A public, verifiable, EVM-compatible Layer 1 blockchain, built to outlast today's cryptography.
AERE Network is a public Layer 1 blockchain (Chain ID 2800) that runs the Ethereum Virtual Machine and is designed to be checked rather than trusted. It produces a block every half second with deterministic finality, charges a fraction of a cent for a typical transfer, and offers native, protocol-level verification of NIST-standardized post-quantum signatures at the account and application layer, live on mainnet.
AERE is a standalone Layer 1, not a rollup or a sidechain. It uses the QBFT consensus engine from Hyperledger Besu, exposes a standard Ethereum JSON-RPC API, and runs Solidity and Vyper contracts unchanged. Any tool that works against Ethereum, MetaMask, Hardhat, Foundry, ethers.js, viem, works against AERE with a chain-ID change.
The network's defining feature is quantum readiness at the account layer: five native precompiles covering Falcon-512, Falcon-1024, ML-DSA-44 (FIPS 204), SLH-DSA-128s (FIPS 205), and SHAKE256 (FIPS 202) activated on mainnet on July 12, 2026 at block 9,189,161, and all five pass the official NIST Known-Answer Tests. Mainnet consensus signing itself remains classical ECDSA today; hybrid post-quantum consensus is under development on isolated test networks and is gated on an external audit.
Chain ID
2800 (public EVM Layer 1)
Consensus
QBFT, seven Foundation-operated validators, deterministic finality (quorum five of seven)
Block time
0.5 seconds, no reorganizations on finalized blocks
Token
AERE, fixed supply of 2.8 billion set at genesis, no new minting
Post-quantum
Native NIST PQC verification live at the account layer on mainnet
Throughput
Block parameters imply a design ceiling on the order of 273,000 TPS; that is a ceiling, not a measured live rate
AERE Network is operated by the AERE Foundation, which stewards the protocol, maintains the open-source codebase, funds builders through a public grants program, and supports on-chain governance. The Foundation operates the validator set today and publishes the decentralization path in the project roadmap and whitepaper. Leadership and contributors are listed on the team page. The network has not yet completed a third-party audit; the proofs and conformance tests published by the project are its own work, offered for anyone to re-run.
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