Staking & validator rewards
AERE runs Hyperledger Besu QBFT, deterministic 0.5s finality, no mining, no hash power, no proof-of-work. You earn by staking AERE or by operating a validator. Yield is variable and tracks chain activity; it is never a promised daily amount.
There is nothing to mine. AERE has no miners, no hashrate, and no proof-of-work. Participation is on-chain staking: deposit into the sAERE ERC-4626 vault for a liquid receipt, lock AERE for a fixed term in AereLockedStaking, or run a QBFT validator. Every surface below maps to a contract address you can call on chain 2800.
Most used
ERC-4626 receipt
sAERE liquid staking
Variable yieldMechanical accrual, no promised APY
- Deposit WAERE, receive a liquid sAERE receipt
- Rate rises as the AereSink routes protocol revenue in
- Monotonic rate, only flat or up
- No lock-up, redeem any time
- Immutable: no admin, no upgrade proxy
Open sAERE dashboard
Fixed-term locks
AereLockedStaking
10%, 30% APYBy lock term, set at deploy. Reward reserve unfunded: not payable today
- Reward reserve is empty: no yield can be paid today. The rates below are real on-chain constants, but the contract holds nothing to pay them with, so a lock made now returns principal only.
- 30-day lock, 10% APY
- 90-day lock, 15% APY
- 180-day lock, 22% APY
- 365-day lock, 30% APY
- Principal-only early exit · 1 AERE minimum
View lock terms
Run a node
QBFT validator
Validator rewardPer-block validator reward remainder after burn
- Besu QBFT validators secure the chain
- 37.5% of the validator reward burned; remainder to validator
- The burn takes a share of the validator coinbase reward, not gas fees and not the EIP-1559 base fee
- 9 Foundation validators today (f=2, quorum 6-of-9)
- Public path to 21
- No hash power, deterministic 0.5s finality
Validator policy
Economics sealed by code. 37.5% of the validator reward is burned, a Foundation-set rate hard-capped at 50%, into a sealed vault and owner-less AereSink flywheel with no admin, no proxy, and no withdrawal path. Fixed 2.8B supply, zero new minting. One operator runs all nine validators today and the admin keys sit with a single Foundation account; read the Foundation page before you call that trustless.
The AereSink, where staking yield comes from
Protocol revenue on chain 2800 flows through the immutable AereSink router, split three ways at fixed percentages set at deploy. There is no admin, no proxy, and no withdrawal path.
| Bucket | Split | What it does |
|---|
| BURN | 15% | Sent to 0x…dEaD, permanently removed from supply |
| BUYBACK-and-burn | 40% | Buys WAERE and burns it |
| STAKER-YIELD | 45% | Buys WAERE into the sAERE vault, lifting the conversion rate |
AereSink contract: 0x69581B86A48161b067Ff4E01544780625B231676. This 3-bucket split is separate from, and on top of, the 37.5% validator-reward burn routed into the sealed vault.
Yields are variable and depend on on-chain fee flow, staking participation, and network conditions. Fixed-term APYs for AereLockedStaking are contract parameters verifiable on chain 2800, not guarantees of future value. Nothing here is a promised daily payout. Crypto involves risk; review the Risk Factors and the sAERE classification memo before staking. Not financial advice.