Energi aims to become a dominant cryptocurrency platform by fostering a self-funding and governance system, absorbing and innovating the most advanced technology in the space — including full smart contract capabilities, and infinite scalability. Further, by removing the cryptocurrency space’s common barriers to entry, Energi plans to become the most user-friendly, secure and trusted platform for building and trading value.

Energi was conceived by Tommy World Power on the 4th of July 2017 (Independence Day in the USA), created with a heart of freedom and liberation for humanity. Tommy’s vision is that of a powerful self-sufficient and economically-optimised cryptocurrency (which alone is very rare in the space), combined with smart contract capabilities, decentralised governance, and strong moral leadership.

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Features

• Scalability
  One minute block times and a 2 megabyte block size limit provide Energi with a vast transaction capacity for regular on-chain transactions. This allows for plenty of space on the blockchain for extremely fast transactions with very low fees.
  Energi features a powerful on-chain scaling solution with a system of incentivized full nodes called Energi Masternodes. A masternode is a full node backed by 10,000 NRG collateral that provides level 2 scalability to the Energi Cryptocurrency. The Instant Send feature allows for instant transactions, even in times of network congestion. Transactions can be made securely and instantly ahead of the blockchain, as they are approved by a quorum of masternodes. Instant Send payments enjoy the same immutable transaction history as regular transactions, as they are later resolved on-chain as the network is able to.
  40% of the inflation of Energi is allocated to masternodes, providing an extremely strong incentive to grow the number of full nodes and scalability of the network.
• Funding
  A key feature of Energi is its powerful treasury system. Energi makes up to 40% of the inflation available to the treasury, to be utilized in a manner that provides maximum benefit.
  Treasury allocation is decentralized, allowing for submitted proposals from anyone, to be voted on by masternodes and paid out from the inflation.
  Energi has a 14 day treasury cycle, allowing quick payments for proposal authors and contributors, as well as strategic responsiveness to effective proposals. Energi is guided by the principle that every dollar spent from its funding model, should yield more than dollar of value in return. Thanks to a 14 day treasury cycle, the Energi team is able to measure results and respond quickly to changes in strategy.
• Governance
  The Energi Treasury is a decentralized governance model designed with Masternodes as caretakers and stakeholders in Energi, with voting rights on how to best utilize treasury funding.
  This governance model reduces risk in the form of allowing participation from everyone who holds 10,000 NRG. In this way, the Energi community can work together on how to best build the strategic direction of Energi.
• Inflation
  Energi Cryptocurrency has a simple rate of inflation at 1 million coins per month with no maximum cap. This ensures consistency in funding allocation, masternode rewards, and PoS rewards, making the economics of the cryptocurrency more understandable for everyone who chooses to participate in Energi.
  No coin supply limit ensures that Energi is prepared for the long term, avoiding “bubble” economics caused by dramatic early inflation that in most coins only serves to benefit founders ahead of increased adoption.
• Distribution
  Energi conducted a fair launch on April 14, 2018 with NO ICO and NO PREMINE. Prior to launch, the Energi team gave a specific time and date for the launch of its main net, which its vibrant community eagerly awaited, so that mining could begin fairly, again avoiding centralization among the coin founders (It's important to note that Energi has transitioned to Proof-of-Work consensus to a Proof-of-Stake consensus).
  Energi masternode payments were designed to begin at block 216000, which occurred on September 18, 2018, almost 160 days after launch. This ensured time to list Energi on exchanges, and to grow the community, encouraging fair and equitable distribution before the extremely powerful masternode rewards began. It is all too common for masternode coins to feature a premine, which has the effect of centralizing distribution among the founders and early adopters.
  Energi has an ongoing Earndrop; a distribution of 4 million coins to users who contribute with social media activities about Energi, such as tweets, follows, and subscriptions on all major social media platforms. So far nearly 1 million coins have been distributed, helping to grow an enthusiastic community and serve to bring coins to the market in a way that is inspired by generosity.
• Decentralization
  Delayed masternode payments have allowed the market time to react to the future of Energi, helping to ensure a decentralized community of masternode holders.
  Decentralized governance with masternodes help to ensure everyone is able to participate in Energi and help guide the project to achieve the best results.
• Long Term Vision
  All of the above features seamlessly work together in concert, to ensure that Energi is prepared for the long term. Rather than try to closely find a niche in the market, Energi is prepared to adapt and overcome all challenges for many years to come. Energi’s use case is that of a traditional cryptocurrency, such as Bitcoin. However, Energi’s strategy is to excel by avoiding the pitfalls of previous projects, while further utilizing and improving upon the most powerful ideas in the cryptocurrency space.

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Energi is in the process of moving to Gen 3; an Ethereum-based code-base. Energi will adopt all of Ethereum’s existing capabilities, but will also be imbued with our finely tuned Treasury and Governance model to drastically expand growth and adoption.
We are grateful to the Ethereum developers and community, and will support Solidity developers and projects who come to Energi where they may benefit from our services, while working with the same basic coding architecture.
Over time, Energi will continually upgrade the code-base to maximize capabilities, or eventually develop a brand new platform with the latest technology as the greatest needs within the cryptocurrency space become clear and continue to evolve.