$ELEC

US Wholesale Electricity — Real-Time Index

The real-time price feed for US wholesale electricity

Built for a permissionless, agent-driven market.

$ELEC is a single composite index price for US wholesale electricity, streamed via API in real time and priced off a liquidity-weighted blend of ICE power hub futures contracts. There's no accessible retail electricity derivative today — $ELEC is built to be that instrument, and the first data product designed from day one to be bought and consumed by AI agents as easily as by humans.

View the API specRead llms.txt for agents
$820B+
US wholesale electricity market — annual size
200%+
Intraday price swings during grid stress events
Zero
Accessible retail electricity derivatives today

Two engineering tracks

The pricing product, and the delivery layer that makes it permissionless to buy.

The Price Feed Engine

  • Ingests electricity pricing data from public and private sources across 12 major ICE power hub contracts.
  • Composite index is liquidity-weighted with a volatility-amplification factor, published in real time on FX-quality servers and datapipes.
  • Pursuing data-licensing and sub-license/revenue-share arrangements with regulated exchanges and clearinghouses — the same structure used for existing power indexes.

The x402-Ready Agent Layer

  • Native agent-discovery infrastructure — llms.txt, an OpenAPI 3.1 spec, and an MCP server — so any AI agent or developer can find, understand, and call the feed with zero integration overhead.
  • Access runs on the x402 protocol: post a request, receive an HTTP 402 payment challenge, settle instantly in USDC on Base, and receive a signed session token. No account, no API key, no sales call, no invoice.
  • The product sells itself, 24/7, to any wallet or agent on earth — distribution cost per new user is close to zero.

Built for agents

No accounts. No API keys. No sales call. Access is purchased per session in USDC via x402.

01

Request access

POST /api/elec/stream/access with an EVM wallet address and a session window (1h, 4h, or 24h). The server responds with an HTTP 402 payment challenge.

02

Pay on-chain

Settle instantly in USDC on the Base network using any x402 client library. No registration, no invoicing.

03

Stream the feed

Receive a signed JWT session token. Pull a JSON price snapshot, or subscribe to the SSE stream for a tick every 0.5 seconds.

Machine-readable resources

llms.txt
Plain-language API guide written for agent context windows
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openapi.json
Full OpenAPI 3.1 spec for the price feed
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MCP server card
Tool definitions for get_current_price, request_access, and more
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.well-known/agents.json
Agent-discovery manifest — auth, endpoints, tags
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Distribution

$ELEC reaches retail traders through existing CFD, FX, and perps infrastructure — not a direct-to-consumer build.

Prime Broker (CFD)

Adds $ELEC as a tradeable instrument to existing API price feeds for retail brokers and platforms, prices and hedges client exposure.

Retail FX / CFD Broker

Adds $ELEC pricing to retail clients globally. Can pair with the $ELEC News Feed as a separate x402-metered add-on.

Introducing Broker / Perpetuals Exchange

Pushes $ELEC to retail traders in Asia-Pacific, LatAm, MENA, and Eastern Europe — markets with deep IB penetration and appetite for new volatile instruments.

What we're looking for

  • Electricity exchanges with data — $ELEC pays data fees and brings liquidity to underlying contracts.
  • Distribution partners — prime brokers, CFD platforms, and perpetuals exchanges ready to list $ELEC.
  • x402 builders seeking to decentralize financial services data feeds.
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