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.
Sub-second finality (about 0.62 seconds), fees paid in AERE at a 1 gwei base fee, 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: founder statement
Statement From the Founder of Aere Network: We Did Not Wait for the Quantum Computer
Monaco, October 2, 2026. Liviu Hrenaru, founder of Aere Network, on why a live public chain moved its validators, its consensus messages and its transactions onto post-quantum cryptography in 2026, stage by stage and by block number; what is live, what is not yet, and why every claim comes with the tool to check it.
Read the statement Visit the newsroomPrevious releases: From a Layer 1 to cryptographic infrastructure: the direction and the open-source post-quantum stack (October 2, 2026) · The post-quantum validator stack completed on mainnet: identities, finality and native transactions (October 2, 2026) · Aere Cloud launched, commercial infrastructure with chain-native post-quantum verification (August 23, 2026) · Hybrid post-quantum consensus on mainnet (August 15, 2026, with dated correction) · Native NIST post-quantum signature verification live on mainnet (Seychelles, July 18, 2026)
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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.
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.
Aere Network is a public, EVM-compatible Layer 1 blockchain (Chain ID 2800) operated by the Aere Foundation. It produces a block about every 0.62 seconds (0.5-second target) with deterministic finality, charges 0.000021 AERE for a plain transfer at the 1 gwei base fee, and offers native, protocol-level verification of NIST-standardized post-quantum signatures at the account layer, live on mainnet.
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 two independently built clients (Besu-derived and Nethermind-derived), producing a block about every 0.62 seconds against a 0.5-second target, with deterministic finality and no reorganizations on finalized blocks; fees are paid in AERE at a base fee of 1 gwei. 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. Per-block finality rests on classical ECDSA; every validator refuses a commit without a post-quantum seal, and a certificate of those seals sits under every 32nd block’s hash. 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), ten Foundation-operated validators, quorum seven of ten, tolerating three faulty nodes
Finality
About 0.5-second blocks, deterministic finality, no reorganizations on finalized blocks
Fees
A plain transfer costs 0.000021 AERE (21,000 gas at the 1 gwei base fee); AERE has no market price yet
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
The 273,000 TPS design ceiling has been withdrawn (2026-09-05); measured throughput is published with its date on /benchmarks
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
- Per-block finality on mainnet rests on classical ECDSA today. Every validator refuses a commit without a post-quantum seal, nine of the ten refuse any consensus message without one (the tenth runs an independent second client, which applies that to proposal, prepare and round-change messages from AIP-22 stage 4, whose height is not yet set on chain 2800), a certificate of those seals sits under every anchor block's hash, and post-quantum signatures are available at the account and application layer through the precompiles. (Corrected 2026-10-09: until that date this line said the seals are required on every consensus message, without the second client's exception, and that they are required at the account and application layer, where post-quantum signatures are available to accounts and contracts that choose them.)
- AIP-22 stages 4 and 5, which count a consensus message only by its post-quantum seal and take the ECDSA commit quorum out of the header, were proven on the public testnet 28001 on 2026-09-23; their heights are not yet set on chain 2800, and post-quantum finality for every block needs the post-quantum commit seal to bind the consensus round first. The hybrid layers in the line above are live. (Corrected 2026-10-09: until that date this line said that hybrid post-quantum consensus is under development on isolated test networks and is gated on an external audit; the audit status is the last line of this list.)
- The 273,000 TPS figure has been withdrawn (2026-09-05): its stated derivation does not reach that number, and no such rate has ever been measured on the live chain.
- The validator set is Foundation-operated (10 as read from the chain at 2026-10-16 15:30 UTC); 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.
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 protocol engineers and open-source contributors working in the open under the AERE Foundation.
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.
Press contact
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.
Aere Network is a technology project. Nothing on this site is investment advice or a solicitation to buy or sell any asset.