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
0xA2125bE9C6fd4196D9F94757Df18B3a2A5e650b0
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Fixed-term locks

AereLockedStaking

10%, 30% APYBy lock term, set at deploy
  • 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
0x21108c28A849b05aE6b7a3a5bc435C9Bc897E7Ad
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Run a node

QBFT validator

Chain feesPer-block fee remainder after burn
  • Besu QBFT validators secure the chain
  • 37.5% of every fee burned; remainder to validator
  • 3 Foundation validators today
  • Public path to 7, then 21
  • No hash power, deterministic 0.5s finality
 
Validator policy
Economics sealed by code. A 37.5% base-fee burn with no admin, no proxy, and no withdrawal path. Fixed 2.8B supply, zero insider unlocks. The chain no one can rug.

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.

BucketSplitWhat it does
BURN15%Sent to 0x…dEaD, permanently removed from supply
BUYBACK-and-burn40%Buys WAERE and burns it
STAKER-YIELD45%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% base-fee burn applied to every transaction.

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.