January 2025: STORE launches publicly auditable economy with CLEAR protocol integration, advances democratic AI governance, and expands Swiss operations.
Greetings, STORE community! January has marked an energizing start to 2025, highlighted by the successful launch of our publicly auditable STORE Economy. This achievement represents a significant step forward in our mission to create a user-owned and verifiable high-performance cloud computing ecosystem.
We’re pleased to announce that our community can now track real-time progress through our protocol at storecloud.org/economy. This development exemplifies our commitment to transparency as we continue building the foundational elements of our democratic cloud computing future.
Engineering
January has been a landmark month for our engineering initiatives, crowned by the successful deployment of our publicly auditable STORE Economy. This system, powered by our innovative CLEAR sub-protocol, seamlessly combines on-chain and off-chain economic activity into a permanent, transparent record. We’ve achieved comprehensive automation of compliance and transactions, creating an efficient framework for our economic ecosystem.
The CLEAR protocol, which bridges our off-chain and on-chain economies, has moved from development to active implementation. We’re pleased to share that the initial draft of our IEEE whitepaper on CLEAR is now available, detailing this groundbreaking infrastructure that has been six months in development.
Significant progress has been made in our permanent storage capabilities, with the successful implementation of Cloud IDs for the STORE Economy. We’re expanding these features to include STORE AI Oracle, positioning us to showcase the world’s first user-owned and democratically governed AI. Unlike traditional LLMs, STORE AI represents a new class of economic AI, powered by STORE’s Dynamic Proof-of-Stake model.
We’ve also initiated development of STORE Identity, creating a universal identity framework for protocol users. This system, along with STORE Registration, is being carefully crafted to support our upcoming launch, ensuring a seamless user experience within our ecosystem.
Operations
Our operational focus this month has centered on establishing robust infrastructure across multiple jurisdictions. We’ve made substantial progress in architecting ATLAS (Automated Transaction Ledger and Accounting System) and expanding CLEAR (Compliance and Legal Economy Architecture Rails), creating a seamless integration between transaction execution and financial reporting.
The Treasury Branch has successfully begun its onboarding process, marking a crucial step in bridging operations from STORE: US to Switzerland. This team is implementing sophisticated tools and processes for ongoing compliance and operations, with particular emphasis on managing both traditional and crypto assets.
We’re also advancing the technical, regulatory, and legal framework required to introduce Staking and Depositing capabilities. These features represent exciting economic opportunities for our community, and we’re working diligently to implement them either at launch or shortly thereafter.
LEDGER, our solution for reporting and tax compliance, is being developed to address the complex challenge of maintaining compliance across multiple currencies and jurisdictions. By automating accounting and billing processes, we’re creating a streamlined financial management system for the entire STORE ecosystem.
Governance
January has brought significant advances in our governance infrastructure, particularly in developing checks and balances for our Treasury and Execution branches. We’ve created sophisticated tools to facilitate payment approvals and standardized processes for technology proposals through STORE Development Proposals (SDPs).
Our research into democratic scaling has yielded important insights through Hamilton’s Ratio, a STORE research discovery that ensures distributed democratic systems grow stronger without centralization. This breakthrough is particularly significant for AI governance, and we’re incorporating these specifications into the STORE Constitution’s founding draft.
The development of Byzantine Fault Tolerant Democracy (BFTD) continues to progress, with technical specifications being finalized alongside the drafting of articles for the STORE Association in Switzerland. This framework maintains our commitment to ensuring human prosperity in the age of advanced AI while establishing verifiable governance mechanisms.
ATLAS has emerged as a crucial logistics and communication system within the protocol, enabling branches to propose, vote on, and implement protocols under our system of checks and balances. Once operational, it will facilitate public reporting of governance activities across all branches, up to the governor board and governor DAO.
As we move forward in 2025, we remain focused on establishing STORE Democracy in Switzerland and bringing our vision to fruition. We’re grateful for our community’s continued support as we work to create a truly democratic and transparent future for cloud computing.
