Institutions & Real-World Assets
Tokenising real-world assets requires more than a fast chain. It requires a compliance-friendly architecture that institutions can actually use, on-chain identity attestations, EVM composability, and a settlement layer with predictable costs and near-instant finality.
AereIdentity is a live on-chain attestation system deployed on AERE mainnet. It allows accredited verifiers to write KYC, accreditation, and jurisdiction flags to an address without exposing underlying personal data on-chain. Smart contracts can read these attestations at execution time to enforce access control, no off-chain oracle call required.
Why AERE for institutions and RWA
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On-chain KYC and accreditation via AereIdentity
Regulated asset tokenisation requires that only verified participants can hold or transact certain tokens. AereIdentity enables this at the smart contract level. A verifier, a licensed KYC provider or the issuer's own compliance infrastructure, writes an attestation to an address: this wallet has passed KYC, or this wallet is an accredited investor in jurisdiction X. The token contract reads that attestation on every transfer and reverts if the recipient lacks the required flag. The personal data never touches the chain; only a boolean or a jurisdiction code does. This is a deployed, functioning system on AERE mainnet today.
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Tokenisation on an EVM-compatible chain
Real-world asset tokenisation projects, covering debt instruments, real estate fractional ownership, fund shares, or commodity receipts, are primarily built in Solidity and target EVM chains because the tooling, auditing ecosystem, and institutional familiarity already exist there. AERE is fully EVM-compatible: every standard token framework (ERC-20, ERC-3643, ERC-1400 patterns) deploys without modification. The compliance logic that financial institutions require can be encoded directly in the token contract using the same patterns their legal and technical teams already review.
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Settlement finality and cost that scale with volume
Institutional settlement workflows, secondary market trades, coupon distributions, redemption events, involve high transaction counts at precise timing. AERE's approximately one-second finality means settlement events execute and confirm in near real time rather than accumulating pending across slow block windows. Fees are stable and small, so cost models for high-volume settlement legs do not require buffering for fee spikes. The public RPC endpoint and WebSocket feed allow institutional back-office systems to subscribe to on-chain events in real time without requiring a dedicated node.
Architecture overview for RWA issuers
A typical RWA deployment on AERE combines three layers: a permissioned token contract (ERC-20 or partition-based) that enforces transfer restrictions via AereIdentity reads, an issuance and redemption module that controls minting and burning against off-chain custodian confirmation, and a distribution contract that handles on-chain coupon or dividend payments to verified holders. All three layers are composable with existing AERE infrastructure, the oracle for on-chain pricing, the DAO module for governance of token parameters, and the block explorer for public auditability of the cap table.
The AERE Foundation is open to discussing institutional pilot programmes. Strategic grants of up to $100k are available for RWA infrastructure that benefits the broader ecosystem, with DAO oversight and public milestones.
Start building
Chain ID 2800, RPC https://rpc.aere.network, WebSocket wss://wss.aere.network. The documentation covers AereIdentity contract addresses, the attestation write API for verifiers, and example permissioned token contracts.