In 2017, Chris McCoy formalized something nobody had connected: Alexander Hamilton's 1787 constitutional design and Leslie Lamport's 1982 Byzantine Fault Tolerance mathematics are independent solutions to the same problem, distributed agreement under adversarial conditions. Same threshold. 195 years apart. Neither knew about the other. The Founders encoded distributed systems mathematics into the Constitution before computer science existed.
The result: constitutional mathematics, the first mathematical framework for democratic AI governance.
The work started long before 2017. In 2006, McCoy founded YourSports, a platform for connecting sports networks and moving money through them. Solving that coordination problem led him to cryptocurrency. Cryptocurrency led him to the consensus mathematics. In 2014, Marc Andreessen recognized McCoy on his "50 Unknown Rockstars in Tech" list for thinking in networks, payments, and sports media. By 2017 that research became STORE Research Inc.
Since 2020, that system has managed $30 million in real economic decisions across 126 governors in 30 countries. Zero constitutional violations.
Trusted America is McCoy's comprehensive policy framework applying constitutional mathematics to American competitiveness: GDP growth exceeding debt growth, surplus distributed through mathematical allocation. The partner everyone wants, not the bully everyone fears. When America wins, you get paid.
Through McCoy Ventures, he invests in the inputs that drive computing and AI: bandwidth, chips, energy, crypto, metals, AI itself, and in technologies that distribute opportunity rather than concentrate power. Portfolio includes Lightcell Energy, Tangible Robotics, Zestworld, Encore, foundational blockchain projects including STORE, Ethereum, and Bitcoin, Jomboy, and The Argo.
McCoy is the Founder and CEO of STORE Research Inc., Founding Partner of McCoy Ventures, and the second cousin three times removed of two-time Nobel laureate Linus Pauling (Chemistry 1954, Peace 1962).
Chris McCoy built governance infrastructure that has managed $30 million since 2020 with zero constitutional violations across 126 governors in 30 countries. His insight: Alexander Hamilton (1787) and Leslie Lamport (1982) independently solved the same problem 195 years apart, distributed agreement under adversarial conditions. He formalized this as constitutional mathematics, the first mathematical framework for democratic AI governance.
Co-inventor of the BlockFinBFT consensus algorithm (two US patents, 16 citing entities including IBM, Mastercard International, and Capital One). In 2014, Marc Andreessen recognized McCoy on his "50 Unknown Rockstars in Tech" list for thinking in networks, payments, and sports media. Through McCoy Ventures, he invests in the inputs that drive computing and AI and in technologies that distribute opportunity rather than concentrate power. Second cousin three times removed of two-time Nobel laureate Linus Pauling (Chemistry 1954, Peace 1962).
McCoy's insight that Alexander Hamilton (1787) and Leslie Lamport (1982) independently solved the same problem 195 years apart provides the analytical framework: systems that prevent faction capture through constitutional mathematics. The method: symbiosis, deals where all parties agree and everyone gains strength.
His experience building democratically governed infrastructure ($30 million governed since 2020, zero violations) provides operational proof that mathematical governance works under real economic pressure. We back founders who distribute rather than concentrate power, applying the same constitutional mathematics at earlier stages.
Second cousin three times removed of two-time Nobel laureate Linus Pauling (Chemistry 1954, Peace 1962). Cross-domain pattern recognition: seeing mathematical structure in one field and recognizing it applies to another.
