AERE Network - Press and Media Center

Newsroom, media kit, and an honest fact sheet for a public EVM Layer 1 built to be checked, not believed.

Half-second finality, typical fees below a cent, and a research record anyone can check: AERE Network is the settlement layer built for the day today's cryptography breaks. This page gives journalists, editors, and aggregators everything in one place, our live feeds, boilerplate, a verifiable fact sheet, logo assets, and a direct press contact.

Latest news

Current press release

AERE Network Is the First Public EVM Layer-1 With Native NIST Post-Quantum Signature Verification Live on Mainnet

Monaco, July 18, 2026. The complete research record behind the live post-quantum precompiles is published, an independently implemented second client reproduces the chain byte for byte at every height checked, and every served block header reconstructs its own hash.

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The AERE Network newsroom publishes original engineering updates, explainers, and official press releases. How it sources, dates, and corrects its content is described in our editorial standards.

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Media kit: boilerplate

Approved, ready-to-use descriptions of AERE Network. Every statement below is already published on our about page and in the current press release; please use them as written and do not add claims beyond them.

One line

AERE Network is a public, EVM-compatible Layer 1 blockchain (Chain ID 2800) with native NIST post-quantum signature verification live at the account layer on mainnet.

Short, about 50 words

AERE Network is a public, EVM-compatible Layer 1 blockchain (Chain ID 2800) operated by the AERE Foundation. 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 layer, live on mainnet.

Standard, about 120 words

AERE Network is a public, EVM-compatible Layer 1 settlement network (Chain ID 2800), operated by the AERE Foundation and built to outlast today's cryptography. It runs the Ethereum Virtual Machine with QBFT consensus on a Besu-derived client, producing a block every half second with deterministic finality and no reorganizations on finalized blocks; a typical transfer costs a fraction of a cent. Its defining feature is quantum readiness at the account layer: five native precompiles for NIST-standardized post-quantum signatures, activated on mainnet on July 12, 2026 at block 9,189,161, all passing the official NIST Known-Answer Tests. The native token AERE has a fixed supply of 2.8 billion set at genesis, with no new minting. Mainnet consensus signing remains classical ECDSA today; hybrid post-quantum consensus is under development and gated on an external audit. The live system has not yet completed a third-party audit. Everything AERE claims is designed to be checked by anyone.

Fact sheet

These figures match our about page and the current press release exactly. Where a number is a design ceiling rather than a measured rate, we say so.

Network

Public, EVM-compatible Layer 1 blockchain, Chain ID 2800; standard Ethereum JSON-RPC

Consensus

QBFT (Hyperledger Besu engine), seven Foundation-operated validators, quorum five of seven, tolerating two faulty nodes

Finality

About 0.5-second blocks, deterministic finality, no reorganizations on finalized blocks

Fees

A typical transfer costs a fraction of a cent

Token

AERE, fixed supply of 2.8 billion set at genesis, no new minting

Post-quantum

Five native NIST PQC precompiles live at the account and application layer, activated on mainnet at block 9,189,161 (July 12, 2026)

PQC schemes

Falcon-512, Falcon-1024, ML-DSA-44 (FIPS 204), SLH-DSA-128s (FIPS 205), SHAKE256 (FIPS 202); all pass the official NIST Known-Answer Tests

Throughput

Block parameters imply a design ceiling on the order of 273,000 TPS; a ceiling, not a measured live rate

Operator

AERE Foundation, non-profit-style steward of the protocol; leadership listed publicly

Verify

Block explorer, one-click network add, public research repository, and whitepaper

Honest caveats, stated in the same place as the capabilities

Mainnet consensus signing is classical ECDSA today. The post-quantum capability is at the account and application layer, not in consensus.
Hybrid post-quantum consensus is under development on isolated test networks and is gated on an external audit.
The 273,000 TPS figure is a design ceiling implied by block parameters, not a measured figure; today's realized throughput is far below it.
The validator set is seven Foundation-operated nodes; the decentralization path is published in the roadmap and whitepaper.
The live system has not yet completed a third-party audit. The published proofs and conformance tests are the project's own work, offered for anyone to re-run.

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Assets

Official AERE Network logo files, served directly from this site. These are the only official marks; please do not fabricate or alter them.

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Leadership and ownership

Team and leadership

AERE Network is founded and led by Liviu Hrenaru, Founder and CEO, with a distributed team of contributors working in the open.

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Foundation and funding

The AERE Foundation stewards the protocol and treasury on-chain. Ownership and funding are documented publicly, with no off-chain equity or private sale.

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Press contact

Press and media enquiries

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Operated by the AERE Foundation. We read press and media requests at this address and respond during European business hours. For interviews, background, or clarification on any published claim, include the page URL and the specific claim.

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