The faucet gives a new address its first AERE on mainnet, so it can pay gas for its first transaction. It is at faucet.aere.network.
What it gives
| Network | AERE Network, chain 2800 (mainnet) |
| Amount | 0.05 AERE |
| Limit | One claim per address and per IP address every 24 hours |
| Cost to you | None. The faucet service pays the gas. |
This is mainnet, not a testnet. The amount is deliberately small: enough to send a first transaction and deploy a small contract, not enough to be worth farming.
How it works
Enter an address. Your browser performs a few seconds of proof of work, which is what makes automated draining expensive rather than free, and the service sends the drip.
The live figures on the faucet page, including its remaining balance and the number of claims paid, are read from the service and from the chain. Believe those over any number written into a page, including this one.
What it is not
It is not a sale, an airdrop or a distribution. AERE is not listed on any exchange. The faucet exists so that a developer with an empty address can make a first transaction without asking anyone for funds.
If you need more than a drip
For sustained testing, run against the public test network rather than mainnet, or run a local node with your own genesis. Both keep your experiments off a live chain and remove the rate limit entirely.