Inventor of the Energy Block Chain — the foundational patent for the measurement and tokenization of electricity. Founder & CEO of NFluxion. CEO of Farad Technologies Group. Architect of VELA Forex.
On April 16, 2024, the United States Patent and Trademark Office issued U.S. Patent No. 11,962,710 B2 to Nicholas VandenBrekel — Systems and Methods for Generation of Energy-Backed Digital Units Stored in a Decentralized Ledger. In fifteen claims, it describes the apparatus and the method by which a metered increment of generated electrical energy becomes a uniquely hashed, traceable digital unit on a distributed ledger. It is, in plain terms, the gateway and toll booth patent for the tokenization of electricity.
The implication is structural. Every kilowatt-hour generated under the method becomes an auditable, transferable digital asset at the moment of its creation, a one-to-one correspondence between physical energy and digital property, sealed at the meter. The patent is assigned to Farad Technologies Group, LLC, of which VandenBrekel is Chief Executive Officer.
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“To make a kilowatt-hour behave like property, verifiable at birth, transferable on a ledger, and auditable for life, is to give modern electricity the one thing it has always lacked: a unit of account that cannot be forged.”
VandenBrekel leads two operating companies that translate the underlying intellectual property into commercial form, one focused on the energy substrate, the other on the systems that depend on it.
The intellectual-property holding and operating company behind the Energy Block Chain patent. Farad Technologies Group develops the hardware-and-protocol stack that converts metered electrical generation into auditable, ledger-resident digital units.
Founded and led by VandenBrekel, NFluxion advances the application layer that sits atop the Energy Block Chain, productizing the market, accounting, and exchange systems required for energy-backed digital assets to function at scale. NFluxion has designed and commercialized the NFluxion 1000 Quantum Electrostatic Power Cell and the NFluxion G1 Electrostatic Generator. Both technologies at the absolute forefront of electricity generation and storage.
Designed and architected by Nick VandenBrekel, VELA Forex stands among the most sophisticated automated foreign-exchange trading platforms in the world. It fuses rules-based execution, machine-learning signal generation, and institutional-grade risk management into a single self-operating trading system, active, around the clock, across the major and minor currency pairs of the global FX market.
Nick famously coined the underlying philosophy of the VELA platform:
“What goes up must come down. It doesn't matter why, it only matters that it does. Nature abhors a vacuum. Everything seeks equilibrium.”
The platform reflects the same first-principles posture that runs through every venture VandenBrekel leads: a system should not need a human to behave intelligently, and it should never behave intelligently without an audit trail.
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Nick VandenBrekel is a seasoned entrepreneur, Navy veteran, aviator, electrical engineer, and physicist whose career now spans more than three decades at the intersection of technology, science, finance, and enterprise. Across that arc he has played a pivotal role in advancing foundational technologies in biometrics, communications, security, healthcare, finance and banking, energy, artificial intelligence, aerospace, and enterprise systems, a breadth few operators in any generation can credibly claim.
An accomplished commercial pilot, he holds ratings in fixed-wing single- and multi-engine aircraft as well as rotorcraft / helicopters, and is instrument-rated, credentials that mirror a lifelong commitment to precision and to service. He is a sought-after international speaker on the future of energy, distributed systems, and the technologies that reshape national infrastructure.
Taken together, his expertise, leadership, and unwavering dedication to innovation and service describe a career devoted to the advancement of technology, aerospace, and national security, and to building the systems on which the next century of infrastructure will depend.