The computing economy that no single actor can own.
STORE is designed to price every governed computing job and settle every payment. Governors set the rules: 126 today, one vote each.
The one-third ceiling has held for 2,200+ consecutive days.
01What the economy is
Every action in the STORE network has a price: storage, computing, bandwidth, and governance itself. Every price is in STORE. Changing a money rule takes two-thirds of the votes cast, with at least a third of the 126 governors, in 30+ countries, taking part.
Every outside payment is settled in STORE. Computing runs today on five data center locations, and our own data centers are in development. The computing marketplace runs on the same constitutional math as governance, because they're the same layer.
142,476 STORE at $0.039, or $44.10 per governor per year. Five data center locations.
39 governed oracles, designed to price 498 endpoints, building to 2,500+. 126 governors. 2,200+ consecutive days. Zero violations.
STORE Credits are for computing only. Today, they can't be transferred or converted. Today, Credits are used on our test networks, for computing and for services such as the identity check.
02The monetary design
Supply maximum: 1 billion STORE, designed to be enforced in the database. 781 million are allocated as of July 2026, recorded in our monetary system and delivered at launch. Our next accounting comes as we build the STORE monetary system. Tokens are never burned, and supply is governed by democracy.
Inflation
1 STORE = 100,000,000 bits. Every balance is kept as a whole number of bits, so nothing is ever rounded.
03The ballot story
In January 2021, governors voted to raise the token's price from $0.049 to $0.069, a 41% increase. It passed narrowly, 9 votes to 8.
Within the same month, they reversed it. By 17 votes to 2 (89.47%), they reset the price to $0.035, then voted 18 to 1 to sell new tokens at that price. In June 2022, they set it at $0.039, where it stands today: 20% below where it started.
The people with the most to lose voted to make it cheaper for everyone else to join.
Before launch, First Governance sets the price by ballot. STORE Research or a lead investor can propose a new price, and it changes only if governors approve it. After launch, the market sets the price.
Five ratified ballots since 2020. One in deliberation.
04The capital record
Funding history: storecloud.org/fundinghistory (preliminary; being finalized in our books with our CPA).
05Launch readiness
The protocol doesn't launch until governors say it does. Four gates: technology, funding, tax and regulatory. Two are ours to finish, and two depend on Swiss authorities. We don't publish dates or percentages. The launch plan: storecloud.org/launch.
05bWhat opens next
Later capabilities open in order, each by a governors' vote. One governance at a time.
Today: 126 governors, one vote each. An investment of $10,000 or more makes a governor.
Next (proposed): the vote widens to every STORE buyer at $2,500 or more, once they register and verify as one person.
Later (proposed): auctions come online in the People's Cloud.
06Patent citations
Two US patents granted (US 11,080,691 B2 and US 12,165,142 B2), with 36 granted claims. 160+ invention disclosures in pre-filing and pre-prosecution. Cited in 16 later patent filings, including by IBM, Mastercard, Ant Group and Mitsubishi.
IBM · Mastercard · Ant Group · Mitsubishi
These companies have cited STORE Research patents in their own patent filings. This isn't an endorsement or a partnership claim.
Sources: GreyB and Patentext patent analyses, 2026.
Research is under way to extend the one-third ceiling to quantum computers. Today's computing layer is live: five data center locations, 126 governors, 2,200+ consecutive days, zero violations. The same ceiling and the same math, on any kind of computer.
06bDemocracy as a Service Soon
STORE also sells constitutional governance as a protocol. Any organization that needs human oversight of AI can call STORE's governance tools directly: vote, ballot, and a one-third limit designed to be enforced in the database, with the off switch (designed; being built) to follow. It's designed so a few lines of code add human governance to an AI system. They bring the AI. STORE brings the democracy.
Democracy as a Service runs at Layer 2 of the Democratic AI Stack: The Governor.Private testingSee the full stack →
07The Association
08The dashboard
Token, governance and infrastructure numbers as they stand today. Post-launch protocol economics aren't live until STORE launches.
781MM1 STORE = 100,000,000 bits. Annual production cost: $5,557 (as of January 2026), $44.10 per governor per year.
Holding more than a third of the seats today takes 43 of 126 governors. Each governor is a separate verified person or organization with one vote, however much they hold.
Post-launch token economics Coming soon
- Inflation0% today (5% maximum, before ratification)
- Services200+ designed; the first are running
Also pending launch: protocol use, post-launch revenue, payouts and platform use. Coming soon
09Why computing gets cheaper over time
Every major AI company right now is doing the same thing: raise capital, buy GPUs, subsidize access, and hope scale produces margin later. The business model is to burn money until you own the market, then charge for it.
The Washington Economic Consensus (WEC) is designed to make that model unprofitable on STORE. Here's why.
Under WEC, your margin is the same percentage no matter how much you own. Concentration doesn't improve your return. There's no reason to subsidize access and extract later, because that play doesn't exist. The protocol fixes the margin.
The three layers:
| Layer | Condition | What happens |
|---|---|---|
| 1 · Sustainability | When the protocol margin holds at 25% or more | The network funds itself, and the token isn't subsidized. |
| 2 · Buffer | When fee revenue covers swings | The network survives price shocks without emergency decisions. |
| 3 · Washington Incentive | At a profit margin of 25% or more | Governors vote on lower fees, and computing prices come down. |
The path to cheaper computing isn't a financial engineering problem. It's an operations problem: run the network well, and it reaches a 25% margin.
A purchase is
not a vote.
These are separate acts. A purchase is a contract, not a coin in your wallet and not a seat. 126 people vote today, and a purchase doesn't add a 127th vote at checkout. Once governors widen the vote, a seat comes by registering and verifying as one person: one vote each, however much someone holds.