The short answer
Aeredium is universal settlement infrastructure: the layer that connects blockchains, banks, stablecoins, real-world assets, and institutional capital in a single attested environment. Not another general-purpose L1. Not a bridge. Not a scaling solution bolted onto Ethereum. Something structurally different: a purpose-built trust layer for the kind of financial infrastructure that actually handles institutional-scale value.
The architecture combines three things that are rarely found together. First, multi-cloud TEE validation: every transaction executes inside hardware-secured enclaves on AWS, Azure, and GCP simultaneously. No human validator can interfere or front-run. Second, protocol-level AES-256-GCM encryption across a five-layer privacy architecture, providing verifiable confidentiality without trusted setup. Third, intended 10-chain interoperability without bridges or wrapped tokens, using Kima Network's TSS-based settlement layer as it is migrated into the Aeredium execution environment.
AERX is the fuel for metered on-chain activity: fixed at 1 billion tokens with zero inflation. The chain is processing transactions on testnet. Mainnet now has an August 1 objective, while exchange listing remains a later, separate milestone.
How this guide is sourced
Everything in this guide is drawn from primary sources first. Architecture claims trace to white paper v3.7 (May 2026). Tokenomics are documented in tokenomics v3.9 (April 2026). AMA statements are attributed separately. Blog posts and press releases from the official Aeredium blog are cited inline. Third-party coverage is labeled as coverage, not primary proof. Where a claim needs independent verification before it can be treated as confirmed, this guide says so. See the editorial policy for the full labeling system.
Aeredium at a glance
What's confirmed, what's architecture, what's upcoming
Everything in this guide is labeled by source. Here is the top-level summary. The full claim register is in the source library.
The trust layer positioning
The official Aeredium site and white paper v3.7 describe the project as infrastructure for stablecoins, RWA, institutional trading, cross-chain settlement, Bitcoin scaling, and DeFi. Consistent across every official source.
RWA payment-infrastructure sandbox coverage
On July 7, CCN reported AEREDIUM's participation with Lava Foundation and Bretagne Holding Limited in the Lava Tokenization Sandbox. In the July 9 AMA, Eitan described the wider Caribbean real-estate initiative at $5.4B, while explicitly saying only an unspecified portion may be tokenized. The sandbox is just starting and has no published timeline. The figure is not Aeredium TVL, revenue, or committed transaction volume.
AERX tokenomics: 1B hard cap, 0% inflation, 100M TGE float
Tokenomics v3.9 is explicit: 1,000,000,000 AERX maximum and floor supply, 0% inflation, no additional issuance, 100,000,000 AERX at TGE (10.00%). These numbers are fixed by design.
Testnet is live and publicly verifiable
Blocks, transactions, and addresses are visible right now at explorer.aeredium.io via Blockscout. This is a real chain processing real data, not a staging environment or a demo.
Multi-cloud TEE validation, AES-256-GCM privacy, 250,000 TPS described testnet
White paper v3.7 describes TEE-BFT consensus inside AWS/Azure/GCP enclaves, AES-256-GCM encryption, and parallel EVM execution. The official site currently states 250,000 TPS end to end, 50 blocks/sec, and 20ms block time. The July 9 AMA described operational variation around 30-50 blocks/sec and explorer catch-up behavior. These remain project-reported figures.
Kima Network merger architecture and migration status
White paper v3.7 describes a full Kima-Aeredium merger. The June 25 AMA called AERLink migration/R&D work; the current official homepage now calls AERLink "shipping" and labels a bank-rail flow "live." The July 9 AMA said Kima functionality is being brought onto Aeredium but did not resolve what is deployed. Treat operational status as disputed until public integration evidence appears.
First consensus block: April 16, 2026
The three-node TEE-BFT network committed its first block on April 16, 2026, following resolution of nine engineering problems across three codebases. The subsequent public benchmark recorded 1,436,820 TPS ingestion with a 0% failure rate across a three-region, intercontinental deployment. No simulation, production hardware, real TEE attestation. Average block size: 333,333 transactions.
$5M institutional investment, April 7, 2026
AEREDIUM Holdings Inc. completed a $5 million investment from Private Markets Capital, LLC, a Washington D.C.-based institutional firm. Structured as a SAFE (Simple Agreement for Future Equity). This is the first named institutional investor in any official Aeredium document, a materially stronger signal than self-funded operations.
AERX exchange listing
AERX is not yet listed. Tokenomics allocate 40M AERX to Public Liquidity. The July 9 AMA described unnamed negotiations in Asia, the United States, and Europe, with listing after mainnet. No venue or date is confirmed. Subscribe for the listing alert →
What Aeredium is building and why it matters
Aeredium is not trying to be a better Ethereum or a faster Solana. The official positioning is more specific: universal settlement infrastructure for the use cases that need it most. Six market verticals, one trust layer.
- Stablecoins: TEE-attested issuance and settlement with bank/payment-rail connectivity through AERLink as a design target; the June 25 AMA clarified that AERLink is still being reprogrammed into Aeredium rather than live production infrastructure.
- Real-world assets: The Lava sandbox is exploring tokenization plus payment/distribution flows for a Caribbean real-estate initiative described at $5.4B total value. Only an unspecified portion may be tokenized. The work is just starting, with no timeline or production settlement evidence.
- Institutional trading: "Prime brokerage without the broker": large-scale swaps between crypto, stablecoins, and fiat using TSS-secured liquidity pools, with direct bank settlement and reduced counterparty exposure as target capabilities still requiring production evidence.
- Cross-chain settlement: Native 10-chain interoperability via Kima Network's TSS technology as the intended execution-layer direction. No wrapped-token bridge model, but AERLink/Kima-derived bank-rail work should be treated as still in migration/R&D per the June 25 AMA.
- Bitcoin scaling: Settlement commitments anchored to Bitcoin, giving Aeredium's history Bitcoin-level finality without requiring changes to Bitcoin itself.
- DeFi: Full EVM compatibility with Block-STM parallel execution, 250,000 TPS described on the public testnet, MetaMask and Hardhat support. Drop-in compatibility for any EVM developer.
- Financial agents: The AER Police ACI assessment and registration are live, while the full service awaits AERKey. The July 9 AMA described policy checks and audit traces as off-chain. AERX gas applies only when protected execution or settlement is submitted to Aeredium.
Published benchmark: 1,436,820 TPS ingestion on a three-node, three-region network under test conditions. Current official positioning is 250,000 TPS end to end and 50 blocks/sec; the July 9 AMA described 30-50 blocks/sec variation and explorer catch-up behavior. The Group Model architecture scales linearly: each additional group of three validators adds theoretical capacity. At 10 groups: ~14.3M TPS projected. There is no stated theoretical ceiling.
How Aeredium is structurally different from everything else
The easiest way to understand Aeredium is by contrast. Every familiar crypto category solves a subset of the problem. Aeredium's architecture is designed to be the substrate that all of them settle on.
General-purpose chains leave institutional use cases underserved
Most L1s optimize for open-ended app execution with token-staked validator consensus. Aeredium eliminates human validators entirely. Validation runs in hardware-secured cloud enclaves. Anti-MEV is not presented as a feature bolted on; Aeredium argues that encrypted TEE execution prevents validators from reading transaction contents before ordering, which is the basis of its front-running-resistance claim.
L2s solve Ethereum throughput, not cross-ecosystem settlement
L2s make Ethereum faster and cheaper but keep you inside the Ethereum ecosystem. Aeredium is fully EVM-compatible (every Ethereum tool works) and simultaneously settles natively across 10 confirmed chains. You get L2 developer ergonomics with L1-level cross-ecosystem reach.
Bridges introduce exactly the risk Aeredium eliminates
Bridge hacks are the single largest category of losses in crypto history, all caused by the lock-and-mint or wrapped-token model. Aeredium's target 10-chain interoperability uses Kima Network's TSS-based settlement inside the execution layer. The intended model uses native assets, no wrapped tokens, and no smart-contract bridge to exploit. See the technical breakdown: Aeredium vs LayerZero.
RWA platforms need infrastructure Aeredium provides at the base layer
Tokenized asset platforms need verifiable execution, compliance-preserving privacy, cross-chain distribution, and fiat settlement rails. Aeredium provides all of these: TEE attestation, AES-256-GCM protocol-level encryption, 10-chain distribution, and AERLink bank/API connectivity as a base-layer design target. Per the June 25 AMA, AERLink is still R&D/migration work rather than completed production infrastructure.
Single-provider TEE just shifts the trust assumption to one cloud company
Aeredium distributes validator enclaves across AWS (50%), Azure (30%), and GCP (20%) simultaneously. No single cloud provider controls the network. Each is constrained to 10–60% of validator capacity by protocol. The decentralization is architectural, not assumed.
For detailed side-by-side analysis with projects in overlapping categories: Aeredium vs Chainlink, Aeredium vs LayerZero, and Aeredium vs Quant Network.
TEE validation and the Aeredium security model
Aeredium calls its decentralisation model "Verifiable Infrastructure," a third category alongside the two conventional approaches. Trustless systems (PoS/PoW chains) rely on economic incentives to keep anonymous validators honest. Trusted systems (centralised operators) rely on legal accountability. Verifiable infrastructure is different: correctness is mathematically provable through hardware attestation, regardless of who operates the nodes.
In practice this means an external auditor can verify any block's authenticity without trusting anyone in the chain of custody. The attestation chain runs from the chip manufacturer (Intel, AMD, ARM) to AEREDIUM's deployment registry to peer validator enforcement. Any enclave running modified code produces a different attestation hash and is automatically rejected by peer validators. No human detection required.
A Trusted Execution Environment (TEE) is a hardware-secured isolated compute environment inside a cloud instance (AWS Nitro Enclaves, Azure SEV-SNP, or GCP Confidential Space). Code running inside a TEE is isolated from the operating system, the hypervisor, and the cloud provider itself. The enclave generates cryptographic attestation proving that specific code ran in a specific unmodified environment. You do not need to trust the cloud provider or the validator operator. You can verify the attestation.
Aeredium runs its entire validator network inside TEEs. Every block is executed inside these enclaves across AWS, Azure, and GCP simultaneously, with each cloud provider constrained to a 10–60% share of validator capacity by protocol rule. The cloud allocation targets are AWS 50%, Azure 30%, GCP 20%. No single provider controls the network. Aeredium argues that because human validators cannot see transaction contents before execution, the architecture is designed to prevent MEV and front-running at the validator layer; that still needs mainnet evidence and audits.
Protocol-level encryption adds a second layer on top of TEE attestation. White paper v3.7 specifies AES-256-GCM encryption across a five-layer privacy architecture and plans Layers 1 and 4 for mainnet. The Privacy Mode is intended to cover transaction-level confidentiality for institutions that require compliance-grade data handling without sacrificing the verifiability that TEE attestation provides.
Threshold key management is handled by AERKey: a 2-of-3 threshold ECDSA system where no single party ever holds a complete private key. The AERKey system is covered by USPTO patent application 63/977,868. See the AERKey deep-dive for the full technical breakdown including the audit trail, Policy Engine, and Privacy Layer architecture.
AWS Nitro + Azure SEV-SNP + GCP Confidential Space
Validator enclaves distributed across three cloud providers simultaneously. AWS 50%, Azure 30%, GCP 20% allocation targets, with each provider capped at 60% maximum. Decentralization at the infrastructure level.
2f+1 fault tolerance, updated block-cadence target
Byzantine fault-tolerant consensus where validators are TEE enclaves, not human operators. Transaction contents are invisible to validators before ordering. MEV is structurally impossible, not just discouraged.
AES-256-GCM, five-layer privacy architecture
Transaction-level confidentiality for institutions requiring compliance-grade data handling. Layers 1 and 4 are planned for mainnet, with delivery still needing public mainnet evidence. No trusted setup required in the described architecture: encryption keys are managed under AERKey threshold signing.
2-of-3 threshold ECDSA, USPTO 63/977,868
No single party holds a complete private key. Key shares are distributed across independent TEE enclaves. AERKey's threshold architecture underpins signing for transactions, cross-chain settlement, and institutional custody operations.
The AERX token: everything you need to know
AERX is the exclusive protocol fuel for metered Aeredium activity. Paid transactions, smart contract execution, and cross-chain settlement operations are metered in AERX gas. The July 9 AMA added one important launch caveat: a faucet may temporarily keep early mainnet use free or nearly free until the later exchange listing.
The supply design is unusually clean. White paper v3.7 sets AERX at exactly 1,000,000,000 tokens, both maximum and floor supply. Zero inflation, no additional issuance mechanism, no burn mechanism. The supply is permanently fixed. Only 100,000,000 AERX (10.00%) enters circulation at TGE, which means the immediate post-launch float is tightly controlled. The remaining 90% vests over time following the schedules in the AERX token guide.
Staking is described in tokenomics through a dedicated 100,000,000 AERX incentive pool offering 0–4% APY: a fixed 2% component emitted from the pool, and a variable component of up to 2% drawn from gas fees. The interface is not live yet, and the 90-day lock per deposit is worth understanding before staking. Full details, vesting tables, and the complete allocation breakdown are in the AERX token guide.
Two things AERX explicitly does not do: it does not give governance rights (no votes, no proposals, no on-chain governance for AERX holders; protocol governance is programmatic, not discretionary), and it does not pay passive yield to holders outside the staking program. The Foundation does not conduct buybacks, price support, or revenue sharing.
AERX is not yet listed. The July 9 AMA separated the August 1 mainnet objective from a later exchange listing and named no venue or date. Tokenomics allocate 40,000,000 AERX to Public Liquidity. Subscribe for the listing alert →
The testnet is live. See for yourself
Aeredium is not vaporware. The public Blockscout explorer at explorer.aeredium.io shows real blocks, real transactions, and real addresses, live right now. The first TEE-BFT consensus block was committed on April 16, 2026, after resolving nine engineering problems across three codebases.
A public benchmark followed: 1,436,820 TPS ingestion across a three-node, three-region network with 2,000,000 transactions processed in 1.39 seconds and a 0% failure rate. The methodology statement is explicit: production hardware, real TEE attestation across intercontinental distances, no simulation. Full benchmark announcement →
The Group Model architecture means this scales linearly. Each additional group of three validators operates as an independent consensus unit. At 10 groups, the projected throughput is ~14.3 million TPS. There is no stated theoretical ceiling.
What testnet confirms: the chain runs, blocks are produced, and the explorer is functional. It does not confirm mainnet production load, token liquidity, paid gas demand, or exchange listings. Those milestones must be verified separately. Live testnet data is pulled on the homepage every 60 seconds. For the full breakdown, read the Aeredium testnet guide.
StablePro Wallet and Kima Network: the full ecosystem picture
Aeredium is not a standalone chain. It is an ecosystem with two major components alongside the base layer: StablePro Wallet as the consumer interface, and Kima Network as the intended settlement/interoperability layer.
StablePro Wallet is Aeredium's non-custodial multi-chain consumer gateway. The official products page positions it as the primary interface for the Aeredium ecosystem, and crucially it is the only officially supported route for the KIMA-to-AERX conversion. The June 18 AMA said iOS and Android availability had expanded to most eligible countries except sanctioned jurisdictions. Full guide at StablePro Wallet guide →
Kima Network is not a separate partnership bolted on afterward. The white paper describes a full-merger architecture in which Aeredium integrates Kima's bridgeless cross-chain infrastructure directly into the execution layer, meaning Aeredium smart contracts are intended to gain interoperability with the 10 confirmed networks through Kima's TSS technology. The July 9 AMA reinforced that migration direction, but did not establish that the complete deployment is live.
For KIMA holders: the tokenomics allocate 42,000,000 AERX for conversion at 5:1 through StablePro Wallet. The current StablePro transfer page extends the deadline through August 1, 2026. Full guide at Kima to Aeredium guide →
What's still ahead: the remaining milestones
Aeredium is testnet-stage. The architecture is defined, the chain is running, the tokenomics are published. Here is what comes next and what to watch for:
- Mainnet launch: The July 9 AMA set an August 1 objective, not a guaranteed date. A faucet may continue until the later exchange listing and could keep early use free or nearly free.
- AERX exchange listing: Follows mainnet but remains undated. The team described unnamed negotiations across Asia, the United States, and Europe. Subscribe for the listing alert →
- KIMA-to-AERX conversion deadline: August 1, 2026 on the current StablePro transfer page. Verify the live route immediately before acting and only use official links.
- StablePro Wallet access: Direct iOS and Android store listings were checked July 3, 2026 after the June 18 AMA said availability had expanded. Verify current official links and regional availability before downloading.
- Third-party audits: Smart contract and TEE implementation audits will be the strongest independent validation of the architecture claims. Worth tracking when published.
- Developer ecosystem: The official developer page now publishes network parameters. The July 9 AMA said a DApp Store, weekly competitions, and developer rewards are starting, but rules and adoption evidence remain pending.
- Quantum-resistance work: A report and libraries were described as roughly a week away. Verify publication before treating them as delivered.
Sources
White paper v3.7
May 2026. Architecture: TEE-BFT consensus, AES-256-GCM privacy mode, AERKey threshold management, AERLink bank connectivity, Kima integration, cloud allocation, 250,000 TPS described testnet.
1.4 Million TPS Benchmark
1,436,820 TPS, 2M transactions, 1.39 seconds, 0% failure rate, three geographic regions, no simulation. Group Model scaling architecture.
The Key That Nobody Holds
Albert Dadon AM: first block April 16, 2026, AERKey 2-of-3 threshold, geographic distribution, public attestation registry.
Decentralisation Through Cryptography and Mathematics
AEREDIUM Foundation: "Verifiable Infrastructure" definition, two-component validator architecture (Parent Compute Instance + TEE Component), attestation chain, control hierarchy.
$5M Investment from Private Markets Capital
Press release, April 7, 2026. PMC investment ($5M SAFE), testnet breakthrough, AI verification system for stablecoins.
CCN RWA payment infrastructure article
July 7, 2026. Reports AEREDIUM's announced participation with Lava Foundation and Bretagne Holding Limited in the Lava Tokenization Sandbox, with Alba Bay framed as a real-world reference environment for tokenized-asset infrastructure evaluation.
FAQ
What is Aeredium in one sentence?
Aeredium is a TEE-attested Layer 1 blockchain built as the trust layer for stablecoins, real-world assets, institutional settlement, and DeFi across 10 confirmed chains, with no human validators, no bridges, and AES-256-GCM protocol-level encryption.
What is AERX?
AERX is the sole gas and network-operations token for the Aeredium ecosystem. Hard-capped at 1 billion, 0% inflation, 100M circulating at TGE. It carries no governance rights or passive yield; it is pure utility fuel for the network.
Is Aeredium live?
Yes, on testnet. Live blocks, transactions, and addresses are visible at explorer.aeredium.io right now. Mainnet and exchange listing are the next major milestones.
Why does Aeredium use multiple cloud providers for TEE?
Running TEE validator enclaves across AWS, Azure, and GCP simultaneously means no single provider can control or compromise the network. Each is capped at 60% maximum by protocol. This is decentralization at the infrastructure level, not just the token-holder level.
How is Kima Network related to Aeredium?
Kima is being migrated into Aeredium as the cross-chain settlement and interoperability layer, not treated as a loose outside partnership. AMA and white-paper material describe Kima's TSS moving toward CGGMP24 inside Nitro Enclaves, while later AMAs still leave full deployment status unresolved. Eitan Katz, Kima's CEO, serves as Aeredium's Chief Strategy Officer.
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