The energy-backed money protocol
Stored energy stops being worth anything the moment the neighbourhood can't absorb it. Exergy is the settlement layer that lets that value travel instead: energy stored in one place can settle a bill on the other side of the world. The electrons never move. Only the value does.
Home battery stores solar energy
Why it matters
Key facts
Architecture
How Exergy works
Three simple steps. Fully autonomous.
Battery charges
A home or community battery charges from solar or wind. A standard battery management system (Tesla, BYD, Sonnen) reports measured kWh to the protocol: no custom hardware. Charging from the grid is not meant to issue notes.
Network verifies
Every reading is cryptographically co-signed at the device and VPP level, and the contract checks both signatures and the energy source: live today. Before mainnet: certified signing meters at the generation output and a cross-check against grid-operator data.
A note is issued
When a battery's verified charge rises above the highest level it has ever held, the contract issues notes for that growth to the participant. Recharging to a level already reached issues nothing. No humans, no middlemen, nothing sold to anyone: a note exists only because new energy was stored.
The mechanism
What actually backs a note
Measured, not promised, and verifiable by anyone in a block.
A note is issued, never sold
No pre-mine, no token sale, no investor allocation. A note exists only when the protocol verifies that real energy has been stored, co-signed independently by the device and by the VPP operator, with a hard cycle ceiling the contract refuses to exceed. Issuance always costs genuine hardware wear, which is what makes faking it pointless.
Backing is a live measurement
floating index = total verified energy in storage ÷ total notes
Recomputed continuously, on-chain, from those same measurements. Every holder can read the kilowatt-hours behind their note at any moment, alongside its market price. Nothing is self-reported and nothing is taken on trust.
The backing deepens by protocol
Every 1,000,000 notes issued, the issuance rate halves. The same stored energy then yields fewer new notes, so the kilowatt-hours behind each existing note rise. A widening physical ratio, not a forecast. We state what the energy content is. We never promise what the price will be.
Nobody underwrites the liquidity
A note is born inside an energy network and is useful there the instant it exists, settling with a participant who needs it more than they need their grid supply. Any price between zero and the grid leaves both sides better off, so deals do not wait for a lucky match. There is no bootstrap period and nothing for an institution to underwrite. Capital, if it comes, comes second.
For investors
Key Energy, Inc.
The company behind the protocol. Investors buy equity, never notes. Round materials and terms are shared under NDA, on request.
The deal
- EntityKey Energy, Inc. · Delaware C-Corp
- InstrumentStandard post-money SAFE
- What is soldEquity, never notes
- StagePhase 0 shipped · live on testnet
- TermsShared under NDA, on request
What you get
- Equity in Key Energy, Inc. (Delaware C-Corp)
- Key Energy receives 10% of every issuance for four years after mainnet, then 5%, plus 0.25% of every settlement
- A treasury of notes whose measured energy backing deepens as the network grows
- Liquidity via priced rounds, M&A, or IPO, not crypto markets
- Standard SAFE terms, cap-table recorded
Deep dive
Technical deep dive
For engineers and analysts
Live protocol simulation
Interactive dashboard: 4 VPPs, real-time minting, halving eras, cross-VPP settlement, demand surges.
Academic paper (SSRN)
Economic Theory of Relativity: the academic foundation for sectoral, energy-backed money.
Investor technical summary
Architecture, protocol economics, revenue model. The full story in one document, shared under NDA.
Contact
Talk to us
We read every message ourselves. Tell us who you are and what you have in mind.
Energy communities with storage
If your community, cooperative or council runs a battery, write to us. Tell us where it is and roughly how large. We will show you, on your own numbers, what your stored surplus is worth beyond your own grid.
Researchers, press, partners
Questions about the mechanism, the theory or the code, a critique, an interview request: one address, answered by the founder.
Official notice: there is no token sale
Exergy notes are never sold, pre-sold, airdropped or listed by us. A note is issued only when new energy is measured into a battery on the network. Any “Exergy”, “XRGY” or “Key Energy” token, coin or airdrop offered anywhere is not ours and is a scam. Do not send money to anyone selling it.
Official channels only: keyenergy.io · info@keyenergy.io · x.com/MagKey3 · github.com/MagKey07/exergy-protocol