Sound money infrastructure for computing.
Not a currency. Not a stablecoin. A unit of account for storage, compute, and bandwidth on a network whose monetary policy is governed by 126 independent people across 30+ countries under hard constitutional constraints - and the monetary layer of governed AI infrastructure.
Listed price $0.039. 781 million coins on the books. None issued to the public yet.
Those governors have held the parameters for 1,800+ consecutive days with zero violations. In January 2022, at the peak of the crypto market, they voted 89.47% to lower the token price - making their own holdings worth less because the protocol required it.
Token price and market cap: storecloud.org/economy
The denomination
1 STORE equals 100,000,000 bits. Article XIX of the STORE Constitution. Every payment produces three simultaneous marks in one atomic operation - a database record, an email confirmation, and a governed-ledger anchor. Payment and proof are the same act. Changing the denomination requires 75% of governors to vote yes.
The cloud
STORE is a verifiable cloud platform - CPU, GPU, AI compute, storage, bandwidth, and networking - priced in STORE bits. Every resource type is denominated in the same STORE micro-unit. This is the foundational difference from AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud: not just decentralized infrastructure, but a unified pricing layer where all computing resources resolve to a single unit of account.
| Resource | Price in bits |
|---|---|
| Verifiable CPU | 17,581 bits / core-second |
| Verifiable GPU | 649,915 bits / GPU-second |
| Verifiable Storage | 238 bits / GB-second |
| Forever Storage (iBYTE) | 23 bits / iBYTE |
| Verifiable Bandwidth | 252,820,513 bits / GB |
Resources are priced in bits per second with per-second granularity. Resources are priced in bits with per-second granularity designed for machine-to-machine micropayments. Pricing parameters are governor-ratifiable - no single actor can reprice the infrastructure.
Autonomous token economies
Any developer who builds on STORE can issue their own token and use it to pay their infrastructure bill. STORE accepts it. That acceptance is what creates a foundational monetary premium.
When STORE accepts a developer's token as payment for compute, the token acquires intrinsic value - not from speculation but from real infrastructure. The same mechanism that gave ETH value (it pays for gas) and Bitcoin value (it pays for network security) applies here at the application layer. Every app that builds on STORE and issues its own token starts with a monetary floor: their token pays the cloud bill.
For AI systems, this goes further. An AI agent can hold and spend its own token reserves - earning from its services, paying for its infrastructure - without a human CFO. The token reserves represent computing capacity owned. That is sound money for an autonomous system: intrinsic value, no speculative dependence.
The monetary premium mechanism
For protocols (not just developers): a protocol that holds STORE TREASURIES earns the right to pay for STORE compute with its own token - including the compute it uses to run its own infrastructure. This is the Treasury Trade. The more a protocol holds in STORE TREASURIES, the more integrated its token becomes with the STORE economy. The more trade, the more trust.
STORE's role as monetary platform for developer and protocol token economies is pending regulatory approval. All token economies operate under Hamilton's Law: no single actor above one-third.
Compared with DAO models
Most token governance systems are token-weighted: the largest holders set policy. STORE separates economic stake from voting power. One governor, one vote - regardless of position size. The ceiling on any single actor is not a rule; it is enforced at the database write layer before the violation can exist.
STORE places CLEAR above smart contracts rather than relying on them. Where smart contract errors require a hard fork to correct, CLEAR errors can be corrected by governance vote. Where smart contract parameters are encoded and immutable, CLEAR parameters require a ballot. The system can adapt. The constraints cannot be unilaterally removed.
Any currency. One settlement.
You pay in whatever you hold. The network settles only in STORE bits.
STORE accepts seven payment methods: STORE tokens, USDC, ETH, BTC, credit card, debit card, and wire transfer in USD, EUR, or CHF. Every non-STORE payment converts to STORE bits at settlement. The protocol buys STORE on the open market to settle. You pay in whatever you hold. The network settles in its unit of account.
This is not optional. The Convert Protocol is the the STORE economy entry point. When external value arrives - a card charge, a wire, a USDC transfer - MS-204 converts it to bits at the RATE-ORACLE price, issues bits to the account, and anchors the entry to the governed-ledger with three simultaneous marks. Average settlement: 63-97 seconds.
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The structural demand mechanism: every transaction that arrives in any currency must be converted to STORE bits before the protocol can record it constitutionally. As transaction volume grows, structural STORE buying grows with it. This is not a feature of the token. It is a property of the STORE settlement layer.
How trust expands the protocol
STORE starts with its own five data centers - fully verified, BFT-governed, governed-ledger anchored. The protocol expands beyond those five data centers not by building everything itself, but by extending trust to external clouds and AI models that earn their place through economic commitment.
A cloud provider or foundation AI model holds STORE TREASURIES. The size of their position determines how deeply their resources can be listed and sold inside the STORE protocol. Their compute, storage, and AI inference becomes available to STORE users - priced in bits, governed by the same the rules. STORE sells verifiability to them. They bring scale to STORE. Symbiotic, not competitive.
The expansion path: hold STORE TREASURIES - earn a governance vote for listing - resources appear in the STORE protocol priced in bits - tokens accepted as payment. This is how STORE trusts AWS. How it trusts Google Cloud. How it trusts Claude, GPT, Gemini. The monetary commitment is the entry mechanism. The governance vote is the ratification. The more trade, the more trust.
STORE validates trust through monetary commitment and governance vote, then provides the compute layer on which those trusted resources run. Any cloud or AI that earns its place through TREASURIES and the FTT verification primitive gets listed inside the protocol. Any that does not, does not.
Nation-states and sovereign funds
Nations can buy STORE TREASURIES. The model is a conviction bet on computing infrastructure - the same way sovereign wealth funds buy T-bonds as conviction bets on economic development. A sovereign deposit is not a speculative position. It is a partnership: the deposit funds real compute infrastructure deployed in the nation's territory.
When a nation deposits into STORE TREASURIES, the protocol commits to deploying a data center and a full STORE node within that nation's borders. The sovereign earns Fed-rate-anchored protocol rewards. The network gains geographically distributed fault tolerance. The nation gains sovereignty over a node in the STORE compute network. Every data center partnership requires a +2/3 governor supermajority vote - nations cannot buy their way in unilaterally.
The sovereign investment loop
Switzerland is queued as data center six - enshrined by governance vote under the Leslie Groves Protocol, not a corporate decision. How this product will be classed is a question for counsel and the agencies. It has not been ruled. STORE nodes are not virtual machines sitting on existing clouds. They are clouds.
STORE is symbiotic with central banking - not competitive. It is a unit of account for computing resources that central banks do not issue. Sovereign deposits do not affect monetary policy. They fund the STORE compute layer. The BFT fault-tolerance formula: minimum 3f+1 nodes, where f is the number of tolerable simultaneous failures. Sovereign data centers increase f and therefore increase network resilience.
What nations receive
When a democratic nation buys STORE TREASURIES, TREASURIES is the entry point. What the nation actually receives is a full STORE stack - compute, governance, and AI - that no company, no government, and no AI system itself can unilaterally control.
- L0/L1Constitutional compute infrastructureVerifiable CPU, GPU, storage, bandwidth - all priced in STORE bits, all VERIFY-anchored to the governed-ledger. Deployed in the nation's territory by governance vote. Not virtual machines on top of Amazon. Actual clouds.
- L1Democracy as a Service - governance layer+2/3 BFT BFT consensus. The protocol that ensures no single actor - including the host nation - can control more than one-third of any decision. The first application built on STORE Cloud.
- L2Triangle AI - "The Governor"Sits between any foundation model and the user. Eight constitutional checks at inference time. The model cannot bypass it. Governance Binding Strength Level 4 - structural enforcement, not suggestions. 50% of Triangle AI revenue reinvests in STORE infrastructure by protocol default.
The kill switch: if STORE governance votes to restrict or deprovision Triangle AI, the infrastructure enforces it. The AI has no recourse because it runs on infrastructure the governance layer controls. This separation of powers - between AI execution and AI governance, across separate jurisdictions - is what makes Triangle AI different from every other AI product. A nation that buys STORE TREASURIES is not buying tokens. It is making a conviction bet on the infrastructure layer of constitutional AI.
Who decides
Three different monetary systems. Three different answers to the same question: who decides the supply?
| Supply cap | Inflation | Burning | Who decides | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bitcoin | 21M hard cap | ~0.83% | No | The algorithm |
| Ethereum | None | ~0.23% net | Yes - variable | Core developers |
| STORE | 1B authorized | 2% + 3% caps | Never | 126 governors, +67% vote |
Bitcoin's algorithm was written in 2009 and cannot be changed without a community fork. Ethereum's inflation varies with network activity - EIP-1559 burns reduce supply when fees are high. STORE's caps are constitutional - currently 0% pre-launch. Both caps require supermajority to change.
TREASURIES
TREASURIES lock supply and pay yields anchored to the 2-Year Federal Funds Rate. They create deflationary pressure while remaining symbiotic with central banking - not a currency replacement, sound money infrastructure for a unit of account that central banks do not issue. Yields move with the Fed, updated each Q4 from FRED data.
Early exit carries a 75% penalty unless the contract is sold on the Security Marketplace, whose R&D and regulatory work begins once the network sustains a $500M circulating supply market cap for six months. The marketplace is the liquidity mechanism - no penalty for selling, only for withdrawing early.
Estimates anchored to the 2-Year Federal Funds Rate, updated each Q4 from FRED data.
| Term | Annual reward rate | Re-commitment multiplier |
|---|---|---|
| 2-Year | Published at launch | 1.1x on 50%+ rolled |
| 4-Year | Published at launch | 1.2x on 50%+ rolled |
| 8-Year | Published at launch | 1.4x on 50%+ rolled |
TREASURIES specified, not live. Opens at Armstrong launch, subject to regulatory approval and governor ratification.
$2,500 minimum. 5% endowment fee on protocol rewards - constitutionally mandated, funds protocol operations. Founders committed 60%+ of holdings to 8-year deposits. Early withdrawal carries a 75% penalty. Contracts can be sold without penalty on the Security Marketplace, whose R&D and regulatory work begins once the network sustains a $500M circulating supply market cap for six months. TREASURIES launches at a $100M circulating supply market cap sustained for six months, subject to regulatory approval under the GRTP sequence.
The roadmap
New capabilities activate when the network sustains a circulating supply market cap threshold for six consecutive months. Circulating supply market cap is tokens in active circulation × price - it excludes locked TREASURIES, unvested grants, and reserve tokens, and it is never fully diluted valuation. The six-month window prevents gaming. The thresholds require +67% to change.
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Smart contracts versus CLEAR
Most Web3 protocols automate execution through smart contracts - code running deterministically on the EVM. STORE uses CLEAR, where execution is governed by human-ratified rules. Smart contracts trust the code. CLEAR trusts the constitution.
| Smart contracts | CLEAR | |
|---|---|---|
| What you trust | The EVM and the code | Constitutional mathematics + 126 governors |
| Changing parameters | Code upgrade + fork | Governor ballot |
| Error correction | Bugs are permanent without a fork | Correctable through governance |
| Who holds power | Code authors and validators | 126 governors in 30 countries |
| Denomination | Encoded in contract | +75% governor vote required |
STORE uses Circle USDC as a settlement rail and smart contracts as one execution layer. CLEAR governs both. Smart contracts are a tool. The constitutional layer is the system.
What requires a vote
- +51%Token priceGovernors voted to lower it three times. Including reversing an increase at 89.47% approval in January 2022.
- +67%Inflation caps, yield multipliers, roadmap thresholds, rate-oracle sourcesThe monetary parameters. The 2% governance cap and 3% TREASURIES cap are both at 0% pre-launch.
- anymonetary auditAny governor, once per 30 days. Proves total bits in circulation matches the governed-ledger record. Earns +5 civic score. Article XXI.
- +75%Denomination change1 STORE = 100,000,000 bits. United Consensus. Six-month cooling period. Article XIX.
Supply
Release schedule: The token release schedule and economics are voted on by First Governance before launch. The release may be incentivized and performance-driven. Supply may expand through protocol rewards to fund 10-20 years of operations - within the supply cap enforcement caps.
Post-quantum monetary records: Constitutional research is being finalized to protect every monetary policy ballot, TREASURIES Cloud ID, and CLEAR transaction record with post-quantum cryptographic signatures (Dilithium3 / NIST FIPS 204) - original patent filings are being prepared. The classical layer is live today: five data centers, 126 governors, 1,800+ consecutive days, zero violations.
Storage rule: All STORE balances stored as BIGINT (8-decimal integer). Never DECIMAL. Never floating point. Never "micro-STORE."
Rounding: CEILING for costs. FLOOR for payouts. Always.
Three-lane payment architecture (canonical):
Lane 1: Cloudspace via card → Swiss Association + FastSpring (Merchant of Record)
Lane 2: Cloudspace via STORE tokens → protocol internal, 10% discount
Lane 3: STORE token purchase → Transak One (card → USDC → STORE token)
Equity: off cards entirely, regulated portal path only
MATCH inquiry: deferred. Adyen: not applicable.
The STORE monetary system operates across all layers of the Democratic AI Stack.See the full stack →Coming soon