The mainnet faucet is closed. Until AERE is listed on an exchange, the Foundation does not give out mainnet AERE.
What happened
From 2026-09-02 to 2026-10-15 a faucet service paid 0.05 AERE per address per 24 hours on mainnet, chain 2800, from a small operational amount, so that a new address could pay for its first transaction. It paid 0.55 AERE in total. It was closed on 2026-10-15 and the remaining balance of the service was returned to the Foundation.
Where to test instead
The public test network, chain 28001, runs the same node software as mainnet with the same consensus rules, post-quantum seals included, and it has its own faucet. Its test tokens have no value. Everything on the testnet page: the network details, how to add it to a wallet, and the test faucet.
You can also run a local node with your own genesis. Both keep your experiments off a live chain.
If you need mainnet
A production integration on mainnet can have its gas sponsored under an Aere Cloud plan, so that neither you nor your users need to hold AERE.