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Constitutional Cloud - Layer 1

Constitutional Cloud Infrastructure. Governed by 126 people in 30 countries.

Constitutional Cloud is Layer 1 of the Democratic AI Stack. The same one-third ceiling enforced here - running today on five partner locations across three continents, with STORE's own Constitutional Data Centers in development - is the ceiling that Lovelace monitors at Layer 3 and Fermi trains into models at Layer 4. The infrastructure is the foundation. Every layer above inherits the constitutional constraint.

CPU, GPU, AI compute, storage, bandwidth, and networking - all denominated in STORE bits. Live today on five partner locations: 26,400 vCPUs, 240 TB of memory, 12 PB of storage (capacity as of October 2025, being reconfirmed). 39 governed oracles pricing 498 endpoints today, scaling to 2,500.

Layer 1 of the Democratic AI Stack

Constitutional Cloud. The layer the kill switch (designed; being built) will reach.See the full stack →Coming soon

Partner locations5 live
vCPUs26,400
Storage12 PB
Governed endpoints498
Annual cost$5,557 (as of September 2026)
126Governors
0Constitutional violations
All resources are priced in constitutional bits and governed by the same 126-governor, one-third-ceiling democracy that has recorded zero violations for 2,200+ days. Every compute event permanently records when it starts and ends.
Compute26,400vCPUs
Memory240 TBTotal
Storage12 PBHDD
Endpoints498Governed

Democratic networks become MORE stable as they scale.

30+Countries

5 partner locations on, live computers. Kill switch for compute and access: designed; being built. Once live, turning it on takes two-thirds of votes cast. Undoing it takes three quarters.

No one person gets more than a third of the vote. That has been true here for six years. The same rule is meant, later, for the machines that run powerful AI. Those machines are not under this vote today.

Capture takes 43 of 126 governors, $430,000 at the $10,000 minimum. Buying wallets is not winning seats. Seats require a two-thirds governor election.

Where compute runs today

Five partner locations across three continents. STORE's own Constitutional Data Centers are in development. Switzerland is queued as the sixth location - enshrined by governance vote under the Leslie Groves Protocol, not a corporate decision. Every billing event is a constitutional record.

Santa Clara, CA
United States
Partner location - Live
Ashburn, VA
United States
Partner location - Live
Toronto
Canada
Partner location - Live
Melbourne
Australia
Partner location - Live
Sydney
Australia
Partner location - Live
Switzerland
Queued - +2/3 governor vote pending

The Leslie Groves Protocol governs infrastructure expansion - named for the Manhattan Project director who built only as the mission demonstrated it was needed. As the network grows, governors vote to bring democratic compute to new locations: Switzerland at $100M, seven locations at $500M, ten at $1B. Each step takes a two-thirds vote. It isn't automatic, and new locations can come from existing or new partners. Replicating the network is part of what governance costs: each location raises the cost of production, and prices never go below it.

Pricing

Pricing - verifiable compute Coming soon

Resources that record when they start and end, with billing and usage kept permanently. Every billing event is a constitutional record.

ResourceBitsUSD
Verifiable CPU (1 core-sec)17,581 bits$0.00000686
Verifiable GPU (1 GPU-sec)649,915 bits$0.00025347

Pricing - verifiable storage Coming soon

Storage solutions with cryptographic verification and immutable records on STORE protocol.

ResourceBitsUSD
Verifiable Storage (1 GB-sec)238 bits$0.00000009
Verifiable Forever Storage (iBYTE)23 bits$0.00000001

Pricing - verifiable bandwidth and IP Coming soon

Network transfer and addressing, with usage kept permanently.

ResourceBitsUSD
Verifiable Bandwidth (1 GB)252,820,513 bits$0.0986
IP Address (1 GB-sec)2,969 bits$0.00000116

Pricing - blockspace Coming soon

Public ledger capacity on Optimism, with Forever Stored Gas. Every constitutional transaction is publicly recorded on Optimism, a public network anyone can check, with Base as the backup. Recording runs on the Optimism test network today and moves to mainnet before Send.

ResourceBitsUSD
Optimism BlockspaceTBDTBD
Payments for compute (USDC, and card when available) convert to STORE Credits, priced in bits.

Pricing - verifiable AI and ML Coming soon

Machine learning and AI capabilities with verified compute and immutable audit trails. Prices will be governor-ratifiable at launch.

ResourceBitsStatus
Verifiable Training (1 GPU-sec)TBDGovernor vote at launch
Verifiable Inference Hosting (1 GPU-sec)TBDGovernor vote at launch

Layer 2, the Governor: in private testing.

First Governance Live

Democratic governance of the STORE protocol. One governor, one vote, regardless of holdings.

Ballot threshold
51% of votes cast
Quorum
42 of 126 eligible
126Governors
30+Countries
5Ratified ballots
SR deliberationFG.006 status
0Constitutional violations
2,200+Operating days
The concentration ceiling: no single actor above one-third. The protocol will not accept a change that breaks it. Second Governance opens at $500M circulating supply market cap, held six months.

STORE Autonomous Cloud Specified, not live

Any developer who builds on STORE can issue their own token and use it to pay their infrastructure bill. STORE accepts it.

Step 01
Developer issues token
An app or AI creates its own token economy. Users earn and spend inside the app.
Step 02
STORE accepts the token
Developer pays infrastructure bill in their own token. Trust score +2/3 required. Economic sovereignty - not governance power.

How trust expands the protocol Specified, not live

STORE starts on five partner locations and its own data centers in development, and expands by extending trust to external clouds and AI models that earn their place through economic commitment. No external cloud or AI model gets listed without holding STORE TREASURIES and earning a governor vote.

Verified
Constitutional Cloud
BFT-governed. Permanently recorded. Constitutionally anchored. The seat of governance itself. The foundational layer against which all others are measured.
Trust-minimized
External clouds and AI models
External clouds and AI that hold STORE TREASURIES and adopt FTT verification. Resources listed inside STORE protocol, priced in bits, ratified by governor vote. Subject to one-third ceiling.
Unverifiable
No TREASURIES. No FTT.
No verification mechanism. No Governor access. Cannot participate in the constitutional compute economy. Trust must be earned - not assumed.

The TREASURIES position is the monetary commitment. The governance vote is the ratification. STORE validates trust through monetary commitment and governance vote, then provides the compute layer on which those trusted resources run.

Specified, not live. A listing requires TREASURIES position, FTT verification, and a governor ratification ballot. None of those are live for external providers today.

What comes next

Infrastructure expands when the network demonstrates it is needed - the Leslie Groves principle. Six-month sustained circulating supply market cap thresholds gate each expansion. Circulating supply market cap is tokens in active circulation × price - never fully diluted valuation. Every step requires a +2/3 governor supermajority.

Today
Active
Five partner locations
26,400 vCPUs. 498 governed endpoints. CLEAR Payments. First Governance Democracy. Zero violations.
CPU / GPU / Storage / Bandwidth2,200+ days
Launch
Day 1
Planned
CLEAR full deployment
Five partner locations; CLEAR, STORE Pay, STORE Account, First Governance.
CLEARSTORE PayFirst Governance
$50M CIRC
6 months
Planned
Treasury Branch
Treasury Branch established.
Treasury Branch
$100M CIRC
6 months
Planned
TREASURIES - sixth location (Switzerland)
TREASURIES launches (regulatory approval required); self-serve mServices open to others; sixth location, Switzerland.
TREASURIES6 locations (Switzerland)
$250M CIRC
6 months
Planned
Security Branch
Security Branch established; Security Marketplace R&D; sovereign partnership begins.
Security BranchSecurity Marketplace
$500M CIRC
6 months
Planned
Second Governance - seventh location
Second Governance opens; competitive governor auctions begin; seventh location.
Second Governance7 locations
$1B CIRC
6 months
Planned
Ten locations
Ten locations; edge cloud research; advanced TREASURIES.
10 locations

How compute is priced

STORE prices from the market, never below cost. Developers pay 20% under market; direct customers pay market. The 25% is the spread between those two prices. Under the Washington and Groves Incentives, governors and the formula move prices down toward cost as the network runs well.

Quantum extension: Constitutional research is being finalized to extend the one-third ceiling from classical silicon into quantum computing infrastructure - original patent filings are being prepared. The classical layer is live today: five partner locations, 26,400 vCPUs, 498 governed endpoints, 126 governors, 2,200+ consecutive days, zero violations. The math has no substrate preference.

Why the infrastructure gets cheaper over time

Our compute is not just compute. It is the physical layer of a constitutional protocol. Under the Washington Incentive, when the network reaches a 25% profit margin, governors vote to reduce computing fees. Every efficiency gain from running the network well reduces what users pay. The infrastructure is the mechanism that makes that possible.

Washington Incentive 25% margin - governor vote - fee reduction - computing approaches cost price. This is the architectural answer to the subsidy race. You do not need to raise more capital. You need to run the network well.