NFTs & Digital Culture
The NFT infrastructure on AERE is live, not planned. AereNFT and an on-chain marketplace are deployed on mainnet. Mint a collection today without waiting for infrastructure to catch up.
AereNFT implements ERC-721 with EIP-2981 royalty support. The marketplace contract is deployed and operational on AERE mainnet. Royalty percentages and recipient addresses are set at collection deployment and enforced at the contract level on every secondary sale through the marketplace, no trusted off-chain enforcement required.
Why AERE for NFTs
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Minting costs that do not deter creators
On congested high-fee chains, minting a collection of any meaningful size requires either absorbing significant upfront costs as a creator or passing fees to collectors as a barrier to entry. On AERE, minting a single token or an entire collection costs a fraction of a cent per transaction. This changes the economics for independent artists, small studios, and community projects, the cost to experiment and launch is essentially zero, and the cost to airdrop to a community is not a budget line that requires planning. Creating and distributing digital work should not require a financial cushion. On AERE, it does not.
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On-chain royalties that actually enforce
EIP-2981 is the royalty standard that embeds creator payment terms into the NFT contract itself. When a token sells through the AERE marketplace, the royalty split is computed and distributed at the contract level, no marketplace policy, no off-chain agreement, no trust in the platform operator. The royalty percentage and the recipient address are set when the collection is deployed and cannot be overridden by the marketplace contract. For creators building a sustainable income from secondary sales, contract-level enforcement is the only kind that reliably works.
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Speed and composability for dynamic NFTs
NFTs that evolve, game items that gain attributes, art pieces that change over time, collectibles with on-chain provenance trails, require a chain where updating metadata or recording interactions is fast and affordable. AERE's approximately one-second finality and negligible update costs make on-chain NFT state changes practical. Combined with full EVM composability, AERE NFTs can interact with DeFi protocols (collateralise your NFT for a loan), gaming contracts (use your NFT as a character in a game), and identity systems (attach an AereIdentity attestation to a soulbound token). The ecosystem is a single shared state space.
For creators and collectors
Artists, musicians, photographers, and digital creators can deploy a collection on AERE using the AereNFT contract directly or through any ERC-721-compatible deployment tool. The block explorer provides a public view of every collection, transfer, and sale event, a permanent, tamper-proof provenance record for every piece. Collectors can hold and trade AERE NFTs using any EVM-compatible wallet with AERE Network added.
The AERE grants program funds cultural and creative projects as well as technical ones. NFT collections that build community or demonstrate novel use of the chain's composability features are eligible for quick-build grants. The application is public and the process is transparent.
Start building
Add AERE to your wallet: Chain ID 2800, RPC https://rpc.aere.network, native token AERE. The documentation covers the AereNFT contract address, deployment parameters, royalty configuration, and how to list a collection on the marketplace.