Tokenization with receipts that outlive the cryptography
A tokenized asset is worth exactly what its proof is worth. On chain 2800, the record lives under a consensus that will not finalize a block without post-quantum signatures, so the registry stays verifiable for the life of the asset, not the life of a key.
A tokenized bond matures in thirty years. A property title changes hands once a decade. A fund share must remain provable to a supervisor for as long as the fund exists. When a real-world asset moves on chain, the token inherits the lifetime of the asset, and the whole construction rests on one thing: that the record of who holds what, and the documents that say why, can still be verified at maturity, not only at issuance.
Assets live for thirty years. ECDSA does not.
For the classical elliptic-curve signatures that secure most public ledgers, NIST's post-quantum migration guidance (IR 8547, initial public draft 2024) schedules deprecation after 2030 and disallowance after 2035, sooner than the maturity of many assets being tokenized onto them. Once that cryptography falls, an adversary who recovers old validator keys could, in principle, re-sign an alternative history. At that point a registry you meant to hold for decades stops being a proof and becomes an argument. For a payment this is tomorrow's problem. For a thirty-year asset it is a design flaw, present at issuance.
What the ledger underneath provides
Chain 2800 is a public EVM Layer 1 with deterministic finality: a block is final when a quorum of six of nine validators signs it, and the QBFT consensus produces no reorganizations by design. Blocks arrive about every half second, 0.53 seconds as measured today. For an asset registry this means a transfer is settled when it is included, and it stays settled.
Since block 14,050,000, consensus is hybrid: no block finalizes without a quorum of Falcon-512 post-quantum validator signatures, with classical ECDSA retained alongside. Before that, since block 13,014,000, every 32nd header has carried a certificate of validator Falcon seals bound under the block hash itself, with a minimum of three seals enforced since 2026-08-14. The record your asset lives in is not waiting for a migration; the post-quantum evidence is already in the blocks. The full layer-by-layer picture is on the quantum stack page.
The same durability is available at the account and contract level. Five NIST post-quantum verifier precompiles have been live since block 9,189,161: Falcon-512, Falcon-1024, ML-DSA-44, SLH-DSA-128s and SHAKE256, each validated against the official NIST vectors. A transfer-agent contract or an issuer workflow can require a post-quantum signature on its own operations, on chain, today. Everything else is standard EVM at Pectra and Fusaka parity, so MetaMask, ethers, and hardhat or foundry work unchanged, and the native token AERE has a fixed supply of 2.8 billion set at genesis, with no new minting.
Notarization and attestation, the other half of an asset
A real-world asset is never just a token. It is a prospectus, a valuation report, a custody attestation, an insurance certificate: a document trail that has to remain provably unaltered for as long as the asset exists. Our post-quantum notarization anchors a document's hash on chain 2800 without the file ever leaving your hands, and the timestamp inherits the durability of the ledger itself. The mechanism is not a promise: this network's own whitepaper re-anchors its content hash on a fresh block four times a day, publicly verifiable right now.
Honest boundaries
All nine validators are operated by the Foundation today. The chain is not yet decentralized and we do not describe it that way; an independent-operator program is being built. No third-party security audit has been completed yet; one is on the roadmap. Our performance claim is deterministic sub-second finality, and we do not publish throughput figures. And this page describes what the chain can do and how we would engage alongside you: it is not a deployed retail product, and we do not offer card programs, banking, or custody as our product. We would rather you learn the limits from us than from a hostile reader.
Ways to work with us
The path for regulated issuers is the quantum-safe tokenization pilot, described alongside our other engagements on the regulated finance page: your asset, tokenized, with post-quantum evidence in the block record, not only at the application layer. It starts the way every engagement with us starts, with verification instead of slides. Your team runs the public toolkit against the live chain, checks our claims yourself, and receives a reproducible conformance report of the kind you can generate with the same tools. Then, and only then, we map your asset and its document trail onto the ledger together. Builders can start on the developer hub today.
Verify the record yourself
npm install @noble/hashes curl -O https://aere.network/tools/verify-anchor.mjs node verify-anchor.mjs # recomputes the post-quantum binding digest of recent # anchor blocks from raw bytes, independently of us. # the full toolkit, 35 checks against the public chain: # precompiles vs NIST vectors, block interval, validator set. curl -O https://aere.network/tools/verifica-lantul.tar.gz tar -xzf verifica-lantul.tar.gz && cd verifica-lantul node verifica.mjs