How It Works

Token Overview

Incentive Design

Operating Model

Token Emissions

Voting on Emissions

Flywheel

Market Dynamics

Real World Use Case

FAQs

Appendix

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The Platform

Households connect smart plugs from popular hardware manufacturers such as Shelly (10M+ already in use!) or existing compatible devices such as:

• Home batteries
• Solar panels
• EV chargers
• Smart appliances

Through Combinder these devices become ‘Distributed Energy Resources’ DERs, providing two core value components:

• Data: Real-time consumption and generation data
• Flexibility: The ability to control when devices produce, consume or store energy

Energy Players (Utilities, Virtual Power Plant Operators, Retailers, Grid Operators, etc.) use connected devices either to access flexibility for energy markets or to provide permissioned, user-consented device automation linked to retail energy services.

Revenue Model

Depending on the use case, Energy Players compensate DER owners either through flexibility market payments (capacity reservation and activation) or through service-level compensation linked to device automation and retail optimization services.

Flexibility market revenues for example follow a dual-payment structure:

• Capacity Reservation: Fixed weekly payment (€/kW) for reserving flexibility
• Activation: Variable payment (€/kWh) when flexibility is actually used

Most revenue flows directly to DER owners. A portion funds protocol operations and rewards $VGRD holders who vote to direct emissions.

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