Big governance update In this next phase of the protocol, First Governance moves on-chain for the first time. Here's what that means. The next vote our First Governors cast won't happen through a Google Group email thread. It will execute through STORE. Vote notification arrives by email. You click, sign in, vote. It records on-chain via VERIFY. Governance compressed to mobile speed, with deadlines, quorums, and constitutional thresholds built in. This is what we're building toward: Humans craft the ballots. STORE Research and our Swiss Association launch partner team review and reach consensus. First Governors vote. At scale, multiple votes per week. Incentives for voting. Disincentives for not voting. A Governor Board elected to serve the governors - sitting inside the Swiss Association as a member, earning endowment revenue, representing governors who sit in markets. Markets compete with each other, support each other, and vote as a network. Governance is escalatory by design. Most votes are math-based - thresholds trigger automatically. Some are discretionary, where elected stewards deliberate. The judicial branch works in checks and balances with the Governor Board to reach finality. Think about how Congress works today. People have to convene in a building, secured, at enormous cost. We're compressing that to your phone, at machine speed, with constitutional integrity intact. If STORE ever needs to turn servers off - or turn AI off - the judicial branch can escalate to a Governor Board vote. Checks and balances built into the infrastructure. Not policy. Constitution. That's what we're building on the governance front. That's what's coming alive soon.

STORE Network Update · July 29, 2026 We're 90% through a micro test network review today. Here's the picture: What's in front of us: - A few cosmetic improvements - Some user experience edge cases to smooth out - A handful of items that touch the database layer - always our biggest lift, but the scope is small this time We're racing to ship the micro test network tomorrow. Whether we hit that depends on how this iteration goes - we'll keep you posted. What we're focused on: Responsive design is a priority. The protocol needs to work beautifully on desktop and be fully secure and functional on mobile. Both matter equally. We're also going the extra mile for non-crypto users. You don't need a wallet to use STORE - but if you want to receive STORE tokens directly from the protocol, a wallet is what unlocks that. We're making that setup as effortless as possible. Getting the onboarding right here is critical. What comes after: Once we close this build, we'll have an engineering and design stack that lets us move faster through everything that follows. Next up is STORE Send - we've lined it up with STORE Pay, STORE Onboarding, and STORE Account. This build expands the surface area for everything that comes next. To join our next micro-test network, email team at storecloud dot org. 2,500 STORE awarded for successful completion and feedback.

Today we announced our leaderless, asynchronous, Byzantine fault-tolerant consensus algorithm called BlockFin  on the Bitcoin Talk forum: bitcointalk.org/index.php?to…

Big thanks to @Stanford_Cyber for inviting the @StorecoinTeam to your #BPASE conference.

Welcome to the @StorecoinTeam ✔ @arrington ✔ @heatherharde ✔ @geoffreyarone We're excited to work with @arringtonXRPcap and honored to be one of your early projects.

Amongst the most important and least understood topics in public blockchains is Governance. It might be the most important. xitter.cf/msuster/status/9467736…