Quantum-Safe Settlement

Every signature securing a public blockchain today rests on elliptic-curve cryptography, and NIST has already scheduled its retirement: classical 112-bit schemes are deprecated after 2030 and disallowed after 2035 (NIST IR 8547). For a settlement ledger the danger is not tomorrow's traffic but yesterday's record: a ledger publishes its public keys and signatures forever, so an adversary who later recovers old keys can sign new statements about old history. Regulators have begun asking institutions for migration plans now, not at the deadline.

What Aere Network settles differently

Chain 2800 is a public EVM Layer‑1 with half-second deterministic finality whose block record carries post-quantum evidence bound under the block hash itself. Since block 13,014,000, every 32nd block header embeds a certificate of Falcon‑512 signatures from the validator set over the parent block, and a 32-byte digest of that certificate sits inside the hashed part of the header. Strip or alter the certificate and the block hash no longer verifies. Since 2026‑08‑14 every node enforces a minimum of three seals per anchor block.

Five post-quantum verifiers (Falcon‑512, Falcon‑1024, ML‑DSA‑44, SLH‑DSA‑128s, SHAKE256) run as native precompiles, live since block 9,189,161 and validated against NIST test vectors, so accounts and applications can bind authorization to post-quantum keys today, with no protocol change.

Do not take our word for any of this

The claim above is checkable by anyone, against a public endpoint, in under a minute. The verifier below recomputes the binding digest independently, from raw RLP, and refuses politely when it does not match. It has a proven red path: pointed at pre-enforcement history it fails on thin certificates, and with a tampered domain string it fails on every digest.

Working with us

We work with institutions that need to show a quantum-safe settlement story to a regulator, an auditor, or a board. An engagement starts with verification, not slides: your team runs the verifier against our chain, then we map your settlement flows onto post-quantum authorization together. The chain is EVM at Ethereum parity, so existing tooling, wallets and audits carry over.

Honest boundaries, stated up front: consensus signatures on chain 2800 are classical ECDSA today, with the blocking post-quantum mode armed behind a coordinated activation height; the validator set is Foundation-operated while the independent-operator program is built; and no external security audit has been completed yet. Each of these is on the public roadmap with its date, and this page will state each change only after the chain itself shows it.