{
  "_comment": "GENERATED by scripts/generate-whitepaper-figures.mjs. Do not hand-edit. Every figure carries the block height it was read at and its provenance: MEASURED (read from chain this run), SPEC (design or genesis constant, not RPC-readable), ESTIMATE (derived with stated assumptions).",
  "generatedAt": "2026-07-20T11:06:13.661Z",
  "rpc": "https://rpc.aere.network",
  "anchorBlock": 10594472,
  "anchorBlockTimeUtc": "2026-07-20 11:06:16 UTC",
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    "publishedDate": "2026-07-20",
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    "versionChangedThisRun": false,
    "reason": "editorial content unchanged, so the version did NOT move even though figures were refreshed",
    "rule": "The version changes only when the content changes. It is not a date stamp and must never be incremented on a schedule. A number that moves every day whether or not anything was written tells a reader nothing; a number that moves only on substance, and can be checked by hashing the document, tells them everything.",
    "verifyCommand": "curl -sL https://aere.network/whitepaper | sed '/<!--WP-VERSION-BLOCK-START-->/,/<!--WP-VERSION-BLOCK-END-->/d' | tr -d '\\r' | sha256sum"
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      "note": "Anchor height. Every MEASURED figure below was read at this block."
    },
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      "provenance": "MEASURED",
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      "note": null
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      "note": null
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      "unit": "ms",
      "note": "Long-run mean over blocks 10574472 to 10594472. This is the ACTUAL observed interval. The configured target is 500 ms; the measured mean runs slightly above it, and this figure reports what happened rather than what was configured."
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      "unit": "s",
      "note": null
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      "unit": "ms",
      "note": "The configured target. Compare against the measured mean above, which is the figure that reflects reality."
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      "unit": "Gwei",
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      "unit": null,
      "note": "Consensus is CLASSICAL secp256k1 ECDSA QBFT. This is the active validator set, not a PQC set."
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      "method": "floor((n-1)/3) over the measured validator set",
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      "note": null
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      "method": "off-chain operator attribution: all validators are Foundation-operated",
      "atBlock": null,
      "unit": null,
      "note": "The chain can prove there are seven distinct validator addresses. It cannot prove independent operation. All seven are Foundation-operated, so the effective Nakamoto coefficient is 1."
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      "note": null
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      "note": "Percent of the VALIDATOR COINBASE reward that is burned. This is not a base-fee burn."
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      "unit": "%",
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      "note": "The splitters' cumulative counters sum exactly to the vault balance."
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      "atBlock": 10594472,
      "unit": "AERE",
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      "unit": null,
      "note": "Lifetime burn is a rounding error against a 2.8 billion supply and validator coinbase revenue is effectively zero. AERE is NOT deflationary today."
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      "unit": "%",
      "note": null
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      "unit": "%",
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      "provenance": "MEASURED",
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      "note": null
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      "atBlock": 10594472,
      "unit": null,
      "note": "Truncated for display; the full hash is in the raw field."
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      "note": null
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      "atBlock": 10594472,
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      "note": null
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      "unit": null,
      "note": "Truncated for display; the full hash is in the raw field."
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      "method": "eth_getCode confirms deployed bytecode at this address",
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      "unit": null,
      "note": null
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      "atBlock": 10594472,
      "unit": "bytes",
      "note": null
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      "atBlock": 10594472,
      "unit": null,
      "note": "Truncated for display; the full hash is in the raw field."
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      "method": "eth_getCode confirms deployed bytecode at this address",
      "atBlock": 10594472,
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      "note": null
    },
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      "provenance": "MEASURED",
      "method": "eth_getCode",
      "atBlock": 10594472,
      "unit": "bytes",
      "note": null
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      "provenance": "MEASURED",
      "method": "sha256 of the deployed bytecode returned by eth_getCode",
      "atBlock": 10594472,
      "unit": null,
      "note": "Truncated for display; the full hash is in the raw field."
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      "method": "eth_estimateGas to 0x000000000000000000000000000000000000BEEF, an address with no code",
      "atBlock": 10594472,
      "unit": "gas",
      "note": "Baseline intrinsic cost. Any address charging more than this ran code."
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      "method": "eth_estimateGas differential against the 23897 gas control",
      "atBlock": 10594472,
      "unit": null,
      "note": "Falcon-512 verify. Charged 62853 gas versus a 23897 gas control."
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      "atBlock": 10594472,
      "unit": "gas",
      "note": null
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      "method": "eth_estimateGas differential against the 23897 gas control",
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      "unit": null,
      "note": "Falcon-1024 verify. Charged 97992 gas versus a 23897 gas control."
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      "note": null
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      "method": "eth_estimateGas differential against the 23897 gas control",
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      "note": "ML-DSA-44 verify. Charged 77913 gas versus a 23897 gas control."
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      "atBlock": 10594472,
      "unit": "gas",
      "note": null
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      "method": "eth_estimateGas differential against the 23897 gas control",
      "atBlock": 10594472,
      "unit": null,
      "note": "SLH-DSA-128s verify. Charged 376144 gas versus a 23897 gas control."
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      "provenance": "MEASURED",
      "method": "eth_estimateGas",
      "atBlock": 10594472,
      "unit": "gas",
      "note": null
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      "method": "eth_estimateGas differential against the 23897 gas control",
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      "unit": null,
      "note": "SHAKE256. Charged 47055 gas versus a 23897 gas control."
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      "provenance": "MEASURED",
      "method": "eth_estimateGas",
      "atBlock": 10594472,
      "unit": "gas",
      "note": null
    },
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      "provenance": "MEASURED",
      "method": "eth_estimateGas differential against the 23897 gas control",
      "atBlock": 10594472,
      "unit": null,
      "note": "ML-KEM-768. Charged 23897 gas versus a 23897 gas control."
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      "method": "eth_estimateGas",
      "atBlock": 10594472,
      "unit": "gas",
      "note": null
    },
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      "provenance": "MEASURED",
      "method": "eth_estimateGas differential against the 23897 gas control",
      "atBlock": 10594472,
      "unit": null,
      "note": "Falcon HashToPoint. Charged 23897 gas versus a 23897 gas control."
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    "precompile.0x0AE7.gas": {
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      "method": "eth_estimateGas",
      "atBlock": 10594472,
      "unit": "gas",
      "note": null
    },
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        "0x0AE2",
        "0x0AE3",
        "0x0AE4",
        "0x0AE5"
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      "provenance": "MEASURED",
      "method": "gas-differential probe across the declared precompile range",
      "atBlock": 10594472,
      "unit": null,
      "note": "Mainnet-live: 0x0AE1, 0x0AE2, 0x0AE3, 0x0AE4, 0x0AE5. Verified NOT on mainnet (testnet-only): 0x0AE6, 0x0AE7."
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      "value": "0x0AE1, 0x0AE2, 0x0AE3, 0x0AE4, 0x0AE5",
      "raw": [
        "0x0AE1",
        "0x0AE2",
        "0x0AE3",
        "0x0AE4",
        "0x0AE5"
      ],
      "provenance": "MEASURED",
      "method": "gas-differential probe",
      "atBlock": 10594472,
      "unit": null,
      "note": null
    },
    "precompiles.testnetOnlyList": {
      "value": "0x0AE6, 0x0AE7",
      "raw": [
        "0x0AE6",
        "0x0AE7"
      ],
      "provenance": "MEASURED",
      "method": "gas-differential probe proving absence from mainnet",
      "atBlock": 10594472,
      "unit": null,
      "note": null
    },
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      "raw": 2800000000,
      "provenance": "SPEC",
      "method": "genesis allocation; a native coin total supply is not exposed by any JSON-RPC method",
      "atBlock": null,
      "unit": "AERE",
      "note": "Fixed at genesis. No inflation. Not measurable by RPC, so it is labelled SPEC rather than dressed up as a reading."
    },
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      "raw": 273000,
      "provenance": "SPEC",
      "method": "architectural ceiling derived from block gas limit and block interval",
      "atBlock": null,
      "unit": "TPS",
      "note": "This is a DESIGN CEILING, not a measured mainnet throughput. It must never be presented as an observed rate."
    },
    "pqc.activationBlock": {
      "value": "9,189,161",
      "raw": 9189161,
      "provenance": "SPEC",
      "method": "fork activation height from the node's genesis/fork configuration",
      "atBlock": null,
      "unit": null,
      "note": "Height at which the PQC precompiles activated on mainnet. Fork config is not exposed by RPC, so this is SPEC; that the precompiles ARE live is separately MEASURED above."
    },
    "consensus.algorithm": {
      "value": "QBFT (classical secp256k1 ECDSA)",
      "raw": "qbft-ecdsa",
      "provenance": "SPEC",
      "method": "node consensus configuration",
      "atBlock": null,
      "unit": null,
      "note": "Consensus is CLASSICAL. Post-quantum cryptography on this chain is at the account and application layer via the precompiles above. There is no post-quantum consensus."
    }
  }
}