STORE Launch Roadmap
Big Tech is building AI infrastructure with zero democratic oversight. Once they control it, game over.
Amazon, Google, and Microsoft control 70% of cloud computing. They make all decisions about pricing, policies, and AI behavior. Users pay bills forever, never own anything, never vote on anything.
Now they're racing to deploy AI at scale on that same centralized infrastructure. We estimate approximately 8 years to prove an alternative model works before the window closes permanently.
The Stakes:
If we don't establish democratic AI governance precedent NOW—with operational proof, legal frameworks, and constitutional mathematics—Big Tech will set the standard. And their standard is: shareholders vote, users obey.
Switzerland launch isn't just a token release. It's humanity's chance to prove democratic AI governance works at scale, backed by 8 years of proven infrastructure.
STORE is user-owned cloud infrastructure with a proven token economy where users buy STORE tokens and pay cloudspace fees, participating in democratic governance powered by 498 AI endpoints under constitutional control. 8 years live (2017-2025) with $30M governed democratically and real revenue from infrastructure services, targeting Switzerland launch ETA Q1-Q2 2026 (chosen for legal framework under Swiss law of democratic governance) to prove humanity can govern AI infrastructure before Big Tech locks it down permanently.
Targeting utility token classification under Swiss law, subject to FINMA/MME determination, with target launch Q1-Q2 2026 pending regulatory approval.
- Utility Token: Digital asset primarily used to access and pay for network services (like STORE for cloudspace), not for investment speculation
- Unit of Account: The fundamental currency in which all economic activity is measured and settled (like USD in traditional economy, STORE in our infrastructure)
- Cloudspace: STORE's hybrid infrastructure architecture combining approximately 95% off-chain performance with 5% on-chain verification for optimal speed + decentralization
- Byzantine Fault Tolerance (BFT): Mathematical guarantee that protocol functions correctly even if up to 33% of participants are malicious or faulty
- Hamilton's Ratio: Constitutional constraint ensuring no single entity controls >33% of network decisions
- CLEAR Protocol: Automated compliance infrastructure (STORE Pay + STORE Send + STORE Account)
🎯 Launch Status: ETA Q1-Q2 2026
Progress Breakdown (70% Overall)
Path Forward
What's Happening Now
- ✓ Phase 1 infrastructure functioning (STORE Monetary System, CLEAR, STORE Account)
- ✓ Production transactions processing (October 2025: Malaysia, Switzerland, Nigeria)
- 🔄 Swiss Association establishment (John Locke milestone - 50% complete)
- 🔄 MME classification evaluation in progress
- 🔄 Founding Elections preparation (Benjamin Franklin milestone - 25% complete)
- 🔄 Economies functioning (target: 2-3 by December 2025-January 2026)
The Founding Economy: Live Now
Operational Proof: Not Theoretical
STORE's token economy is proven today, not theoretical.
How It Works (5-Step Flow):
What this proves:
• Primary Utility: Users must hold STORE tokens to pay for cloudspace—functional necessity
• Unit of Account: Cloudspace fees denominated in STORE, costs settled in STORE
• Early Revenue: Services delivered, cloudspace fees collected, economy functioning. Revenue is recognized per service usage based on verifiable cloudspace consumption logs, consistent with SaaS accounting principles and Swiss GAAP FER standards.
Why This Matters:
This is what we're fighting for—STORE as unit of account, the payout currency. The Founding Economy proves utility works.
CLEAR Protocol makes this proven economy visible to Swiss regulators through real-time transparency. This visibility enables proper classification determination.
The Unlock: CLEAR Protocol
Autonomous Economic Operations Under Democratic Control
STORE's token economy is functioning—users buying tokens, paying cloudspace fees, infrastructure delivering services, revenue recognized. The Founding Economy works.
Switzerland's regulators need to SEE this proven economy through proper compliance infrastructure. CLEAR Protocol makes proven utility visible and auditable.
- STORE Pay: 14 currencies accepted, STORE-only settlement (unit of account proof)
- STORE Send: Automated token issuance with cryptographic verification
- STORE Account: Real-time balance sheet and P&L, publicly auditable
- Democratic Control: All operations under constitutional governance
Compliance Infrastructure:
- KYC Integration: Automated identity verification through API partner integration
- AML Monitoring: Transaction-level anti-money laundering controls
- Real-time Auditing: All transactions cryptographically verifiable
- FATF Compliance: Financial Action Task Force standards framework
- Swiss AMLA: Anti-Money Laundering Act compliance integration
- GDPR Controls: EU data protection regulation infrastructure
Core compliance operational (KYC, AML, auditing). Additional frameworks (FATF, Swiss AMLA, CDPR) planned for Switzerland launch.
The Invention Proving Credible Decentralization
This isn't incremental optimization. This is inventing autonomous economy infrastructure that proves—mathematically, cryptographically, and functionally—that STORE functions as credibly decentralized utility under democratic control.
AI-Governed Infrastructure: Intelligence at the Foundation
STORE decentralizes AI intelligence through trust-minimized AI—498 endpoints providing dynamic protocol intelligence to every system. 8 years live, 100% trusted, 0 failures.
Layer 0 Infrastructure
STORE Pay
498 AI Decision Points
📈 Why This Creates Compounding Demand
STORE Pay isn't just payment infrastructure. It's Phase 1 of a three-phase roadmap that creates continuous token demand.
Autonomous Payments
Autonomous Accounting
Autonomous Computing
⚡ STORE Pay: Operational Infrastructure You Can Test Today
STORE Pay is live and processing real transactions across three continents. Not theoretical—shipping now. Developers can pay in STORE directly, or use USDC, ETH, BTC, credit/debit cards, or wire transfers. All non-STORE payments automatically settle in STORE tokens. This proves our token economy works: users buying tokens, paying cloudspace fees, infrastructure delivering services.
Watch Live Transactions →The Compounding Effect
How it works:
Developers can pay in STORE directly, or accept USDC, ETH, BTC, credit/debit cards, or wire transfers. When paying in non-STORE currencies, STORE Pay automatically converts to STORE for settlement. Every user their app serves drives more infrastructure demand. Every app that succeeds = permanent STORE buyer.
The mechanism:
As STORE Pay adoption grows → more developers need STORE for payments → they build apps requiring more cloudspace → more permanent buy pressure. Phase 2 (accounting) and Phase 3 (computing) multiply this effect.
Traditional Models (Linear Growth):
- Stripe/PayPal: Extract fees, no token economies → Zero demand creation
- BitPay/Coinbase Commerce: Convert to fiat → Zero sustained demand
- Uniswap/DEXs: Facilitate trades → Demand only from fee buybacks
STORE Model (Compounding Network Effects):
Developers building on STORE Pay generate ongoing STORE purchase transactions as their economies scale. Each developer's economy creates MORE transactions as they grow, creating MORE STORE purchase volume.
This isn't one-time demand. This is structural, transaction-driven demand built into the infrastructure itself. More developers → More economies → More transactions → More STORE purchase volume as infrastructure scales.
For Swiss Regulators:
This proves STORE functions as the protocol's unit of account—not through speculation, but through infrastructure usage that creates real, sustainable token utility.
Important Disclosures:
- Transaction-driven demand does not guarantee STORE price appreciation. Developer adoption remains to be proven.
- Phase 2 and Phase 3 timelines subject to Switzerland launch approval and funding completion.
- Developer token integration capabilities subject to regulatory approval and applicable securities and tax regulations in each jurisdiction.
- This represents strategic vision, not guaranteed outcomes. Cryptocurrency investments involve substantial risk.
Now that you understand what STORE is and how it works, choose your path:
Why We Took the Harder Path
Switzerland with checks-and-balances vs Ethereum's centralized model
In 2022, we faced a critical fork: follow Ethereum Foundation's centralized model (faster) or build Switzerland's democratic structure (principled). We chose principle over speed.
Why This Matters:
We took 8 years to build what Ethereum could do in 2. But we built something Ethereum can't: mathematically enforced fairness with legal framework under Swiss law. No single entity can capture STORE. Ever.
Washington Consensus
1:1:1 Mathematical Fairness
- • 1:1:1 Formula: Security = Revenue = Costs = Votes
- • Leaderless: No single entity controls protocol
- • One Entity = One Vote: With 94 Governors, each entity gets exactly one vote regardless of ownership size
- • Nash Equilibrium: Cooperation > defection
- • Hamilton's Ratio: One-entity-one-vote structure ensures no single participant can exceed 33% voting power (~1% per Governor vs 33% constitutional limit)
TREASURIES
Infrastructure Security Utility
Key Distinction:
TREASURIES (3% inflation) = infrastructure security deposits. Second Governance (2% inflation, post-launch) = decision-making utility. Separate mechanisms, separate compensation.
Democratic Governance
8 years operational → Expanding to Swiss Association
- • 94 Governors across 30+ countries, one entity = one vote
- • Each Governor holds exactly 1 vote regardless of token ownership or revenue share
- • Hamilton's Ratio enforced: No entity can accumulate >33% voting power (~1% per entity vs 33% limit)
- • $30M governed democratically over 8 years
- • 76.95% average approval rate, 0 constitutional violations
- • 100% trusted: BFT f=31, 0 faulty nodes detected
- • Extends to Swiss Association at launch
- • Future: Auction-based Governor seats (post-launch, 2% inflation pool)
First Treasury
$30M Governed, Zero Failures
- • 5 Ballots: FG.001 (52.94%) FG.002 (89.47%) FG.003 (94.74%) FG.004 (76.19%) FG.005 (71.43%)
- • Stress Tests: COVID 2020, FTX 2022 survived
- • Founder Commitment: $11.7M locked (8-year term)
CLEAR Protocol
63-97 second transactions with cryptographic verification
STORE Monetary System
$30M private market cap governed democratically, 0 constitutional violations
First Treasury
$30M governed democratically, 0 constitutional violations
BFT Democracy Dashboard
100% trusted, 0 faulty nodes over 5 years
Permanent Storage
12PB storage with 99.99999999% redundancy
First Governance
p>$10,000 or more investment, one vote, 94 Governors today
STORE Explorer
Real-time network monitoring at storecloud.org
STORE NFT Publisher
Cross-cloud NFT minting with permanent storage
Autonomous Computing
Phase 3+ vision: Decentralized apps with sovereign token economies
What Competitors Offer
• Centralized Cloud: Fast but corporate-controlled pricing
• Smart Contract Platforms: Decentralized but expensive or centralized validators
• DePIN Projects: Static pricing, limited governance
What Only STORE Offers
• Adaptive Intelligence: 498 AI endpoints under democratic control
• 8-Year Track Record: $30M governed, 5 ballots, 0 violations
• Unit of Account Economics: Multi-currency entry, STORE-only settlement
Why This Matters:
A competitor starting today would need: 2-3 years to build AI governance infrastructure, 2-3 years to prove constitutional mathematics work, 3-5 years to establish operational credibility, and survive at least one major crisis. That's 7-11 years minimum—and assumes perfect execution without STORE's learned lessons.
Jurisdiction Comparison
Swiss Association provides legal framework under Swiss law for democratic governance. We researched the UK, Ireland, Singapore—none offered the same legal protections.
| Jurisdiction | legal framework under Swiss law | Democratic Governance | Decision |
|---|---|---|---|
| Switzerland | ✓ Yes | ✓ Protected | Selected |
| UK | X Limited | X Not protected | Rejected |
| Ireland | X Limited | X Not protected | Rejected |
| Singapore | X No | X Not protected | Rejected |
Regulatory Path Comparison
To launch in Switzerland, we must demonstrate STORE qualifies as a utility token. Spring 2025 regulators challenged us to prove STORE functions as the protocol's unit of account.
| Aspect | Path A (MICA) | Path B (Sufficiently Decentralized) |
|---|---|---|
| Regulatory Burden | High (ongoing compliance) | Low (legal framework under Swiss law) |
| Governance Flexibility | Constrained by EU rules | Protected by Swiss law |
| Timeline | Proven pathway | Under evaluation (Q1 2026) |
| Phase 2 Evolution | May require re-classification | Enables seamless expansion |
Current Status:
70% complete, targeting Q1 2026 determination. Path B (Primary): Protects democratic governance, enables Phase 2 evolution. Path A (Backup): Proven regulatory pathway, constrains flexibility. Building functional proof for Path B while maintaining Path A as backup.
You've seen the crisis (Big Tech controlling AI), the mission (Switzerland launch), and the proof (8 years operational with $30M governed democratically).
You've seen how CLEAR Protocol makes our proven economy visible to regulators. You've seen 498 AI endpoints under constitutional control and why competitors can't replicate our 8-year advantage.
Timeline Dependencies: Honest Assessment
We're operating in launch windows, not fixed dates. Current window: ETA Q1-Q2 2026. When timing adjusts—whether from regulatory feedback, technical dependencies, or execution pace—we'll update the community transparently with revised milestones and reasoning.
This represents a novel approach: democratically governed Layer 0 infrastructure with legal framework under Swiss law. We're moving fast while maintaining the high bar required for regulatory approval.
Phase 1 functional proof timeline targets ETA Q1-Q2 2026 (subject to funding completion and regulatory approval). Success depends on three critical factors:
Funding Dependency:
⅓ Milestone: Marcus Aurelius
$1.33M total ($473K remaining)
What This Unlocks:
Long-term bonus incentive vote - First Governance decides contributor compensation framework
½ Milestone: Thomas Paine
$2M total ($1.14M needed)
What This Unlocks:
Constitutional procedures + soft consensus - Formal governance structure activation
⅔ Milestone: Neil Armstrong
$2.67M total ($1.85M needed)
What This Unlocks:
Switzerland launch procedures - Final gate to global market entry
Technical Execution Dependency:
- • Payment Infrastructure: Target December 2025
- • Monetary System Integration: Target Q1 2026 (40% → 100%)
- • 2-3 economies functioning: Target December 2025-January 2026
Regulatory Dependency:
- • MME submission: December 2025
- • MME feedback: January 2026
- • First Governance ballots: Before launch
Why This Matters:
Q1 2026 is achievable if funding continues, technical execution proceeds as projected, and MME collaboration moves smoothly. Timeline may extend to Q2 2026 if challenges emerge. This transparency matters—no promises, just honest assessment of where we are.
Launch Readiness Summary
The Race Is On
Switzerland ETA Q1-Q2 2026 isn't just a token launch—it's humanity's first chance to prove democratic AI governance works at scale.
8 years of operational proof. 498 AI endpoints under constitutional control. $30M governed democratically across two major crisis stress tests. The foundation is built.
We estimate 5-10 years to prove an alternative model can compete at scale before the window closes permanently. The next 12 months determine if we get that chance.
Important Disclosure
STORE infrastructure is operational and processing real transactions. However, testing participation does not guarantee future access, features, or outcomes.
Launch timelines are subject to regulatory approval, technical completion, and funding milestones. Current window: ETA Q1-Q2 2026, pending MME classification determination.
Cryptocurrency investments involve substantial risk including possible loss of principal. Past performance of infrastructure does not guarantee future results. This roadmap represents strategic planning, not guaranteed outcomes.
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