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Aere Network is trust infrastructure for the post-quantum and AI era (definition dated 2026-10-18); the network under its four product lines, chain 2800, is a public, EVM-compatible blockchain with native NIST post-quantum signature verification live at the account layer on mainnet.

Aere Network is trust infrastructure for the post-quantum and AI era: identity, proof and cryptographic migration that anyone can verify offline, in four product lines (Shield, Agents, Identity, Proof), on a public, EVM-compatible network (chain 2800) operated by the Aere Foundation. It produces a block about every 0.62 seconds (0.5-second target) with deterministic finality, charges 0.000021 AERE for a plain transfer at the 1 gwei base fee, and offers native, protocol-level verification of NIST-standardized post-quantum signatures at the account layer, live on mainnet.

Aere Network is trust infrastructure for the post-quantum and AI era (definition dated 2026-10-18), built on a public, EVM-compatible settlement network (chain 2800) operated by the Aere Foundation and built to outlast today's cryptography. It runs the Ethereum Virtual Machine with QBFT consensus on two independently built clients (Besu-derived and Nethermind-derived), producing a block about every 0.62 seconds against a 0.5-second target, with deterministic finality and no reorganizations on finalized blocks; fees are paid in AERE at a base fee of 1 gwei. Its defining feature is quantum readiness at the account layer: five native precompiles for NIST-standardized post-quantum signatures, activated on mainnet on July 12, 2026 at block 9,189,161, all passing the official NIST Known-Answer Tests. The native token AERE has a fixed supply of 2.8 billion set at genesis, with no new minting. Per-block finality rests, for a validator, since block 24,300,000 (AIP-22 stage 4), on votes that every validator attributes only through their verified post-quantum seals (since block 25,080,000, AIP-22 stage 5, headers no longer carry ECDSA commit seals and are admitted on the Falcon-512 seal of their proposer alone; a commit still carries the ECDSA commit seal of its validator as an additional check), and a block is post-quantum final once the next anchor, at most 32 blocks later, carries the certificate that covers it; every validator refuses a commit without a post-quantum seal, and a certificate of those seals sits under every 32nd block’s hash. The live system has not yet completed a third-party audit. Everything Aere claims is designed to be checked by anyone.