.

The service grew out of Terminal, the company's earlier Ethereum dapp tooling. It launched as the Fleek Stack in early 2020, built on IPFS, Textile and Filecoin. By September 2020 it had passed 8,000 IPFS site deployments, per the IPFS case study.

The hosting service closed on January 31, 2026. The IPFS project moved more than 15 of its own websites off Fleek ahead of the deadline. It switched to GitHub Pages for HTTP hosting and IPFS Cluster for pinning. Filebase built a one-click importer for Fleek pins. Any site that still points at a Fleek gateway or Fleek DNS settings needs to move to another host.

Fleek Network and the Agentic Cloud

Fleek Network was a plan for a staked network of servers. Node operators would supply bandwidth, storage and compute. To get work and rewards, they had to stake FLK, per exchange research from the token launch. In 2022, The Block said a mainnet was due in spring 2023. We could not confirm that it ever went live. The whitepaper link now points to the teaser.

In 2025, Fleek called itself "the Agentic Cloud Platform". Developers could run AI agents and AI influencers on it. Code ran inside secure hardware (Trusted Execution Environments), which can prove it ran as written. These services went offline with the rest of fleek.xyz.

Fleek AI social app and creator tokens

When FLK launched in October 2025, Fleek's main app was what KuCoin called "a fantasy AI social app". Users made AI images and videos. They could remix other posts and build AI characters, or "AI twins" of themselves.

Each account had its own creator token. Its price rose as fans bought in, and you could only buy it with FLK. Guides from Bitget and MEXC list four ways creators earned: tips, trading fees, remix rewards and brand deals. When someone remixed a post, the original creator was meant to get paid too. The token contracts ran on Base. Their GitHub repo was last updated in November 2025.

The app is no longer listed, and fleek.xyz redirects to the teaser. We found no announcement saying what happened to existing creator-token balances.

FLK token: tokenomics, sale and unlocks

FLK is an ERC-20 token on Base, contract 0xe0969ec84456b7e4d3dd2181fb5265edbb63f7bd, per KuCoin. Supply is fixed at 100 million. Trading opened on October 14, 2025, on KuCoin, Gate, Bitget, MEXC and others.

Before that, Fleek ran a public sale on CoinList, which closed in May 2025. It raised $5 million at 75 cents a token. Buyers got all their tokens at launch.

Bitget's breakdown gives this allocation:

About 28% of supply was in circulation at launch. The team and backer tokens were locked for a year from launch, so they start to unlock from October 2026.

FLK was designed for creator-token trading, node staking and governance. None of these work while the products are offline. The live price and market cap are shown in the token data on this page.

Weyl and Fleek's pivot to AI inference

Fleek's newer work is about making AI models cheaper to run. In November 2025 it announced the Weyl Gen AI API. It is a service, in early access, that makes AI images and video. Fleek calls it "80% less expensive", because it is tuned for new NVIDIA chips.

In January 2026, Fleek posted its 2026 outlook: "We went all in on efficient inference." It also released three free, open-source developer tools: nimi, nix2gpu and mdspan-cute. Weyl's site calls itself "a Fleek research lab". None of this work uses FLK, Base or any blockchain.

Fleek and Solana

Fleek never built on Solana. Its old hosting service worked with any chain, so Solana teams could host a dApp front end on IPFS through Fleek without touching their programs. That option ended in January 2026.

Unofficial tokens using the Fleek name have appeared on Solana launchpads. The only official FLK is the Base contract listed above.

Who Fleek is for in 2026

Fleek is not a usable platform for new users today. Only two groups have a reason to follow it:

• FLK holders. They are betting that the company's next launch will give the token a use again, and they should watch the October 2026 unlocks.
• AI and GPU engineers. They may find Weyl's open-source tools and its NVFP4 inference research useful. None of that needs FLK.

If you need IPFS hosting, a decentralized front end or an AI agent host, use one of the alternatives below.

Is Fleek safe? Risks for FLK holders and former users

The biggest risk is that FLK has no working product behind it. The products that used the token are offline. The company's current work, AI inference, has no stated link to FLK, and Fleek has not said whether the token will have a role in whatever it launches next.

• Unlock pressure: the team and backers each hold 20% of supply. Their one-year cliff ended in October 2026, so up to 40% of supply begins to unlock while there is no product to create demand.
• No public audit: we found no published third-party audit of the FLK or creator-token contracts.
• Silence: the official X account has not posted since April 2026, and the website is a teaser with no roadmap.
• Old IPFS links: sites and NFT metadata that relied on Fleek's gateway or pinning can break if nobody migrated them. In 2022, Trend Micro found Fleek's gateway was one of the gateways most often used to host phishing pages. Treat any surviving "fleek" IPFS link with caution.
• Lookalike tokens: check the Base contract address before buying anything called Fleek or FLK.

Fleek alternatives for IPFS hosting

These services took in former Fleek hosting users after the January 2026 shutdown, per the IPFS forum and the IPFS blog:

• Filebase is the closest drop-in replacement. It offers a one-click importer for Fleek pins and runs IPFS gateways on custom domains.
• 4EVERLAND published a guide for moving Fleek projects, either by redeploying from GitHub or by importing a CID.
• Pinner handles pinning, hosting, DNS and SSL as separate services, and it has a Fleek migration guide.
• Self-hosting is what the IPFS project chose: GitHub Pages for HTTP, plus Kubo and IPFS Cluster for pinning. It gives you full control over CIDs and DNSLink, but you run more of it yourself.

Fleek team, funding and history

Fleek began in 2018 as Terminal and renamed itself Fleek in 2020. Harrison Hines is co-founder and CEO, and the company is based in New York.

It raised a $5 million seed round. In late 2022 it added a $25 million Series A led by Polychain Capital, with Digital Currency Group, North Island Ventures and Coinbase Ventures. Add the CoinList sale, and Fleek's disclosed funding comes to about $35 million.

Key dates:

• 2020: Fleek Stack hosting launches.
• 2025: Fleek rebrands as the Agentic Cloud, launches its AI social app and lists FLK.
• Late 2025: Fleek turns to AI inference with Weyl.
• January 2026: the hosting service closes.
• April 2026: Fleek goes quiet, and its website becomes a teaser.