First tagged release of the public AERE Network documentation set for chain ID 2800.
What is in this release
- WHITEPAPER.md: the full whitepaper v2.0, covering consensus, tokenomics and the immutable burn engine, governance, sAERE / AereProof / AERE402, roadmap, and risk disclosures.
- ARCHITECTURE.md: a high-level, honest map of the chain, account model, settlement and sink, compliance layer, zk and post-quantum stack, and cross-chain rails.
- ADDRESSES.md: the canonical deployed-contract registry on chain 2800 (100+ addresses grouped by domain), with a copy-paste
eth_getCodeverification example so you can confirm any address yourself. - llms.txt / llms-full.txt: concise and full machine-readable references for LLMs and agents.
Highlights documented here
- Hyperledger Besu QBFT with 0.5s deterministic finality and no re-orgs by construction.
- The world-first on-chain post-quantum verification suite: Falcon-512/1024, WOTS+, XMSS, SLH-DSA / SPHINCS+, ML-DSA-44 / Dilithium2, a hybrid ECDSA + Falcon-512 authorizer, and a Falcon-512 finality-attestation layer, each validated against official NIST vectors.
- The immutable economics: a sealed base-fee burn with no admin, no upgrade proxy, and no withdrawal path, and a fixed 2.8B AERE supply.
Honesty posture
The docs label plainly what is production, what is a testnet-benchmark ceiling (for example the 273,000 TPS figure), what is a research prototype, and what is a legal position rather than settled law. Validators are 3 Foundation nodes today with a public path to 7 then 21.
Documentation is licensed CC-BY-4.0.