Chris McCoy is a hidden researcher - someone with the scientist's mindset who came to it through a different path.
In 2017, he formalized something nobody had connected: Alexander Hamilton's 1787 constitutional design and Leslie Lamport's 1982 Byzantine Fault Tolerance mathematics are identical 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 - eight formulas, seven protocols, and the first mathematical framework for democratic AI governance.
Rather than publishing a paper and moving on, McCoy built the system and governed it for 8 years. $30 million in real economic decisions. Zero constitutional violations. The scientist's approach: build, measure, validate.
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.
Second cousin twice removed to Linus Pauling (the only two-time solo Nobel laureate), McCoy inherited cross-domain pattern recognition - seeing mathematical structure in one field and recognizing it applies to another. Growing up on food stamps in rural Washington before becoming a systems architect gave him unique perspective on how access to resources transforms lives. His test: would this work for someone back in Kelso - AND strengthen America's position globally - AND help democratic capitalism set the rules for AI?
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. Also supports innovation in sports and entertainment. Portfolio includes: Lightcell Energy (breakthrough energy), Tangible Robotics (next generation home robotics), Zestworld and Encore (creator platforms), foundational blockchain projects (STORE, Ethereum, Bitcoin), Jomboy (sports media), and The Argo (entertainment innovation in Milwaukee). In 2014, Marc Andreessen recognized McCoy on his "50 Unknown Rockstars in Tech" list for thinking in networks, payments, and sports media. Selected for potential to expand economic participation through mathematical governance frameworks.
As CEO of STORE Research and founder of Data4America, McCoy develops math-based protocols that align incentives to solve coordination failures - ensuring powerful AI tools serve democratic participation rather than corporate concentration.
Chris McCoy built governance infrastructure that has managed $30 million over 8 years with zero constitutional violations. His insight: Hamilton (1787) and Lamport (1982) independently solved the same problem 195 years apart - distributed agreement under adversarial conditions. He formalized this as constitutional mathematics: eight core formulas, seven protocols, the first mathematical framework for democratic AI governance.
As inventor of the BlockFinBFT consensus algorithm (two US patents, 15+ citations) and founder of constitutional mathematics, McCoy bridges theory and operation. 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 - bandwidth, chips, energy, metals, AI itself - and in technologies that distribute opportunity rather than concentrate power. Second cousin twice removed to Linus Pauling. The scientist's approach applied to the defining challenge of this century.
McCoy's insight that Hamilton (1787) and Lamport (1982) independently solved the same problem 195 years apart provides our analytical framework: systems that prevent faction capture through constitutional mathematics. He formalized this as a field - eight core formulas, seven protocols. The method: symbiosis - deals where all parties agree and everyone gains strength.
His experience building democratically governed infrastructure ($30M governed, 8 years, 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 twice removed to Linus Pauling. Cross-domain pattern recognition is the family trait. We look for it in founders.
