The people and contributors building AERE Network, a permissionless, EVM-compatible Layer 1 designed for performance at scale.
Liviu Hrenaru founded AERE Network with a single conviction: that the next generation of decentralised applications deserves infrastructure that is genuinely fast, honest about its capabilities, and built to last. His vision is an EVM-compatible Layer 1 that gives developers the full Ethereum tooling experience, MetaMask, Hardhat, ethers.js, Solidity, without the congestion and unpredictable fees that have held the ecosystem back. Under his direction, AERE Network launched its mainnet on Hyperledger Besu with QBFT consensus, achieving sub-second finality and a throughput target of up to 273,000 transactions per second, while maintaining complete EVM compatibility at Chain ID 2800. Liviu drives the network's product direction, ecosystem strategy, and the long-term mission of making on-chain interaction accessible, transparent, and economically viable for builders and end users alike.
Beyond the founder, AERE Network is developed and maintained by a distributed team of blockchain engineers, infrastructure specialists, and open-source contributors. The team spans protocol engineering, smart-contract development, DevOps and validator operations, and ecosystem support. Contributors work across time zones, collaborating in the open on git.aere.network. Individual contributor profiles and commit histories are visible in the public repositories.
Make fast, honest, EVM-compatible infrastructure available to every builder.
AERE Network exists to close the gap between what the Ethereum developer ecosystem expects and what production infrastructure can actually deliver. We build in public, document our real capabilities, and never inflate numbers we cannot demonstrate on-chain.
The long-term goal is a self-sustaining ecosystem, governed by its participants via the AERE DAO, funded through the Foundation treasury, and open to anyone who wants to build something real.
All protocol decisions, grant disbursements, and governance votes are recorded on-chain or in public Gitea issues. Nothing happens behind closed doors.
We build for real-world throughput, not benchmark conditions. QBFT consensus gives instant finality with no risk of reorgs on any honest transaction.
Developer experience is a first-class concern. If a standard Ethereum tool does not work on AERE without modification, that is a bug we fix, not a trade-off we accept.
We are always interested in engineers, researchers, and ecosystem builders who want to work on live blockchain infrastructure. Open a conversation on Gitea or reach out through the community channels.
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