AERE Academy

Reality check, added 2026-08-19. This course teaches the design. On chain 2800 today: no staking yield is payable (the staking contracts hold no reward balance, so the 8% figure is a parameter, not an income); the governance contracts (AereGovLockV2, AereGovernorV2) are deployed but own no protocol contract yet, so a vote cannot change fees, validators or funds and is advisory; there is no on-chain vesting contract (team, investor and Foundation allocations sit in plain accounts); and an unmodified upstream Hyperledger Besu cannot follow chain 2800, the node software is the aere-node fork with its published patches (post-quantum precompiles since block 9,189,161, the base-fee floor, the header anchor). Ten Foundation-run validators, commit quorum 7 of 10, blocks every ~0.62 s.

Free, self-paced learning for builders and users of AERE Network.

AERE Academy is an open curriculum, no sign-up, no cost, no certification fees. Every course is written by the AERE core team and covers real production patterns on chain ID 2800. Whether you are configuring your first wallet, shipping a smart contract, running a validator node, or researching the economics behind the AERE token, you will find a course that takes you from zero to working.

Courses

Beginner

AERE Network Fundamentals

~1 hour  ·  5 modules

What a blockchain is, how AERE works as an EVM Layer 1, QBFT consensus and instant finality on the validators, the AERE token, chain ID 2800, and how to add AERE to MetaMask.

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Beginner

Deploy Your First Smart Contract

~2 hours  ·  6 modules

Solidity basics, using Remix IDE, connecting MetaMask to AERE, writing and deploying a simple storage contract and an ERC-20 token, then verifying it on the block explorer.

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Intermediate

Run an AERE Validator

~2 hours  ·  5 modules

What validators do in QBFT, hardware and OS requirements, running a Hyperledger Besu node connected to AERE mainnet, the AereStaking delegated-staking model, and monitoring your node.

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Intermediate

AERE Tokenomics & Governance

~1.5 hours  ·  4 modules

The 2.8 billion max supply, the six allocation wallets, the staking design (an 8% APY parameter that pays nothing today), and how stake-weighted DAO governance works in practice on AERE Network.

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Corrections and additions to this course are welcome as an issue on aere-docs.