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, 10-chain interoperability without bridges or wrapped tokens, using Kima Network's TSS-based settlement layer built directly into the Aeredium execution environment.
AER is the fuel for all of this. Fixed at 1 billion tokens, zero inflation, 0% additional issuance, ever. The chain is already processing transactions on testnet. Exchange listing is coming at mainnet launch. The window to be a first mover is right now, while competition for Aeredium search traffic is still essentially zero.
How this guide is sourced
Everything in this guide is drawn from primary sources. Architecture claims trace to white paper v3.7 (May 2026). Tokenomics are documented in white paper v3.7 (May 2026). AMA statements are attributed separately. Blog posts and press releases from the official Aeredium blog are cited inline. 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.
AER tokenomics: 1B hard cap, 0% inflation, 87M TGE float
White paper v3.7 is explicit: 1,000,000,000 AER maximum and floor supply, 0% inflation, no additional issuance, 87,000,000 AER at TGE (8.7%). 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 measured testnet
White paper v3.7 describes TEE-BFT consensus inside AWS/Azure/GCP enclaves, protocol-level AES-256-GCM encryption across a five-layer privacy architecture, parallel EVM (Block-STM) achieving 250,000 TPS on the live testnet, and 2-second block time.
Kima Network fully merged as the settlement layer
White paper v3.7 describes the KIMA-AEREDIUM relationship as a full merger. Kima's cross-chain settlement now runs as Trust Contracts under AERKey threshold signing. Every Aeredium smart contract gains interoperability with 10 confirmed networks through this integration.
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.
AER exchange listing
AER is not yet listed. The tokenomics allocate a dedicated Public Liquidity pool (40M AER) for exchange pairs including AER/USDC and AER/ETH. Listing follows mainnet launch. 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 direct bank API connectivity, Open Banking support, and CBDC-readiness: the compliance-first stablecoin rails institutions actually need.
- Real-world assets: Proof-of-ownership, atomic DvP settlement, AES-256-GCM protocol-level encryption for compliance, and cross-chain RWA distribution across 10 confirmed networks without bridges.
- Institutional trading: "Prime brokerage without the broker": large-scale swaps between crypto, stablecoins, and fiat using TSS-secured liquidity pools and direct bank settlement, no counterparty risk.
- Cross-chain settlement: Native 10-chain interoperability via Kima Network's TSS technology embedded in the execution layer. No wrapped tokens, no lock-and-mint bridges.
- 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 measured on the live testnet, MetaMask and Hardhat support. Drop-in compatibility for any EVM developer.
Published benchmark: 1,436,820 TPS ingestion on a live three-node, three-region network under test conditions with 0% failure rate and no simulation. White paper v3.7 states a measured testnet figure of 250,000 TPS at 2-second block time. 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 a feature bolted on; it is impossible to front-run inside a TEE because validators never see transaction contents before ordering.
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 10-chain interoperability uses Kima Network's TSS-based settlement embedded in the execution layer. Native assets, no wrapped tokens, 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 direct bank API connectivity via AERLink, as base-layer primitives, not add-ons.
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, and no human validator can see transaction contents before execution, which eliminates MEV and front-running at the architecture level.
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. Layers 1 and 4 deploy at mainnet. The Privacy Mode covers 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, 2-second block time
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 deploy at mainnet launch. No trusted setup required: 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 AER token: everything you need to know
AER is the exclusive fuel for the Aeredium network. Every transaction, every smart contract execution, every cross-chain settlement operation is metered in gas and paid in AER. There is no secondary token, no fee-exempt address, no alternative payment path. The entire network's economic activity flows through AER.
The supply design is unusually clean. White paper v3.7 sets AER 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 87,000,000 AER (8.7%) enters circulation at TGE, which means the immediate post-launch float is tightly controlled. The remaining 91.3% vests over time following the schedules in the AER token guide.
Staking is available through a dedicated 100,000,000 AER 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 90-day lock per deposit is worth understanding before staking. Full details, vesting tables, and the complete allocation breakdown are in the AER token guide.
Two things AER explicitly does not do: it does not give governance rights (no votes, no proposals, no on-chain governance for AER 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.
AER is not yet listed on exchanges. Exchange listing is expected at mainnet launch, with a dedicated 40,000,000 AER Public Liquidity allocation earmarked for exchange pairs including AER/USDC and AER/ETH. 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, the explorer is functional, and a stress benchmark shows strong throughput. What it does not yet confirm: exchange listings, token liquidity, or mainnet production load. Those follow at mainnet launch. 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 embedded 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-AER conversion. Available on Android and Google Play. iOS availability has not been confirmed. Full guide at StablePro Wallet guide →
Kima Network is not a separate partnership. It's embedded. The white paper states that Aeredium integrates Kima's bridgeless cross-chain infrastructure directly into the execution layer, meaning every Aeredium smart contract gains interoperability with 13 major networks through Kima's TSS technology. The official AMA described Kima as "the cross-chain settlement layer" inside Aeredium, with the Kima community fully integrated and the Kima layer identity preserved.
For KIMA holders: the tokenomics allocate 42,000,000 AER for conversion at 5:1 through StablePro Wallet. Swap window: June 1–30, 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 primary catalyst. Exchange listing, full production throughput, and live institutional use cases all follow mainnet. Confirmed for August 2026 per the official AERKey product page.
- AER exchange listing: Follows mainnet. The tokenomics allocate a 40M AER Public Liquidity pool specifically for CEX and DEX pairs. Subscribe for the listing alert →
- KIMA-to-AER conversion window: June 1–30, 2026. Official links and step-by-step instructions will be published by Aeredium and Kima through official channels. Only use official links.
- StablePro Wallet full launch: Live on Android and Google Play. iOS availability has not been confirmed. Full network support and production-ready conversion route follow official launch.
- Third-party audits: Smart contract and TEE implementation audits will be the strongest independent validation of the architecture claims. Worth tracking when published.
- Developer documentation and benchmarks: Production throughput data, public benchmark methodology, and open-source documentation will substantiate the performance and architecture claims.
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 measured 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.
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 AER?
AER is the sole gas and network-operations token for the Aeredium ecosystem. Hard-capped at 1 billion, 0% inflation, 87M 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 embedded in Aeredium as the cross-chain settlement and interoperability layer, not a partner bolted on afterward. Kima's TSS infrastructure runs inside Aeredium's execution layer, upgraded to CGGMP24 inside AWS Nitro Enclaves. Eitan Katz, Kima's CEO, serves as Aeredium's Chief Strategy Officer.
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