Before delving into the project itself I would like to explain the reason behind it and what we are aiming to achieve.

A past in energy

I had already dabbled in energy prior to this new project: I developed the Sharge app in Silicon Valley — an app which connected owners of electric car charging stations with electric vehicle-owners wanting to recharge their cars.

In which I discovered the bureaucracy that exists in the world of energy. We had lots of legal obstacles, such as the impossibility of reselling energy, inefficiency, antiquated control and distribution, regulation written centuries ag.

Decentralized technologies can make this possible. We need a new energy system to build the smart cities of the future. The times of monopolistic enterprises, supplying electricity to a clearly defined area, are over.

Today, taking a stand to help this battle, we are introducing Shasta.

Shasta is all you need to operate with energy, on the Ethereum blockchain.

Shasta is a web where suppliers and consumers can connect, building a new and unique energy network model through a DAO (Decentralized Autonomous Organization).

Built on the blockchain of Ethereum, Shasta aims for people to operate with energy in a simple and decentralized manner, which can empower any person to be a consumer and producer, through fair prices, marked by the people who are inside this network.

This platform will allow users to choose the source of their electricity, interact easily in the market and choose the lowest price without barriers or intermediaries.

A fundamental free energy market embedded into code.

The management of payments, receipts and all the detailed information to control the energy management is done through an intuitive user-friendly interface.

Shasta Platform

Shasta App — Finances

Shasta App — Producer

All internet citizens will be able to buy and sell energy to the network free of charge, forever. A complete energy marketplace that can never be defeated. A marketplace owned and operated by the people that use it, which will mean the democratization of energy.

With Shasta we are solving some of the biggest problems we’ve encountered on the world for the past centuries. We have already release our first public alpha.

Such basic human rights should not be optional to begin with.

If you want to join us in this journey, you are invited to join our telegram announcement channel.

Head to shasta.world and try it out. It will not be an easy journey, but we can do it, together.

Shasta Team.

About the Author

Alex Sicart is the Founder of Shasta.

He is a Forbes 30 Under 30 and Imagine Silicon Valley scholar 2016. Prior to creating Shasta, he created FileNation, with it you can easily share your files around the world through a new P2P technology called IPFS (InterPlanetary File System).

Sicart had already dabbled in energy prior to this new project he’s now embarking on: he won an Audi scholarship to spend a summer in Silicon Valley with two colleagues, where they developed the Sharge app — an app which connected owners of electric car charging stations with electric vehicle-owners wanting to recharge their cars.