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  "url": "https://blockindex.ai/coin/powr",
  "name": "Powerledger",
  "links": {
    "github": null,
    "website": "https://powerledger.io/",
    "whitepaper": "https://powerledger.io/power-ledger-whitepaper/"
  },
  "dScore": 29,
  "market": {
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    "priceChange7dPct": -6.59422867,
    "priceChange24hPct": -3.82330794
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    "circulatingPct": null
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  "ticker": "POWR",
  "founder": "Dr Jemma Green (Executive Chairman & Co-founder); John Bulich (Technical Director & Co-founder)",
  "vcFunded": false,
  "updatedAt": "2026-06-19T06:00:16.444418+00:00",
  "fairLaunch": false,
  "launchYear": 2016,
  "description": "Powerledger is a blockchain-based platform and token designed to enable peer-to-peer energy trading, renewable energy certificate (REC) management, and enterprise energy market solutions. Founded in 2016, the project has focused on building practical products—xGrid, Vision, PPA Vision and TraceX—that connect distributed energy resources, utilities, corporate buyers and market participants. Rather than centring purely on speculative token dynamics, Powerledger emphasizes real-world pilots and commercial deployments, with documented projects involving Calcutta Electricity Supply Corporation (CESC), Tata Power-DDL in India, Energie Steiermark in Austria and multiple trials in Thailand. The project positions its token, POWR, as an ERC-20 utility within a broader product ecosystem and has published a whitepaper and platform documentation describing its goals and architecture.\n\nTechnically, Powerledger operates across multiple networks: POWR is issued as an ERC-20 token on Ethereum and the project has also documented a Solana-based variant. The platform integrates on-chain token mechanisms with off-chain product capabilities to support settlement, certificate tracking and marketplace functions. Powerledger provides a staking portal and references a staking model to support network services; product pages describe data integrations (TraceX) for REC trading and integrations with market operators. While the combined materials do not include a public GitHub link or exhaustive protocol-level data (TPS, block timing), the architecture described reflects a token-centric model complemented by product infrastructure and cross-chain token availability.\n\nFrom a use-case perspective, Powerledger is explicitly enterprise-focused: its tools are aimed at facilitating P2P energy trading, enabling corporate REC procurement, managing PPAs, and supplying transparent settlement infrastructure for utilities and distributed generators. TraceX is positioned as a marketplace for granular renewable energy data and REC transfers, enabling corporate buyers to trace attributes and transact for compliance and voluntary markets. The project’s real-world pilots and partnerships demonstrate an emphasis on applied deployments over purely speculative network effects.\n\nTokenomics details provided in the available materials are partial: POWR has a maximum supply of 1,000,000,000 POWR and circulating supply snapshots (e.g., ~568.13M holders: 53.57K as shown in sources) are published on major market data platforms. Specific premine, public initial percentage (PIP), or allocation breakdowns were not present in the supplied extracts. Governance descriptions are likewise limited; the project presents a company-led structure (Powerledger as an entity) with executive leadership identified, but no explicit on-chain DAO governance, token voting mechanics or exhaustive treasury governance model are detailed in the provided materials. For a complete DScore and governance assessment, authoritative sources such as the project's tokenomics documentation, audited allocation tables, and NodeTracker outputs for full-node telemetry should be obtained.",
  "methodology": "https://blockindex.ai/dscore",
  "classification": {
    "layer": "Layer 2",
    "isToken": true,
    "consensus": "PoS",
    "parentChain": "ETH"
  },
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    "ageHistory": 13,
    "governance": 16,
    "nodeDistribution": 0,
    "initialDistribution": 0
  },
  "decentralizationVerdict": "Centralized Leaning"
}