A public, verifiable, EVM-compatible Layer 1 blockchain, built to outlast today's cryptography.
Aere Network is a public Layer 1 blockchain (Chain ID 2800) that runs the Ethereum Virtual Machine and is designed to be checked rather than trusted. It produces a block every half second with deterministic finality, charges a fraction of a cent for a typical transfer, and offers native, protocol-level verification of NIST-standardized post-quantum signatures at the account and application layer, live on mainnet.
Aere is a standalone Layer 1, not a rollup or a sidechain. It uses the QBFT consensus engine from Hyperledger Besu, exposes a standard Ethereum JSON-RPC API, and runs Solidity and Vyper contracts unchanged. Any tool that works against Ethereum, MetaMask, Hardhat, Foundry, ethers.js, viem, works against Aere with a chain-ID change.
The network's defining feature is quantum readiness at the account layer: five native precompiles covering Falcon-512, Falcon-1024, ML-DSA-44 (FIPS 204), SLH-DSA-128s (FIPS 205), and SHAKE256 (FIPS 202) activated on mainnet on July 12, 2026 at block 9,189,161, and all five pass the official NIST Known-Answer Tests. Mainnet consensus is hybrid in a precise and limited sense: since 2026-08-14 every 128th block (every 32nd block until block 17,225,968, on 2026-09-05) on chain 2800 (an anchor block) does not finalize without a certificate of at least three valid Falcon-512 validator seals (f+1 of nine) (raised at block 14,961,456, August 21, 2026, to six seals, which was then a full 2f+1 quorum of nine; ten validators since 2026-09-11, so six is above f+1 and below the quorum of seven) bound under its block hash; classical secp256k1 ECDSA QBFT finalizes every block. An external audit of the post-quantum anchor layer is still ahead. (Correction 2026-08-19: the earlier statement that from block 14,050,000 every block required a six-of-nine post-quantum quorum to finalize is withdrawn; the per-block rule armed at that height is retired in the shipped code in favour of the anchor rules and changed no enforcement.)
Chain ID
2800 (public EVM Layer 1)
Consensus
QBFT, ten Foundation-operated validators, deterministic finality (quorum seven of ten)
Block time
0.5 seconds, no reorganizations on finalized blocks
Token
AERE, fixed supply of 2.8 billion set at genesis, no new minting
Post-quantum
Native NIST PQC verification live at the account layer on mainnet
Throughput
The previously published 273,000 TPS design ceiling has been withdrawn: its stated derivation does not reach that number, and no such rate has ever been measured on the live chain
Aere Network is operated by the Aere Foundation, which stewards the protocol, maintains the open-source codebase, funds builders through a public grants program, and supports on-chain governance. The Foundation operates the validator set today and publishes the decentralization path in the project roadmap and whitepaper. The protocol is built by a distributed group of protocol engineers, infrastructure operators and open-source contributors working in the open: the consensus patches, the node package, the anchor corpus and the verification tools are published as they are written, and every performance figure on this site carries the command that reproduces it. The network has not yet completed a third-party audit; the proofs and conformance tests published by the project are its own work, offered for anyone to re-run.
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