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[STORE // @thestorecloud]

Community Update - June 12, 2026

The STORE Pay 3.0 micro test network is in progress.

Thank you to everyone who participated. Transactions came in from Malaysia, Paraguay, France, Netherlands, Nigeria, and more. Real users, real payments, real feedback. Some of you hit delays and friction - we saw it, and your feedback matters.

We're now synthesizing everything. Once we've worked through the results, we'll share what we learned, what's changing, and what we're improving. Then we'll release one final version of the test - with another 2,500 STORE for anyone who completes it. We're aiming for next week on this.

What you're testing is more than a payment flow.

STORE Pay is the foundation of CLEAR - our governed transaction protocol. Math-based. Machine-speed. Human-managed. Every transaction is verified, signed on-chain, and tied to a Cloud ID that anyone can check. That's not how payments work today. That's how they need to work as AI and economics collide.

When intelligence starts moving money - when agents start executing financial decisions - humans need to be in the loop. Verifiably. Not by policy. By math.

That's what you're helping us build.

Keep the faith. We're close.

[STORE // @thestorecloud]

Update: We continue to make progress on the R&D of Cloud Markets. It's the final piece of R&D to finalize before we can formally layer in full logic of checks and balances.

To review an early version of the first specification, DM to join our private community review. We have several in it today and would like to grow this group to at least 5 community members.

If you have knowledge and interest in capital markets, economics, nation state governance, federalism, and auction marketplaces, please join us. Reply with your interest. We'll DM to share registration details.

The review will be a precursor to our larger public peer review on constitutional mathematics (same stack).

[Chris McCoy @TheRealMcCoy]

Math-based, machine-speed, human managed (verified) democracy is how we stay in control of AGI permanently. This is our research @thestorecloud - we've been deep on the issue since 2019.

[STORE // @thestorecloud]

Update: Major breakthrough on STORE Infrastructure costs for Markets. We've been working on this problem for several years and closed out the dynamic nature of pricing today. It'll help us finish our mServices technical specification for pricing.

mServices = what STORE sells

m = machine speed, math-based, human managed (governed)

Amazon sells web services.

STORE sells mServices.

[STORE // @thestorecloud]

STORE: A massive endeavor taking its final shape before we are able to launch across two countries who will check and balance each other on the governance, economics, and intelligence of verifiable cloud computing and Democratic AI.

[STORE // @thestorecloud]

Update: We completed the unified transaction database - over 400 transactions across eight years, every element of the $STORE token economy - token sales, grants, token warrants, more - mapped to a 26-field compliance schema covering both the U.S. C-Corp and the prospective Swiss Association. That schema is next headed for review with DETOF, our Swiss finance team. Their latest review came back with substantive guidance on withholding tax, VAT treatment, social security, AML requirements, and Canton Zug filing structure. No blockers. We are implementing their feedback and the schema locks when that work is done.

[Chris McCoy @TheRealMcCoy]

Cracked it: the Democratic governance of Agentic Economies where, yes, the machines tithe, democracy strengthens, and capitalism prevails.

[tom____davey @tom___davey]

@CryptoAvex @Amaro_Pargo_ You should have a look at what @thestorecloud is working towards. They are taking their time and making sure it’s done right

[//Bitcoin 𝕵ack 🐐 @bitcoinjack]

Every fortune 500 company right now is spending insane amounts of money to figure out how they can use AI with a harnass that guarantees their security, alignment, access levels, protection of IP, corporate strategy and data etc. Governance, done right, is the key to those guarantees. I imagine that AI will become one of the largest expenditures on anyone’s balance sheet and the harnass to execute this will be leading the rate of adoption, because trust is the key.

@thestorecloud is solving for this.

[//Bitcoin 𝕵ack 🐐 @bitcoinjack]

The most important things to focus on right now in the world (of investing)

1. AGI / ASI

If Google is right, super intelligence will emerge not straight from a single model and agent, but from a collective of specialized agents and the mathematical keys to streamline their collaboration.

2. Governance of AGI / ASI

Ensuring AI aligns with and benefits humans the single most important issue humanity is facing right now. Companies will require ultimate control, from business execution to security. Governments will require the same, from research, law decisions, enforcing laws, security for access control, to making sure defense departments are safe and effective. And then you have the surface areas where citizens, companies and government collide, much of which will involve AI as well.

AI will require checks and balances. AI will be responsible for actions on executive level, judicial level, security level. It will perform actions to enforce rules and it will feed the system with information leading to change.

Neither governments nor companies (and individuals) are ready to cope with the fact that machine speed execution will require machine enforced rules, rules which ultimately require governing by humans.

The power of who governs AI must follow historically proven principles, like the US constitution that was the underlying foundation to the US governance system, preventing too much centralized power and protecting the balance of power between the state and its citizens.

Governance all over the world will require upgrading to implement systems that are ready for the AI driven machine age. The solution that will be adopted will dictate whether the future is dystopian or a future in which freedom is guaranteed.

ASI / AGI can’t exist without a human controlled harnass that is designed to both protect humans as well as enable the brightest possible future alignment that benefits us

At @thestorecloud we knew this 10 years ago. First, novel blockchain tech (layer 1) was designed with this in mind. That was the 2017/18 cycle.

Secondly, the idea that the network must own the infrastructure (layer 0), the cloud where compute and storage lives (and ultimately AI), at traditional cloud infra scale and speed, but trust minimized through incentives and rules, designed to increase decentralization as it grows. This was the 2021/22 cycle.

Thirdly, the idea that on any layer 2, where applications that deploy AI exist, layer 0 and layer 1 logic should be enforceable. Logic and rules, applied in real time, guarded by checks and balances, in a network where multiple branches of government vote on the rules, execution, security etc guarded by machine enforced constitution, voted upon by STORE holders on a one entity one vote principle, preventing money to be the sole system of power. This is the current cycle.

We never anticipated 10 years ago that AGI / ASI would advance so fast. Third development cycle was anticipated at least 4 years later, but when ChatGPT hit, it was clear that second cycle launch couldn’t proceed without pulling forward the third cycle development.

The development sprint to complete for launch, with all systems in place, sits at 70%. Regulatory (finma and mica) and tax gates are also required to finish, which will solidify STORE law backed by Swiss law in an association which, unlike other Swiss Foundations, will be owned by all STORE stake holders and voting rights are ensured, preventing elite shadowy control over the direction of the protocol.

There are many products hidden here, but Democracy as a Service is something that every company and ultimately nation states should be interested in. It gives them the blueprint and tools to create democracies finetuned to the scope they operate at, that enable human AI collaboration and ultimately safety, preventing rogue AI or human dictatorship, both of which would be detrimental to the humans involved.

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[Chris McCoy @TheRealMcCoy]

This is the most important piece on AI governance this year. You identified the exact problem. You identified why every proposed solution fails. Then you said you don't have an answer.

There is one.

The problem has three faces:

1. Private companies shouldn't hold kill switches on military infrastructure
2. Governments shouldn't have unchecked control over AI that enables mass surveillance
3. Regulation will be weaponized - 'catastrophic risk' means whatever the government wants

Every solution you considered fails because it operates within two options: corporate governance or government regulation. There's a third option. Constitutional math at the protocol level.

Not regulation. Not self-governance. Math - the same kind that runs TCP/IP. You don't regulate the internet by appointing someone to approve each packet. You run a protocol.

The thresholds already exist. The Founders used 2/3 supermajority to prevent faction capture. Lamport proved the same threshold as Byzantine Fault Tolerance in 1982. Separated by 195 years. Same math. Same problem - distributed agreement under adversarial conditions.

A deployment gate between any foundation model and the user. Eight constitutional checks derived from the actual Constitution - not a corporate constitution, not a regulatory agency. The thresholds are mathematical. A president can't redefine what 67% means. The checks are scored by ML and deterministic rules - not by political appointees interpreting vague terms.

Your surveillance cost calculation is devastating. 100 million cameras. $30 billion today. $300 million by 2030. When surveillance costs less than a building renovation, the only protection is architectural. Constitutional checks that make surveillance outputs fail the governance pipeline before reaching an operator.

Your deepest question - to whom should AI be aligned? The answer isn't the company, the state, or the AI's own moral sense. The answer is constitutional democratic governance, verified externally. The US Constitution has governed 330 million people for 237 years. Nobody needs to write a new one for AI. The existing one needs to be rendered executable.

This avoids the weaponization trap. You wrote: 'model says tariff policy is misguided - that's deceptive, can't deploy it.' That requires a political appointee interpreting a vague term. Mathematical thresholds don't work that way. 67% is 67%. Nobody redefines it by executive order.

The Petrov point matters most. When the boots on the ground are AI, human moral courage no longer saves us. The refusal mechanism has to be architectural - constitutional checks at the protocol level that fire before the AI acts. That's the Petrov mechanism for an AI civilization.

The question isn't whether to regulate AI. It's whether to govern AI constitutionally - with math no president can redefine, no corporation can drop under competitive pressure, and any citizen can verify.

This math exists. It's been running in production for eight years. $30 million governed democratically. Zero constitutional violations. The proof is operational, not theoretical.

The race isn't to build the most powerful AI. It's to build the most trustworthy deployment of powerful AI. Trust compounds. Coercion doesn't.

Happy to chat.

[Chris McCoy @TheRealMcCoy]

Anthropic dropping its RSP isn't a failure of character - it's a failure of structure. When the governed and the governor are the same entity, competitive pressure will always win. That's not unique to Anthropic. It will apply to every frontier lab. The real question isn't whether companies should self-regulate. It's whether we build an independent governance layer that companies CAN'T drop under pressure - constitutional constraints in a layer the governed entity can't modify. We need Anthropic. We need Claude in national security. But we also need democratic governance architecture where the trade-offs between safety and deployment are made through math, not market panic. Coordination, not capitulation. The alignment problem is a coordination problem. Today proved it.

[tom____davey @tom___davey]

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[//Bitcoin 𝕵ack 🐐 @bitcoinjack]

Yesterday I saw a demo of a layer 2 AI model governed through a trust minimized and checks and balances governed API that lives at the hardware layer

Democracy and enforcement at the machine layer 0, applied in a layer on top of existing models and blockchains, as a proof of concept

Governance solutions will be key to prevent disastrous outcomes

Heavily invested here on fixing that for humanity’s sake @thestorecloud

[STORE // @thestorecloud]

Update: We have an early implementation of the VERIFY protocol ready for testing inside STORE Pay. On-chain proofs of Long Storage are ready - cross-cloud communication and computation are finally here. We'll send the micro-test network out tomorrow.

[Chris McCoy @TheRealMcCoy]

Feels like connecting the transcontinental

[STORE // @thestorecloud]

Update: Our public launch dashboard is now live: https://t.co/nyTSjEanDD.

We'll update this monthly, alongside our advisory calls. The world will be able to understand what we're working on and against from a research perspective, a regulatory perspective, and our work stream from a tax/IP transfer perspective - ultimately resulting in a STORE launch from Switzerland.

[//Bitcoin 𝕵ack 🐐 @bitcoinjack]

This is EXACTLY what we have been designing for @thestorecloud to tackle

Machine speed governance enforced at the inference and hardware layer through the social layer, enforced by code and the correct incentives

What Bitcoin did for money, is what @thestorecloud does for democracy as a service

It’s an extremely complex challenge to make sure AI will benefit humanity

Perhaps the single most important subject to get right

And the AI scene is slowly waking up that it is time to move

[STORE // @thestorecloud]

Big tech is powerful - and centralized.

STORE puts humanity first - and the infrastructure we are inventing proves it.

[STORE // @thestorecloud]

Coming Soon: Incentivized Public Peer Review for constitutional mathematics - a new field of discovery we are formally presenting