Next steps

Where to go after the first deploy.

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You have a wallet on chain 2800, a transaction and a deployed contract. Where to go depends on what you came for.

You are building an application

  • EVM compatibility: which forks are active and what differs.
  • Fees and the base fee floor: the one economic rule that is not Ethereum's.
  • Events and logs: including the state window, beyond which state reads are refused (and once answered a false zero).
  • Indexer API: recent blocks, transactions and an address balance without scanning blocks yourself; no per-address history (corrected 2026-10-27: this line said indexed history).

You came for the cryptography

You want to check us rather than believe us

  • Run a node. Every verification we offer through our own endpoint is, in the end, a verification done on our server. Your own node removes that.
  • Protocol specification: the normative document, including a section on what it cannot state from the published sources.
  • Network operations: who operates the validator set today, client diversity and audit status.

You want to talk to someone

The code is public at git.aere.network. Issues there are read. The Foundation page says how the project is funded and stewarded.