NVIDIA is not COKE

THE SOVEREIGN PROTOCOL (TSP)

Time Sovereignty Doctrine for Strategic Equities
Stopping structural raids on America’s compute and industrial backbone

Author: Mark Nichols
Status: Draft for Executive Branch briefing
Last updated: January 19, 2026

Note: This is not a politically divisive issue. This proposal is designed to be bipartisan and applicable to any administration. It calls for presidential-level action by the current officer of the Executive Branch.

Executive Summary

America’s compute and semiconductor stack is not a consumer sector. It is national capability infrastructure. Today the market treats strategic compute equities as if they are soda and sneakers, then allows plumbing-driven raids that can devalue them rapidly without new fundamentals.

The Sovereign Protocol (TSP) is a policy doctrine and a practical toolset to restore Time Sovereignty for long-cycle strategic firms. The TSP does not ban shorting, does not set prices, and is not a bailout. It is a security implement: if market plumbing can manufacture a raid, government can manufacture a defense layer that stops cascades, forces transparency, and gives real capital time to respond.

This page defines the national category, the measurable raid triggers, the stabilization mechanism, and the companion reforms that make the defense durable.

0. The Premise

(a) America’s strategic “natural resources” now include compute, chips, manufacturing capacity, and the industrial stack that secures national power.
(b) These assets are being raided through market plumbing. Time Sovereignty means protecting long-cycle strategic firms from non-fundamental cascades.
(c) Time is the asset you cannot buy back after you lose it.

1. NVIDIA is not COKE (Strategic Equity Classification)

(a) This is the category error.
(b) NVIDIA, Taiwan Semiconductor, Broadcom, Micron, Applied Materials, Lam Research, KLA, ASML, and the key nodes around them are not consumer brands. They are not “Coca-Cola economics.” They should not be governed like ordinary cyclicals.
(c) They are the industrial substrate of national power and they underpin:
(1) Defense and intelligence systems
(2) Critical infrastructure and communications
(3) Industrial competitiveness and manufacturing capacity
(4) AI capability and economic dominance
(5) Embedded platform dependencies across the economy
(d) When markets treat these firms like short-cycle consumer equities and then raid them through plumbing, the effect is strategic weakening executed through our own financial system.
(e) The threat is not only foreign. Domestic structures can function like pirates in broad daylight.

2. The Fix Package (TSP plus companion reforms)

(a) Goal: restore Time Sovereignty. Not a bailout. Not price-setting. A sovereignty security implement.
(b) This package is not a menu. It is one integrated doctrine. The mechanisms stack, and the fix must stack too.

2.1 Executive Order: Strategic Compute and Network Equities

(a) Create a defined national category of publicly traded companies treated as national capability infrastructure.
(b) Definition: “Strategic Compute and Network Equities” means publicly traded companies whose operations, products, or capacity are material to U.S. compute capability, semiconductor manufacturing capability, or AI deployment capability.
(c) Covered areas include: fabs; semiconductor equipment and tooling; advanced packaging; memory; GPU and accelerator compute; AI networking and interconnect; other critical supply chain nodes.
(d) Qualification test: a company falls within the category if disruption, devaluation, or financing impairment would reasonably be expected to materially reduce U.S. compute availability, manufacturing throughput, or AI deployment capacity.
(e) Once the category exists, targeted transparency requirements and stabilization triggers become coherent. You stop pretending NVIDIA is Nike.

2.2 TSP stabilization purchases (Treasury)

(a) Authorize Treasury to deploy time-limited stabilization purchases for designated Strategic Compute and Network Equities when measurable raid conditions trigger.
(b) Measurable raid triggers (objective, auditable):
(1) Abrupt single-name drop bands exceeded without disclosed fundamental cause
(2) Abnormal options activity consistent with forced hedging spiral
(3) Abnormal ETF creation or redemption volumes in strategic-heavy baskets
(4) Coordinated rumor spikes paired with price collapse
(5) Persistent fails-to-deliver above defined tolerance
(c) Mechanism: purchases sized to stop disorderly cascades, not to pick a price.
(d) Unwind: Treasury may sell shares back to the issuer or into the market after normalization under defined rules.
(e) Strategic purpose: this is not picking winners. It is defending the nation’s compute spine from plumbing-driven raids.

2.3 Single-name protections (Stop the drop, do not stop the trade)

(a) Intraday downside limiter: if a protected strategic ticker drops beyond X percent intraday, implement a price-floor lock for the remainder of the session. Trading continues. Liquidity continues. No prints below the locked floor.
(b) Cooling window: when the band is breached, trigger verification time and de-leveraging without forced capitulation spirals.

2.4 Kill the sleeve raid (Mandatory disclosure for internal transfers)

(a) Institutional transfer throttle: large sells or transfers above Y percent require SEC pre-filing and a disclosed execution window.
(b) Sleeve reallocation notification: large internal sleeve reallocations above X percent require notice to the SEC and to affected fund shareholders.
(c) Cash preference rule: if the destination sleeve has cash available, require a written explanation why it did not buy in the open market using cash instead of reallocating internal shares.

2.5 ETF and authorized participant transparency

(a) Require standardized reporting for strategic-heavy ETFs and authorized participants:
(1) Daily creation and redemption volumes (units and dollars)
(2) Authorized participant concentration (who is driving flows)
(3) Securities lending tied to the basket
(4) Correlated borrow spikes and short pressure indicators

2.6 Short and fails-to-deliver discipline

(a) This is not a ban. Shorting can be legitimate. Raid mechanics are not.
(b) Require stricter locate enforcement; intraday reporting for material short changes in protected tickers; escalating penalties for persistent fails-to-deliver; rapid enforcement for coordinated short-and-distort patterns.
(c) Price discovery is legitimate. A coordinated raid is not.

2.7 Rumor-cascade triggers

(a) Create automatic cooling triggers when price collapse exceeds thresholds without disclosed fundamentals and aligns with:
(1) Options spikes
(2) Coordinated rumor spikes
(3) ETF flow anomalies
(4) Short increases
(b) The point is not censorship. The point is to prevent high-speed rumor mechanics from becoming forced liquidation events before truth can catch up.

2.8 Federal Reserve oversight (No Greenspan 2.0)

(a) Require a rapid review mechanism and a national capability impact assessment when FRB actions materially impair strategic infrastructure financing.
(b) This is not about politicizing rates. It is about preventing catastrophic governance blind spots in the AI era.

3. Historical Precedent: Dot-com was mislabeled

(a) The term “dot-com bubble” persists because it collapses two different things into one smear label: industrial globalization infrastructure and junk issuance.
(b) You cannot fake industrialization. Fiber plant, interconnect, routing reachability, and global operational performance are physical reality.
(c) Market fact: NASDAQ peaked near 5,048 (March 2000), fell near 1,114 (October 2002), did not close above 5,000 until March 2015, and later closed above 20,000 in December 2024. Time is the asset we cannot lose again.
(d) AI is downstream of dot-com’s physical accomplishments. Blanket “AI bubble” labeling repeats the same category crime.

4. Deja vu all over again

(a) In 2025 to 2026, dumps can be engineered through market plumbing: ETFs and basket mechanics; fund sleeves and internal reallocations; options-driven hedging spirals; automated rumor cascades; short pressure and fails-to-deliver abuse.
(b) Price movement becomes a flow event, not a truth event. Flow can masquerade as verdict, force capitulation, then reverse, leaving investors damaged and strategic firms devalued at the worst time.

Closing

(a) If we allow structural raids on sovereign tech to continue, we weaken America using our own capital markets as the weapon.
(b) Time Sovereignty is national security.
(c) Request: Issue an Executive Order creating the Strategic Compute and Network Equities category. Authorize Treasury TSP stabilization buys under measurable raid triggers. Direct SEC to implement disclosure, ETF transparency, and fails-to-deliver enforcement for designated tickers.

Public Record

This proposal was submitted to the White House on January 19, 2026, and archived here for public review.