Layer 0 of the Democratic AI Stack
Hamilton AI prices, records, and verifies every action on STORE under the one-third ceiling that has never been crossed.
A 2/3-trusted and democratically governed network of constitutional pricing oracles. Every oracle is governed by 126 governors and priced in STORE bits. 39 governed oracles pricing 498 endpoints today, across protocol, compute, storage, and bandwidth. The intelligence layer that Armstrong launches on top of.
Hamilton AI is the Constitutional Core. Every other layer runs on top of it. See the full stack → Coming soon
$5,557 per year, as of September 2026
Annual cost to run the entire constitutional intelligence layer. 
142,476 STORE at the fixed SAFT price of $0.039. $44.10 per governor per year. Five partner locations, with STORE's own data centers in development. 39 governed oracles pricing 498 endpoints. 126 governors. 2,200+ consecutive days. Zero violations.
No other governed compute network publishes its operating cost.
Democratic AI Oracles
| ID | Oracle | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Cloudspace VM - Permanent Storage | ||
| 27 | Permanent Storage - Byte Forever Cost of permanent byte storage. Stored forever across all five partner locations with BFT redundancy. ai.storecloud.org/oracle/cloudspace-vm/dedicated/storage/permanent/store | 0.00000030 STORE |
| Cloudspace VM - Run-time Storage | ||
| 28 | Run-time Storage - Tier 1 - GB/sec High-performance run-time storage. Tier 1 - fastest access tier. ai.storecloud.org/oracle/cloudspace-vm/dedicated/storage/tier-1/store | 0.00000204 STORE / GB/sec |
| 29 | Run-time Storage - Tier 2 - GB/sec Standard run-time storage. Tier 2. ai.storecloud.org/oracle/cloudspace-vm/dedicated/storage/tier-2/store | 0.00000092 STORE / GB/sec |
| 30 | Run-time Storage - Tier 3 - GB/sec Economy run-time storage. Tier 3. ai.storecloud.org/oracle/cloudspace-vm/dedicated/storage/tier-3/store | 0.00000041 STORE / GB/sec |
| Cloudspace VM - Compute | ||
| 31 | Compute - General Purpose - GB/RAM/sec General purpose compute. Balanced CPU and memory. ai.storecloud.org/oracle/cloudspace-vm/dedicated/compute/general-purpose/store | 0.00008225 STORE / GB/RAM/sec |
| 32 | Compute - Compute Optimized - GB/RAM/sec Compute-optimized instances. High CPU-to-memory ratio. ai.storecloud.org/oracle/cloudspace-vm/dedicated/compute/compute-optimized/store | 0.00015069 STORE / GB/RAM/sec |
| 33 | Compute - Memory Optimized - GB/RAM/sec Memory-optimized instances. High memory-to-CPU ratio. ai.storecloud.org/oracle/cloudspace-vm/dedicated/compute/memory-optimized/store | 0.00005212 STORE / GB/RAM/sec |
7 of 39 oracles shown. Every live oracle is queryable at ai.storecloud.org.
is denominated in STORE bits (1 STORE = 100,000,000 bits). Every transaction and vote leaves
a public record anyone can check, with no personal data. Live today: five partner locations, 126 governors, 2,200+ consecutive days, zero violations.HAMILTON'S LAW - THE CAPTURE MATH
Corrupting STORE governance required flipping 3 of 6 founding governors in 2020. Today it requires 43 of 126. At 1,000 governors: 334. At 10,000: 3,334.
This is architecturally opposed to Metcalfe's Law - not mathematically inverse. Metcalfe is quadratic in N and concentrates. Hamilton is linear in N under a binding ceiling and distributes. Traditional networks make capture easier at scale. Constitutional networks make it harder.
| Year | Governors | To capture requires | Max concentration |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 (founding) | ~6 | 3 governors | ~16.7% |
| 2026 (today) | 126 | 43 governors | 0.8% |
| 1,000 governors | 1,000 | 334 governors | ~0.1% |
| 10,000 governors | 10,000 | 3,334 governors | ~0.01% |
S = N × (1 − max concentration) = 126 × 0.992 = 125.0 today. Democracy becomes harder to capture as it scales.
The Fermi Principle
Enrico Fermi's most innovative nuclear physics happened because the control rod existed - not despite it. The safety mechanism freed him to run the experiment for 28 minutes. Without the shutdown mechanism he could not have run the experiment at all.
Constitutional governance is not the enemy of AI innovation. It is what makes AI innovation bankable, deployable, and scalable. STORE governs STORE's own governance layer. The separation of powers is internal.