aether-protocol v1.0.0 — stable documentation & brand release

aether-protocol v1.0.0 — stable documentation & brand release

Public commons + federated finality · account + UTXO · Poseidon/Groth16 shielded notes ·

Highlights

• Official logo shipped at docs/logo.svg and featured in the README
• Badge pack with docs, release, license, status, version, category, and pages badges
• Detailed notes for integrators and diligence readers (CHANGELOG, SUPPORT, SECURITY, CONTRIBUTING)
• GitHub Pages documentation surface at https://theworker02.github.io/aether-protocol/
• Stable tag v1.0.0 as the portfolio baseline for this product

What changed in this release

1. Ensured brand mark and README presentation meet portfolio standards.
2. Expanded badge strip with explanatory notes table.
3. Added or refreshed diligence documentation.
4. Published narrative release notes for the 1.0 documentation line.

Verification

• README shows the official logo.
• Badges resolve via shields.io.
• CHANGELOG.md records the 1.0.0 documentation milestone.
• This GitHub Release tag is v1.0.0.

Upgrade / checkout

git clone https://github.com/theworker02/aether-protocol.git
cd aether-protocol
git checkout v1.0.0

Subsequent feature tags may advance beyond 1.0.0; this release remains the documented stable baseline for brand and docs completeness.

Aether Protocol v1.3.0

Aether Protocol 1.3.0

Hybrid Layer-1 reference implementation: public/allowlist/mixed admission, dual account+UTXO ledger, Poseidon/Groth16 shielded notes, liquid staking, rollup settlement, multi-validator mesh, and acquisition-ready docs.

Status: Research / consortium pilots / diligence. Not audited for mainnet value.

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Highlights

Consensus & economics

• AetherBFT helpers, light headers, commit certificates
• Liquid staking: bond / delegate / undelegate / redelegate / withdraw + unbonding queue
• Evidence txs: EvidenceDoubleSign, EvidenceDowntime with slash, jail, tombstone
• Community pool (50% of slash) + capped CommunityPoolSpend
• Tip → proposer; base fee burned (EIP-1559-style)

Privacy & ZK

• Poseidon CRH for note commitments, nullifiers, Merkle parents (native + R1CS)
• Groth16 shield / transfer / unshield (BN254)
• Rollup schemes 0x01 Groth16 · 0x02 Plonk-lite · 0x03 fraud · gated 0xFF

Networking & sync

• Multi-validator TCP gossip mesh (--p2p-listen / --bootnodes)
• Peer scoring + automatic bans on invalid threshold
• Epoch snapshots + RPC: create / load / get / export
• Prometheus text metrics at GET /metrics

Bridges & VM

• IBC-lite: open / send / recv / ack channels
• Expanded AetherOps ISA (arith, bitwise, jumps, block context, RETURN)
• ContractCall transaction kind

Operator surface

• aether-node + aether CLI + Vite explorer
• TOML config + public/federated genesis profiles
• JSON-RPC: chain, staking, light headers, bridges, slash log, snapshots, version

IP & acquisition

• Apache-2.0 + NOTICE
• docs/IP.md, docs/PATENT_PLEDGE.md, docs/ACQUISITION.md

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Crates (crates.io)

Crate	Role
aether-types	Wire types & constants
aether-crypto	BLAKE3 / Ed25519 / Merkle
aether-zk	Poseidon + Groth16 + rollups
aether-consensus	AetherBFT
aether-p2p	Gossip mesh
aether-vm	AetherOps ISA
aether-state	Ledger & execution
aether-store	sled + snapshots
aether-rpc	JSON-RPC + metrics
aether-node	Validator binary
aether-cli	Operator CLI (aether)

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Quick start

git clone https://github.com/theworker02/aether-protocol.git
cd aether-protocol
cargo run -p aether-node -- --config config/node.toml --rpc 127.0.0.1:8545 --p2p-listen 127.0.0.1:9000

Docs: PROTOCOL · CHANGELOG · SECURITY

Full changelog

See CHANGELOG.md for 1.3.0 / 1.2.0 / 0.2 / 0.1 history.