From 53930c4a090530fd211db9b85f63e8c61fe4af2f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Aere Network Date: Sun, 25 Oct 2026 22:52:03 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] Dated corrections (2026-10-25): anchor certificate seals proved signing, not decision, below block 24,148,752 (AIP-22 stage R); per-block finality is no longer the classical ECDSA statement since block 24,300,000 (AIP-22 stage 4), and the second client attributes every consensus message through its post-quantum seal since then --- AERE-AIP-PROCESS-AND-INDEX.md | 2 +- AERE-ARCHITECTURE-MAP.md | 4 ++-- AERE-BUILD-LOOP-SUMMARY-2026-07-19.md | 2 +- AERE-CERTORA-FORMAL-VERIFICATION.md | 2 +- AERE-COMPUTE-MARKET-V3.md | 2 +- AERE-EIP-COMPATIBILITY-MATRIX.md | 2 +- AERE-ENGINEERING-SECURITY-SPEC.md | 4 ++-- AERE-ERC7683-DESTINATION-SUMMARY.md | 2 +- AERE-ERC7683-DESTINATION.md | 2 +- AERE-FORMAL-BROADEN-REPORT.md | 2 +- AERE-POST-QUANTUM-GOVERNANCE.md | 4 ++-- AERE-PQ-FINALITY-CERTIFICATE.md | 2 +- AERE-PQ-SCREEN-SUMMARY.md | 2 +- AERE-PQ-SCREEN.md | 2 +- AERE-PROTOCOL-SPECIFICATION.md | 4 ++-- AERE-QA-CONSOLIDATION-REPORT.md | 4 ++-- AERE-QUANTUM-SAFE-NETWORKING.md | 2 +- AERE-STARK-VERIFIER-PORT-SPEC.md | 2 +- AERE-TLA-FORMAL-SPEC.md | 2 +- AERE-XMSS-AGGREGATION-CIRCUIT.md | 2 +- AIP-PQ-TX-2026-07-18.md | 2 +- README.md | 2 +- 22 files changed, 27 insertions(+), 27 deletions(-) diff --git a/AERE-AIP-PROCESS-AND-INDEX.md b/AERE-AIP-PROCESS-AND-INDEX.md index 18d5de7..c163bf5 100644 --- a/AERE-AIP-PROCESS-AND-INDEX.md +++ b/AERE-AIP-PROCESS-AND-INDEX.md @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ # spec-25: The Aere Improvement Proposal (AIP) Process and Index -> **Note added 2026-09-24.** Validator-set figures in this document (N=7 with f=2 and a commit quorum of 5 of 7, or N=9 with a quorum of 6) describe the set on the date they were written. Since 2026-09-11 chain 2800 has ten validators (f=3, commit quorum 7 of 10), all still operated by the Foundation, one of them running the second, Nethermind-derived client. Since 2026-09-04 the anchor certificate is scheme-tagged and carries Falcon-512 seals, with SLH-DSA-SHA2-128s seals as well at every anchor until block 20,746,736 and at every 128th block since; from block 17,225,968 (2026-09-05) to block 20,746,736 there was one anchor every 128 blocks with at least six valid seals for each scheme, and since then (AIP-22 stages 1 and 2, updated 2026-09-30) a Falcon-512 certificate is required every 32 blocks and SLH-DSA seals every 128, with at least seven valid seals for each scheme, as many as the quorum of the ten validators (the seals prove those validators signed the block, not that it was decided, per the AIP-22 erratum of 2026-10-01), from block 20,715,632; since block 20,836,228 the validators are named in consensus by post-quantum ids. The live set and its quorum are at https://aere.network/docs/network/consensus. +> **Note added 2026-09-24.** Validator-set figures in this document (N=7 with f=2 and a commit quorum of 5 of 7, or N=9 with a quorum of 6) describe the set on the date they were written. Since 2026-09-11 chain 2800 has ten validators (f=3, commit quorum 7 of 10), all still operated by the Foundation, one of them running the second, Nethermind-derived client. Since 2026-09-04 the anchor certificate is scheme-tagged and carries Falcon-512 seals, with SLH-DSA-SHA2-128s seals as well at every anchor until block 20,746,736 and at every 128th block since; from block 17,225,968 (2026-09-05) to block 20,746,736 there was one anchor every 128 blocks with at least six valid seals for each scheme, and since then (AIP-22 stages 1 and 2, updated 2026-09-30) a Falcon-512 certificate is required every 32 blocks and SLH-DSA seals every 128, with at least seven valid seals for each scheme, as many as the quorum of the ten validators (below block 24,148,752 the seals proved those validators signed the block, not that it was decided, per the AIP-22 erratum of 2026-10-01, and from that block a certificate that carries the quorum of one round proves the decision; this clause corrected on 2026-10-25), from block 20,715,632; since block 20,836,228 the validators are named in consensus by post-quantum ids. The live set and its quorum are at https://aere.network/docs/network/consensus. | Field | Value | | --- | --- | diff --git a/AERE-ARCHITECTURE-MAP.md b/AERE-ARCHITECTURE-MAP.md index fc31f9d..2b8eac0 100644 --- a/AERE-ARCHITECTURE-MAP.md +++ b/AERE-ARCHITECTURE-MAP.md @@ -1,8 +1,8 @@ # Aere Network Architecture Map -> **Note added 2026-09-24.** Validator-set figures in this document (N=7 with f=2 and a commit quorum of 5 of 7, or N=9 with a quorum of 6) describe the set on the date they were written. Since 2026-09-11 chain 2800 has ten validators (f=3, commit quorum 7 of 10), all still operated by the Foundation, one of them running the second, Nethermind-derived client. Since 2026-09-04 the anchor certificate is scheme-tagged and carries Falcon-512 seals, with SLH-DSA-SHA2-128s seals as well at every anchor until block 20,746,736 and at every 128th block since; from block 17,225,968 (2026-09-05) to block 20,746,736 there was one anchor every 128 blocks with at least six valid seals for each scheme, and since then (AIP-22 stages 1 and 2, updated 2026-09-30) a Falcon-512 certificate is required every 32 blocks and SLH-DSA seals every 128, with at least seven valid seals for each scheme, as many as the quorum of the ten validators (the seals prove those validators signed the block, not that it was decided, per the AIP-22 erratum of 2026-10-01), from block 20,715,632; since block 20,836,228 the validators are named in consensus by post-quantum ids. The live set and its quorum are at https://aere.network/docs/network/consensus. +> **Note added 2026-09-24.** Validator-set figures in this document (N=7 with f=2 and a commit quorum of 5 of 7, or N=9 with a quorum of 6) describe the set on the date they were written. Since 2026-09-11 chain 2800 has ten validators (f=3, commit quorum 7 of 10), all still operated by the Foundation, one of them running the second, Nethermind-derived client. Since 2026-09-04 the anchor certificate is scheme-tagged and carries Falcon-512 seals, with SLH-DSA-SHA2-128s seals as well at every anchor until block 20,746,736 and at every 128th block since; from block 17,225,968 (2026-09-05) to block 20,746,736 there was one anchor every 128 blocks with at least six valid seals for each scheme, and since then (AIP-22 stages 1 and 2, updated 2026-09-30) a Falcon-512 certificate is required every 32 blocks and SLH-DSA seals every 128, with at least seven valid seals for each scheme, as many as the quorum of the ten validators (below block 24,148,752 the seals proved those validators signed the block, not that it was decided, per the AIP-22 erratum of 2026-10-01, and from that block a certificate that carries the quorum of one round proves the decision; this clause corrected on 2026-10-25), from block 20,715,632; since block 20,836,228 the validators are named in consensus by post-quantum ids. The live set and its quorum are at https://aere.network/docs/network/consensus. -> **Note added 2026-09-24 (consensus).** Where this document says that consensus is classical secp256k1 ECDSA and not post-quantum, read it as the per-block finality statement it still is: each block is committed with classical ECDSA seals. It no longer describes all of consensus on chain 2800: since 2026-08-14 every anchor block must carry a certificate of validator post-quantum seals under its hash (Falcon-512, with SLH-DSA as well since 2026-09-04), and since 2026-09-05 the nine AERE-client validators (nine of the ten) refuse any QBFT consensus message without a valid Falcon-512 seal of its author, while the tenth, the second client, enforces that seal only on commit messages (this clause corrected on 2026-10-12). +> **Note added 2026-09-24 (consensus).** Where this document says that consensus is classical secp256k1 ECDSA and not post-quantum, read it as the per-block finality statement it was until block 24,300,000 (AIP-22 stage 4, 2026-10-25). Since that block every validator attributes a consensus vote only through its verified post-quantum seal, and a block is post-quantum final once the next anchor, at most 32 blocks later, carries the certificate that covers it; headers still carry classical ECDSA commit seals until AIP-22 stage 5 (this sentence corrected on 2026-10-25). It no longer describes all of consensus on chain 2800: since 2026-08-14 every anchor block must carry a certificate of validator post-quantum seals under its hash (Falcon-512, with SLH-DSA as well since 2026-09-04), and since 2026-09-05 the nine AERE-client validators (nine of the ten) refuse any QBFT consensus message without a valid Falcon-512 seal of its author, while the tenth, the second client, enforced that seal only on commit messages until block 24,300,000 and attributes every consensus message only through it since (this clause corrected on 2026-10-12 and 2026-10-25). > **Note added 2026-08-19.** Statements in this document that consensus on chain 2800 is (or remains) classical secp256k1 ECDSA QBFT were written before the post-quantum header anchor went live, and remain true for block-by-block finality. Since block 13,014,000 anchor blocks (every 32nd block, on every one since block 13,889,296) also carry, under the block hash, a certificate of validator Falcon-512 seals, and since 2026-08-14 a node rejects an anchor block with fewer than three valid seals (f+1 of nine; eight or nine are carried in practice). That is a post-quantum checkpoint about every 16 seconds, not a per-block quorum: the claim published on 2026-08-15 that from block 14,050,000 no block finalizes without a post-quantum quorum was wrong (the per-block rule armed at that height is retired in the shipped code in favour of the anchor rules) and was withdrawn on 2026-08-19. Details: https://aere.network/quantum.html and the aere-node repository, anchor/README.md. diff --git a/AERE-BUILD-LOOP-SUMMARY-2026-07-19.md b/AERE-BUILD-LOOP-SUMMARY-2026-07-19.md index 5e06881..cd8f605 100644 --- a/AERE-BUILD-LOOP-SUMMARY-2026-07-19.md +++ b/AERE-BUILD-LOOP-SUMMARY-2026-07-19.md @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ # Aere Network: Autonomous Build Loop Summary (2026-07-19) -> **Note added 2026-09-24 (consensus).** Where this document says that consensus is classical secp256k1 ECDSA and not post-quantum, read it as the per-block finality statement it still is: each block is committed with classical ECDSA seals. It no longer describes all of consensus on chain 2800: since 2026-08-14 every anchor block must carry a certificate of validator post-quantum seals under its hash (Falcon-512, with SLH-DSA as well since 2026-09-04), and since 2026-09-05 the nine AERE-client validators (nine of the ten) refuse any QBFT consensus message without a valid Falcon-512 seal of its author, while the tenth, the second client, enforces that seal only on commit messages (this clause corrected on 2026-10-12). +> **Note added 2026-09-24 (consensus).** Where this document says that consensus is classical secp256k1 ECDSA and not post-quantum, read it as the per-block finality statement it was until block 24,300,000 (AIP-22 stage 4, 2026-10-25). Since that block every validator attributes a consensus vote only through its verified post-quantum seal, and a block is post-quantum final once the next anchor, at most 32 blocks later, carries the certificate that covers it; headers still carry classical ECDSA commit seals until AIP-22 stage 5 (this sentence corrected on 2026-10-25). It no longer describes all of consensus on chain 2800: since 2026-08-14 every anchor block must carry a certificate of validator post-quantum seals under its hash (Falcon-512, with SLH-DSA as well since 2026-09-04), and since 2026-09-05 the nine AERE-client validators (nine of the ten) refuse any QBFT consensus message without a valid Falcon-512 seal of its author, while the tenth, the second client, enforced that seal only on commit messages until block 24,300,000 and attributes every consensus message only through it since (this clause corrected on 2026-10-12 and 2026-10-25). > **Note added 2026-08-19.** Statements in this document that consensus on chain 2800 is (or remains) classical secp256k1 ECDSA QBFT were written before the post-quantum header anchor went live, and remain true for block-by-block finality. Since block 13,014,000 anchor blocks (every 32nd block, on every one since block 13,889,296) also carry, under the block hash, a certificate of validator Falcon-512 seals, and since 2026-08-14 a node rejects an anchor block with fewer than three valid seals (f+1 of nine; eight or nine are carried in practice). That is a post-quantum checkpoint about every 16 seconds, not a per-block quorum: the claim published on 2026-08-15 that from block 14,050,000 no block finalizes without a post-quantum quorum was wrong (the per-block rule armed at that height is retired in the shipped code in favour of the anchor rules) and was withdrawn on 2026-08-19. Details: https://aere.network/quantum.html and the aere-node repository, anchor/README.md. diff --git a/AERE-CERTORA-FORMAL-VERIFICATION.md b/AERE-CERTORA-FORMAL-VERIFICATION.md index a59c845..a634027 100644 --- a/AERE-CERTORA-FORMAL-VERIFICATION.md +++ b/AERE-CERTORA-FORMAL-VERIFICATION.md @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ # Spec 21: Certora formal-verification specifications for Aere Network's safety-critical contracts -> **Note added 2026-09-24 (consensus).** Where this document says that consensus is classical secp256k1 ECDSA and not post-quantum, read it as the per-block finality statement it still is: each block is committed with classical ECDSA seals. It no longer describes all of consensus on chain 2800: since 2026-08-14 every anchor block must carry a certificate of validator post-quantum seals under its hash (Falcon-512, with SLH-DSA as well since 2026-09-04), and since 2026-09-05 the nine AERE-client validators (nine of the ten) refuse any QBFT consensus message without a valid Falcon-512 seal of its author, while the tenth, the second client, enforces that seal only on commit messages (this clause corrected on 2026-10-12). (Note applied to this document on 2026-09-27.) +> **Note added 2026-09-24 (consensus).** Where this document says that consensus is classical secp256k1 ECDSA and not post-quantum, read it as the per-block finality statement it was until block 24,300,000 (AIP-22 stage 4, 2026-10-25). Since that block every validator attributes a consensus vote only through its verified post-quantum seal, and a block is post-quantum final once the next anchor, at most 32 blocks later, carries the certificate that covers it; headers still carry classical ECDSA commit seals until AIP-22 stage 5 (this sentence corrected on 2026-10-25). It no longer describes all of consensus on chain 2800: since 2026-08-14 every anchor block must carry a certificate of validator post-quantum seals under its hash (Falcon-512, with SLH-DSA as well since 2026-09-04), and since 2026-09-05 the nine AERE-client validators (nine of the ten) refuse any QBFT consensus message without a valid Falcon-512 seal of its author, while the tenth, the second client, enforced that seal only on commit messages until block 24,300,000 and attributes every consensus message only through it since (this clause corrected on 2026-10-12 and 2026-10-25). (Note applied to this document on 2026-09-27.) > **Note added 2026-08-19.** Statements in this document that consensus on chain 2800 is (or remains) classical secp256k1 ECDSA QBFT were written before the post-quantum header anchor went live, and remain true for block-by-block finality. Since block 13,014,000 anchor blocks (every 32nd block, on every one since block 13,889,296) also carry, under the block hash, a certificate of validator Falcon-512 seals, and since 2026-08-14 a node rejects an anchor block with fewer than three valid seals (f+1 of nine; eight or nine are carried in practice). That is a post-quantum checkpoint about every 16 seconds, not a per-block quorum: the claim published on 2026-08-15 that from block 14,050,000 no block finalizes without a post-quantum quorum was wrong (the per-block rule armed at that height is retired in the shipped code in favour of the anchor rules) and was withdrawn on 2026-08-19. Details: https://aere.network/quantum.html and the aere-node repository, anchor/README.md. diff --git a/AERE-COMPUTE-MARKET-V3.md b/AERE-COMPUTE-MARKET-V3.md index 26545f2..8ad70b3 100644 --- a/AERE-COMPUTE-MARKET-V3.md +++ b/AERE-COMPUTE-MARKET-V3.md @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ # Aere Compute Market V3 -> **Note added 2026-09-24 (consensus).** Where this document says that consensus is classical secp256k1 ECDSA and not post-quantum, read it as the per-block finality statement it still is: each block is committed with classical ECDSA seals. It no longer describes all of consensus on chain 2800: since 2026-08-14 every anchor block must carry a certificate of validator post-quantum seals under its hash (Falcon-512, with SLH-DSA as well since 2026-09-04), and since 2026-09-05 the nine AERE-client validators (nine of the ten) refuse any QBFT consensus message without a valid Falcon-512 seal of its author, while the tenth, the second client, enforces that seal only on commit messages (this clause corrected on 2026-10-12). +> **Note added 2026-09-24 (consensus).** Where this document says that consensus is classical secp256k1 ECDSA and not post-quantum, read it as the per-block finality statement it was until block 24,300,000 (AIP-22 stage 4, 2026-10-25). Since that block every validator attributes a consensus vote only through its verified post-quantum seal, and a block is post-quantum final once the next anchor, at most 32 blocks later, carries the certificate that covers it; headers still carry classical ECDSA commit seals until AIP-22 stage 5 (this sentence corrected on 2026-10-25). It no longer describes all of consensus on chain 2800: since 2026-08-14 every anchor block must carry a certificate of validator post-quantum seals under its hash (Falcon-512, with SLH-DSA as well since 2026-09-04), and since 2026-09-05 the nine AERE-client validators (nine of the ten) refuse any QBFT consensus message without a valid Falcon-512 seal of its author, while the tenth, the second client, enforced that seal only on commit messages until block 24,300,000 and attributes every consensus message only through it since (this clause corrected on 2026-10-12 and 2026-10-25). > **Note added 2026-08-19.** Statements in this document that consensus on chain 2800 is (or remains) classical secp256k1 ECDSA QBFT were written before the post-quantum header anchor went live, and remain true for block-by-block finality. Since block 13,014,000 anchor blocks (every 32nd block, on every one since block 13,889,296) also carry, under the block hash, a certificate of validator Falcon-512 seals, and since 2026-08-14 a node rejects an anchor block with fewer than three valid seals (f+1 of nine; eight or nine are carried in practice). That is a post-quantum checkpoint about every 16 seconds, not a per-block quorum: the claim published on 2026-08-15 that from block 14,050,000 no block finalizes without a post-quantum quorum was wrong (the per-block rule armed at that height is retired in the shipped code in favour of the anchor rules) and was withdrawn on 2026-08-19. Details: https://aere.network/quantum.html and the aere-node repository, anchor/README.md. diff --git a/AERE-EIP-COMPATIBILITY-MATRIX.md b/AERE-EIP-COMPATIBILITY-MATRIX.md index 11ffe1c..886e8d7 100644 --- a/AERE-EIP-COMPATIBILITY-MATRIX.md +++ b/AERE-EIP-COMPATIBILITY-MATRIX.md @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ # Aere Network: Ethereum EIP Compatibility Matrix -> **Note added 2026-09-24.** Validator-set figures in this document (N=7 with f=2 and a commit quorum of 5 of 7, or N=9 with a quorum of 6) describe the set on the date they were written. Since 2026-09-11 chain 2800 has ten validators (f=3, commit quorum 7 of 10), all still operated by the Foundation, one of them running the second, Nethermind-derived client. Since 2026-09-04 the anchor certificate is scheme-tagged and carries Falcon-512 seals, with SLH-DSA-SHA2-128s seals as well at every anchor until block 20,746,736 and at every 128th block since; from block 17,225,968 (2026-09-05) to block 20,746,736 there was one anchor every 128 blocks with at least six valid seals for each scheme, and since then (AIP-22 stages 1 and 2, updated 2026-09-30) a Falcon-512 certificate is required every 32 blocks and SLH-DSA seals every 128, with at least seven valid seals for each scheme, as many as the quorum of the ten validators (the seals prove those validators signed the block, not that it was decided, per the AIP-22 erratum of 2026-10-01), from block 20,715,632; since block 20,836,228 the validators are named in consensus by post-quantum ids. The live set and its quorum are at https://aere.network/docs/network/consensus. +> **Note added 2026-09-24.** Validator-set figures in this document (N=7 with f=2 and a commit quorum of 5 of 7, or N=9 with a quorum of 6) describe the set on the date they were written. Since 2026-09-11 chain 2800 has ten validators (f=3, commit quorum 7 of 10), all still operated by the Foundation, one of them running the second, Nethermind-derived client. Since 2026-09-04 the anchor certificate is scheme-tagged and carries Falcon-512 seals, with SLH-DSA-SHA2-128s seals as well at every anchor until block 20,746,736 and at every 128th block since; from block 17,225,968 (2026-09-05) to block 20,746,736 there was one anchor every 128 blocks with at least six valid seals for each scheme, and since then (AIP-22 stages 1 and 2, updated 2026-09-30) a Falcon-512 certificate is required every 32 blocks and SLH-DSA seals every 128, with at least seven valid seals for each scheme, as many as the quorum of the ten validators (below block 24,148,752 the seals proved those validators signed the block, not that it was decided, per the AIP-22 erratum of 2026-10-01, and from that block a certificate that carries the quorum of one round proves the decision; this clause corrected on 2026-10-25), from block 20,715,632; since block 20,836,228 the validators are named in consensus by post-quantum ids. The live set and its quorum are at https://aere.network/docs/network/consensus. **Chain:** Aere Network mainnet, chain ID 2800 (`0xaf0`). Execution client: Hyperledger Besu 26.4.0 with QBFT consensus (classical secp256k1 ECDSA, N=7 validators, f=2), approximately 0.5 second blocks. This document is a developer reference: it states, EIP by EIP, where Aere's EVM matches Ethereum mainnet and where it deliberately differs. diff --git a/AERE-ENGINEERING-SECURITY-SPEC.md b/AERE-ENGINEERING-SECURITY-SPEC.md index 448a813..e180c8e 100644 --- a/AERE-ENGINEERING-SECURITY-SPEC.md +++ b/AERE-ENGINEERING-SECURITY-SPEC.md @@ -1,8 +1,8 @@ # Aere Network Engineering and Security Specification -> **Note added 2026-09-24 (consensus).** Where this document says that consensus is classical secp256k1 ECDSA and not post-quantum, read it as the per-block finality statement it still is: each block is committed with classical ECDSA seals. It no longer describes all of consensus on chain 2800: since 2026-08-14 every anchor block must carry a certificate of validator post-quantum seals under its hash (Falcon-512, with SLH-DSA as well since 2026-09-04), and since 2026-09-05 the nine AERE-client validators (nine of the ten) refuse any QBFT consensus message without a valid Falcon-512 seal of its author, while the tenth, the second client, enforces that seal only on commit messages (this clause corrected on 2026-10-12). (Note applied to this document on 2026-09-27.) +> **Note added 2026-09-24 (consensus).** Where this document says that consensus is classical secp256k1 ECDSA and not post-quantum, read it as the per-block finality statement it was until block 24,300,000 (AIP-22 stage 4, 2026-10-25). Since that block every validator attributes a consensus vote only through its verified post-quantum seal, and a block is post-quantum final once the next anchor, at most 32 blocks later, carries the certificate that covers it; headers still carry classical ECDSA commit seals until AIP-22 stage 5 (this sentence corrected on 2026-10-25). It no longer describes all of consensus on chain 2800: since 2026-08-14 every anchor block must carry a certificate of validator post-quantum seals under its hash (Falcon-512, with SLH-DSA as well since 2026-09-04), and since 2026-09-05 the nine AERE-client validators (nine of the ten) refuse any QBFT consensus message without a valid Falcon-512 seal of its author, while the tenth, the second client, enforced that seal only on commit messages until block 24,300,000 and attributes every consensus message only through it since (this clause corrected on 2026-10-12 and 2026-10-25). (Note applied to this document on 2026-09-27.) -> **Note added 2026-09-24.** Validator-set figures in this document (N=7 with f=2 and a commit quorum of 5 of 7, or N=9 with a quorum of 6) describe the set on the date they were written. Since 2026-09-11 chain 2800 has ten validators (f=3, commit quorum 7 of 10), all still operated by the Foundation, one of them running the second, Nethermind-derived client. Since 2026-09-04 the anchor certificate is scheme-tagged and carries Falcon-512 seals, with SLH-DSA-SHA2-128s seals as well at every anchor until block 20,746,736 and at every 128th block since; from block 17,225,968 (2026-09-05) to block 20,746,736 there was one anchor every 128 blocks with at least six valid seals for each scheme, and since then (AIP-22 stages 1 and 2, updated 2026-09-30) a Falcon-512 certificate is required every 32 blocks and SLH-DSA seals every 128, with at least seven valid seals for each scheme, as many as the quorum of the ten validators (the seals prove those validators signed the block, not that it was decided, per the AIP-22 erratum of 2026-10-01), from block 20,715,632; since block 20,836,228 the validators are named in consensus by post-quantum ids. The live set and its quorum are at https://aere.network/docs/network/consensus. +> **Note added 2026-09-24.** Validator-set figures in this document (N=7 with f=2 and a commit quorum of 5 of 7, or N=9 with a quorum of 6) describe the set on the date they were written. Since 2026-09-11 chain 2800 has ten validators (f=3, commit quorum 7 of 10), all still operated by the Foundation, one of them running the second, Nethermind-derived client. Since 2026-09-04 the anchor certificate is scheme-tagged and carries Falcon-512 seals, with SLH-DSA-SHA2-128s seals as well at every anchor until block 20,746,736 and at every 128th block since; from block 17,225,968 (2026-09-05) to block 20,746,736 there was one anchor every 128 blocks with at least six valid seals for each scheme, and since then (AIP-22 stages 1 and 2, updated 2026-09-30) a Falcon-512 certificate is required every 32 blocks and SLH-DSA seals every 128, with at least seven valid seals for each scheme, as many as the quorum of the ten validators (below block 24,148,752 the seals proved those validators signed the block, not that it was decided, per the AIP-22 erratum of 2026-10-01, and from that block a certificate that carries the quorum of one round proves the decision; this clause corrected on 2026-10-25), from block 20,715,632; since block 20,836,228 the validators are named in consensus by post-quantum ids. The live set and its quorum are at https://aere.network/docs/network/consensus. > **Note added 2026-08-19.** Statements in this document that consensus on chain 2800 is (or remains) classical secp256k1 ECDSA QBFT were written before the post-quantum header anchor went live, and remain true for block-by-block finality. Since block 13,014,000 anchor blocks (every 32nd block, on every one since block 13,889,296) also carry, under the block hash, a certificate of validator Falcon-512 seals, and since 2026-08-14 a node rejects an anchor block with fewer than three valid seals (f+1 of nine; eight or nine are carried in practice). That is a post-quantum checkpoint about every 16 seconds, not a per-block quorum: the claim published on 2026-08-15 that from block 14,050,000 no block finalizes without a post-quantum quorum was wrong (the per-block rule armed at that height is retired in the shipped code in favour of the anchor rules) and was withdrawn on 2026-08-19. Details: https://aere.network/quantum.html and the aere-node repository, anchor/README.md. diff --git a/AERE-ERC7683-DESTINATION-SUMMARY.md b/AERE-ERC7683-DESTINATION-SUMMARY.md index 9bd9de7..d05cf9f 100644 --- a/AERE-ERC7683-DESTINATION-SUMMARY.md +++ b/AERE-ERC7683-DESTINATION-SUMMARY.md @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ # Spec 8 - ERC-7683 Destination Settler for Aere Network -> **Note added 2026-09-24 (consensus).** Where this document says that consensus is classical secp256k1 ECDSA and not post-quantum, read it as the per-block finality statement it still is: each block is committed with classical ECDSA seals. It no longer describes all of consensus on chain 2800: since 2026-08-14 every anchor block must carry a certificate of validator post-quantum seals under its hash (Falcon-512, with SLH-DSA as well since 2026-09-04), and since 2026-09-05 the nine AERE-client validators (nine of the ten) refuse any QBFT consensus message without a valid Falcon-512 seal of its author, while the tenth, the second client, enforces that seal only on commit messages (this clause corrected on 2026-10-12). (Note applied to this document on 2026-09-27.) +> **Note added 2026-09-24 (consensus).** Where this document says that consensus is classical secp256k1 ECDSA and not post-quantum, read it as the per-block finality statement it was until block 24,300,000 (AIP-22 stage 4, 2026-10-25). Since that block every validator attributes a consensus vote only through its verified post-quantum seal, and a block is post-quantum final once the next anchor, at most 32 blocks later, carries the certificate that covers it; headers still carry classical ECDSA commit seals until AIP-22 stage 5 (this sentence corrected on 2026-10-25). It no longer describes all of consensus on chain 2800: since 2026-08-14 every anchor block must carry a certificate of validator post-quantum seals under its hash (Falcon-512, with SLH-DSA as well since 2026-09-04), and since 2026-09-05 the nine AERE-client validators (nine of the ten) refuse any QBFT consensus message without a valid Falcon-512 seal of its author, while the tenth, the second client, enforced that seal only on commit messages until block 24,300,000 and attributes every consensus message only through it since (this clause corrected on 2026-10-12 and 2026-10-25). (Note applied to this document on 2026-09-27.) > **Note added 2026-08-19.** Statements in this document that consensus on chain 2800 is (or remains) classical secp256k1 ECDSA QBFT were written before the post-quantum header anchor went live, and remain true for block-by-block finality. Since block 13,014,000 anchor blocks (every 32nd block, on every one since block 13,889,296) also carry, under the block hash, a certificate of validator Falcon-512 seals, and since 2026-08-14 a node rejects an anchor block with fewer than three valid seals (f+1 of nine; eight or nine are carried in practice). That is a post-quantum checkpoint about every 16 seconds, not a per-block quorum: the claim published on 2026-08-15 that from block 14,050,000 no block finalizes without a post-quantum quorum was wrong (the per-block rule armed at that height is retired in the shipped code in favour of the anchor rules) and was withdrawn on 2026-08-19. Details: https://aere.network/quantum.html and the aere-node repository, anchor/README.md. diff --git a/AERE-ERC7683-DESTINATION.md b/AERE-ERC7683-DESTINATION.md index c13fc7f..f94d16d 100644 --- a/AERE-ERC7683-DESTINATION.md +++ b/AERE-ERC7683-DESTINATION.md @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ # Aere Network ERC-7683 Destination Settler -> **Note added 2026-09-24.** Validator-set figures in this document (N=7 with f=2 and a commit quorum of 5 of 7, or N=9 with a quorum of 6) describe the set on the date they were written. Since 2026-09-11 chain 2800 has ten validators (f=3, commit quorum 7 of 10), all still operated by the Foundation, one of them running the second, Nethermind-derived client. Since 2026-09-04 the anchor certificate is scheme-tagged and carries Falcon-512 seals, with SLH-DSA-SHA2-128s seals as well at every anchor until block 20,746,736 and at every 128th block since; from block 17,225,968 (2026-09-05) to block 20,746,736 there was one anchor every 128 blocks with at least six valid seals for each scheme, and since then (AIP-22 stages 1 and 2, updated 2026-09-30) a Falcon-512 certificate is required every 32 blocks and SLH-DSA seals every 128, with at least seven valid seals for each scheme, as many as the quorum of the ten validators (the seals prove those validators signed the block, not that it was decided, per the AIP-22 erratum of 2026-10-01), from block 20,715,632; since block 20,836,228 the validators are named in consensus by post-quantum ids. The live set and its quorum are at https://aere.network/docs/network/consensus. +> **Note added 2026-09-24.** Validator-set figures in this document (N=7 with f=2 and a commit quorum of 5 of 7, or N=9 with a quorum of 6) describe the set on the date they were written. Since 2026-09-11 chain 2800 has ten validators (f=3, commit quorum 7 of 10), all still operated by the Foundation, one of them running the second, Nethermind-derived client. Since 2026-09-04 the anchor certificate is scheme-tagged and carries Falcon-512 seals, with SLH-DSA-SHA2-128s seals as well at every anchor until block 20,746,736 and at every 128th block since; from block 17,225,968 (2026-09-05) to block 20,746,736 there was one anchor every 128 blocks with at least six valid seals for each scheme, and since then (AIP-22 stages 1 and 2, updated 2026-09-30) a Falcon-512 certificate is required every 32 blocks and SLH-DSA seals every 128, with at least seven valid seals for each scheme, as many as the quorum of the ten validators (below block 24,148,752 the seals proved those validators signed the block, not that it was decided, per the AIP-22 erratum of 2026-10-01, and from that block a certificate that carries the quorum of one round proves the decision; this clause corrected on 2026-10-25), from block 20,715,632; since block 20,836,228 the validators are named in consensus by post-quantum ids. The live set and its quorum are at https://aere.network/docs/network/consensus. The receiving side of cross-chain intents on Aere Network. This document explains how the origin and destination halves compose, the solver flow, the repayment proof path, diff --git a/AERE-FORMAL-BROADEN-REPORT.md b/AERE-FORMAL-BROADEN-REPORT.md index 5fa91cd..4c655ea 100644 --- a/AERE-FORMAL-BROADEN-REPORT.md +++ b/AERE-FORMAL-BROADEN-REPORT.md @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ # Formal-verification broadening: new contract SMT models + canonical runner consolidation -> **Note added 2026-09-24 (consensus).** Where this document says that consensus is classical secp256k1 ECDSA and not post-quantum, read it as the per-block finality statement it still is: each block is committed with classical ECDSA seals. It no longer describes all of consensus on chain 2800: since 2026-08-14 every anchor block must carry a certificate of validator post-quantum seals under its hash (Falcon-512, with SLH-DSA as well since 2026-09-04), and since 2026-09-05 the nine AERE-client validators (nine of the ten) refuse any QBFT consensus message without a valid Falcon-512 seal of its author, while the tenth, the second client, enforces that seal only on commit messages (this clause corrected on 2026-10-12). (Note applied to this document on 2026-09-27.) +> **Note added 2026-09-24 (consensus).** Where this document says that consensus is classical secp256k1 ECDSA and not post-quantum, read it as the per-block finality statement it was until block 24,300,000 (AIP-22 stage 4, 2026-10-25). Since that block every validator attributes a consensus vote only through its verified post-quantum seal, and a block is post-quantum final once the next anchor, at most 32 blocks later, carries the certificate that covers it; headers still carry classical ECDSA commit seals until AIP-22 stage 5 (this sentence corrected on 2026-10-25). It no longer describes all of consensus on chain 2800: since 2026-08-14 every anchor block must carry a certificate of validator post-quantum seals under its hash (Falcon-512, with SLH-DSA as well since 2026-09-04), and since 2026-09-05 the nine AERE-client validators (nine of the ten) refuse any QBFT consensus message without a valid Falcon-512 seal of its author, while the tenth, the second client, enforced that seal only on commit messages until block 24,300,000 and attributes every consensus message only through it since (this clause corrected on 2026-10-12 and 2026-10-25). (Note applied to this document on 2026-09-27.) > **Note added 2026-08-19.** Statements in this document that consensus on chain 2800 is (or remains) classical secp256k1 ECDSA QBFT were written before the post-quantum header anchor went live, and remain true for block-by-block finality. Since block 13,014,000 anchor blocks (every 32nd block, on every one since block 13,889,296) also carry, under the block hash, a certificate of validator Falcon-512 seals, and since 2026-08-14 a node rejects an anchor block with fewer than three valid seals (f+1 of nine; eight or nine are carried in practice). That is a post-quantum checkpoint about every 16 seconds, not a per-block quorum: the claim published on 2026-08-15 that from block 14,050,000 no block finalizes without a post-quantum quorum was wrong (the per-block rule armed at that height is retired in the shipped code in favour of the anchor rules) and was withdrawn on 2026-08-19. Details: https://aere.network/quantum.html and the aere-node repository, anchor/README.md. diff --git a/AERE-POST-QUANTUM-GOVERNANCE.md b/AERE-POST-QUANTUM-GOVERNANCE.md index 14b9ba1..cc49a4a 100644 --- a/AERE-POST-QUANTUM-GOVERNANCE.md +++ b/AERE-POST-QUANTUM-GOVERNANCE.md @@ -1,8 +1,8 @@ # Spec 29: Post-Quantum Governance -> **Note added 2026-09-24 (consensus).** Where this document says that consensus is classical secp256k1 ECDSA and not post-quantum, read it as the per-block finality statement it still is: each block is committed with classical ECDSA seals. It no longer describes all of consensus on chain 2800: since 2026-08-14 every anchor block must carry a certificate of validator post-quantum seals under its hash (Falcon-512, with SLH-DSA as well since 2026-09-04), and since 2026-09-05 the nine AERE-client validators (nine of the ten) refuse any QBFT consensus message without a valid Falcon-512 seal of its author, while the tenth, the second client, enforces that seal only on commit messages (this clause corrected on 2026-10-12). (Note applied to this document on 2026-09-27.) +> **Note added 2026-09-24 (consensus).** Where this document says that consensus is classical secp256k1 ECDSA and not post-quantum, read it as the per-block finality statement it was until block 24,300,000 (AIP-22 stage 4, 2026-10-25). Since that block every validator attributes a consensus vote only through its verified post-quantum seal, and a block is post-quantum final once the next anchor, at most 32 blocks later, carries the certificate that covers it; headers still carry classical ECDSA commit seals until AIP-22 stage 5 (this sentence corrected on 2026-10-25). It no longer describes all of consensus on chain 2800: since 2026-08-14 every anchor block must carry a certificate of validator post-quantum seals under its hash (Falcon-512, with SLH-DSA as well since 2026-09-04), and since 2026-09-05 the nine AERE-client validators (nine of the ten) refuse any QBFT consensus message without a valid Falcon-512 seal of its author, while the tenth, the second client, enforced that seal only on commit messages until block 24,300,000 and attributes every consensus message only through it since (this clause corrected on 2026-10-12 and 2026-10-25). (Note applied to this document on 2026-09-27.) -> **Note added 2026-09-24.** Validator-set figures in this document (N=7 with f=2 and a commit quorum of 5 of 7, or N=9 with a quorum of 6) describe the set on the date they were written. Since 2026-09-11 chain 2800 has ten validators (f=3, commit quorum 7 of 10), all still operated by the Foundation, one of them running the second, Nethermind-derived client. Since 2026-09-04 the anchor certificate is scheme-tagged and carries Falcon-512 seals, with SLH-DSA-SHA2-128s seals as well at every anchor until block 20,746,736 and at every 128th block since; from block 17,225,968 (2026-09-05) to block 20,746,736 there was one anchor every 128 blocks with at least six valid seals for each scheme, and since then (AIP-22 stages 1 and 2, updated 2026-09-30) a Falcon-512 certificate is required every 32 blocks and SLH-DSA seals every 128, with at least seven valid seals for each scheme, as many as the quorum of the ten validators (the seals prove those validators signed the block, not that it was decided, per the AIP-22 erratum of 2026-10-01), from block 20,715,632; since block 20,836,228 the validators are named in consensus by post-quantum ids. The live set and its quorum are at https://aere.network/docs/network/consensus. +> **Note added 2026-09-24.** Validator-set figures in this document (N=7 with f=2 and a commit quorum of 5 of 7, or N=9 with a quorum of 6) describe the set on the date they were written. Since 2026-09-11 chain 2800 has ten validators (f=3, commit quorum 7 of 10), all still operated by the Foundation, one of them running the second, Nethermind-derived client. Since 2026-09-04 the anchor certificate is scheme-tagged and carries Falcon-512 seals, with SLH-DSA-SHA2-128s seals as well at every anchor until block 20,746,736 and at every 128th block since; from block 17,225,968 (2026-09-05) to block 20,746,736 there was one anchor every 128 blocks with at least six valid seals for each scheme, and since then (AIP-22 stages 1 and 2, updated 2026-09-30) a Falcon-512 certificate is required every 32 blocks and SLH-DSA seals every 128, with at least seven valid seals for each scheme, as many as the quorum of the ten validators (below block 24,148,752 the seals proved those validators signed the block, not that it was decided, per the AIP-22 erratum of 2026-10-01, and from that block a certificate that carries the quorum of one round proves the decision; this clause corrected on 2026-10-25), from block 20,715,632; since block 20,836,228 the validators are named in consensus by post-quantum ids. The live set and its quorum are at https://aere.network/docs/network/consensus. > **Note added 2026-08-19.** Statements in this document that consensus on chain 2800 is (or remains) classical secp256k1 ECDSA QBFT were written before the post-quantum header anchor went live, and remain true for block-by-block finality. Since block 13,014,000 anchor blocks (every 32nd block, on every one since block 13,889,296) also carry, under the block hash, a certificate of validator Falcon-512 seals, and since 2026-08-14 a node rejects an anchor block with fewer than three valid seals (f+1 of nine; eight or nine are carried in practice). That is a post-quantum checkpoint about every 16 seconds, not a per-block quorum: the claim published on 2026-08-15 that from block 14,050,000 no block finalizes without a post-quantum quorum was wrong (the per-block rule armed at that height is retired in the shipped code in favour of the anchor rules) and was withdrawn on 2026-08-19. Details: https://aere.network/quantum.html and the aere-node repository, anchor/README.md. diff --git a/AERE-PQ-FINALITY-CERTIFICATE.md b/AERE-PQ-FINALITY-CERTIFICATE.md index 0cceaa8..7554836 100644 --- a/AERE-PQ-FINALITY-CERTIFICATE.md +++ b/AERE-PQ-FINALITY-CERTIFICATE.md @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ # Aere Network Post-Quantum Finality Certificate -> **Note added 2026-09-24 (consensus).** Where this document says that consensus is classical secp256k1 ECDSA and not post-quantum, read it as the per-block finality statement it still is: each block is committed with classical ECDSA seals. It no longer describes all of consensus on chain 2800: since 2026-08-14 every anchor block must carry a certificate of validator post-quantum seals under its hash (Falcon-512, with SLH-DSA as well since 2026-09-04), and since 2026-09-05 the nine AERE-client validators (nine of the ten) refuse any QBFT consensus message without a valid Falcon-512 seal of its author, while the tenth, the second client, enforces that seal only on commit messages (this clause corrected on 2026-10-12). +> **Note added 2026-09-24 (consensus).** Where this document says that consensus is classical secp256k1 ECDSA and not post-quantum, read it as the per-block finality statement it was until block 24,300,000 (AIP-22 stage 4, 2026-10-25). Since that block every validator attributes a consensus vote only through its verified post-quantum seal, and a block is post-quantum final once the next anchor, at most 32 blocks later, carries the certificate that covers it; headers still carry classical ECDSA commit seals until AIP-22 stage 5 (this sentence corrected on 2026-10-25). It no longer describes all of consensus on chain 2800: since 2026-08-14 every anchor block must carry a certificate of validator post-quantum seals under its hash (Falcon-512, with SLH-DSA as well since 2026-09-04), and since 2026-09-05 the nine AERE-client validators (nine of the ten) refuse any QBFT consensus message without a valid Falcon-512 seal of its author, while the tenth, the second client, enforced that seal only on commit messages until block 24,300,000 and attributes every consensus message only through it since (this clause corrected on 2026-10-12 and 2026-10-25). Status: on-chain certificate verifier and attestation-key registry BUILT and TESTED against a mock SP1 gateway. The off-chain XMSS / leanSig aggregation zkVM circuit is NOT implemented, diff --git a/AERE-PQ-SCREEN-SUMMARY.md b/AERE-PQ-SCREEN-SUMMARY.md index 857e06b..4c58929 100644 --- a/AERE-PQ-SCREEN-SUMMARY.md +++ b/AERE-PQ-SCREEN-SUMMARY.md @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ # Spec 7: AerePQ-Screen (post-quantum compliance passport) - SUMMARY -> **Note added 2026-09-24 (consensus).** Where this document says that consensus is classical secp256k1 ECDSA and not post-quantum, read it as the per-block finality statement it still is: each block is committed with classical ECDSA seals. It no longer describes all of consensus on chain 2800: since 2026-08-14 every anchor block must carry a certificate of validator post-quantum seals under its hash (Falcon-512, with SLH-DSA as well since 2026-09-04), and since 2026-09-05 the nine AERE-client validators (nine of the ten) refuse any QBFT consensus message without a valid Falcon-512 seal of its author, while the tenth, the second client, enforces that seal only on commit messages (this clause corrected on 2026-10-12). (Note applied to this document on 2026-09-27.) +> **Note added 2026-09-24 (consensus).** Where this document says that consensus is classical secp256k1 ECDSA and not post-quantum, read it as the per-block finality statement it was until block 24,300,000 (AIP-22 stage 4, 2026-10-25). Since that block every validator attributes a consensus vote only through its verified post-quantum seal, and a block is post-quantum final once the next anchor, at most 32 blocks later, carries the certificate that covers it; headers still carry classical ECDSA commit seals until AIP-22 stage 5 (this sentence corrected on 2026-10-25). It no longer describes all of consensus on chain 2800: since 2026-08-14 every anchor block must carry a certificate of validator post-quantum seals under its hash (Falcon-512, with SLH-DSA as well since 2026-09-04), and since 2026-09-05 the nine AERE-client validators (nine of the ten) refuse any QBFT consensus message without a valid Falcon-512 seal of its author, while the tenth, the second client, enforced that seal only on commit messages until block 24,300,000 and attributes every consensus message only through it since (this clause corrected on 2026-10-12 and 2026-10-25). (Note applied to this document on 2026-09-27.) > **Note added 2026-08-19.** Statements in this document that consensus on chain 2800 is (or remains) classical secp256k1 ECDSA QBFT were written before the post-quantum header anchor went live, and remain true for block-by-block finality. Since block 13,014,000 anchor blocks (every 32nd block, on every one since block 13,889,296) also carry, under the block hash, a certificate of validator Falcon-512 seals, and since 2026-08-14 a node rejects an anchor block with fewer than three valid seals (f+1 of nine; eight or nine are carried in practice). That is a post-quantum checkpoint about every 16 seconds, not a per-block quorum: the claim published on 2026-08-15 that from block 14,050,000 no block finalizes without a post-quantum quorum was wrong (the per-block rule armed at that height is retired in the shipped code in favour of the anchor rules) and was withdrawn on 2026-08-19. Details: https://aere.network/quantum.html and the aere-node repository, anchor/README.md. diff --git a/AERE-PQ-SCREEN.md b/AERE-PQ-SCREEN.md index 55ac0d4..663cb99 100644 --- a/AERE-PQ-SCREEN.md +++ b/AERE-PQ-SCREEN.md @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ # AerePQ-Screen: an institution-grade post-quantum compliance passport -> **Note added 2026-09-24 (consensus).** Where this document says that consensus is classical secp256k1 ECDSA and not post-quantum, read it as the per-block finality statement it still is: each block is committed with classical ECDSA seals. It no longer describes all of consensus on chain 2800: since 2026-08-14 every anchor block must carry a certificate of validator post-quantum seals under its hash (Falcon-512, with SLH-DSA as well since 2026-09-04), and since 2026-09-05 the nine AERE-client validators (nine of the ten) refuse any QBFT consensus message without a valid Falcon-512 seal of its author, while the tenth, the second client, enforces that seal only on commit messages (this clause corrected on 2026-10-12). (Note applied to this document on 2026-09-27.) +> **Note added 2026-09-24 (consensus).** Where this document says that consensus is classical secp256k1 ECDSA and not post-quantum, read it as the per-block finality statement it was until block 24,300,000 (AIP-22 stage 4, 2026-10-25). Since that block every validator attributes a consensus vote only through its verified post-quantum seal, and a block is post-quantum final once the next anchor, at most 32 blocks later, carries the certificate that covers it; headers still carry classical ECDSA commit seals until AIP-22 stage 5 (this sentence corrected on 2026-10-25). It no longer describes all of consensus on chain 2800: since 2026-08-14 every anchor block must carry a certificate of validator post-quantum seals under its hash (Falcon-512, with SLH-DSA as well since 2026-09-04), and since 2026-09-05 the nine AERE-client validators (nine of the ten) refuse any QBFT consensus message without a valid Falcon-512 seal of its author, while the tenth, the second client, enforced that seal only on commit messages until block 24,300,000 and attributes every consensus message only through it since (this clause corrected on 2026-10-12 and 2026-10-25). (Note applied to this document on 2026-09-27.) > **Note added 2026-08-19.** Statements in this document that consensus on chain 2800 is (or remains) classical secp256k1 ECDSA QBFT were written before the post-quantum header anchor went live, and remain true for block-by-block finality. Since block 13,014,000 anchor blocks (every 32nd block, on every one since block 13,889,296) also carry, under the block hash, a certificate of validator Falcon-512 seals, and since 2026-08-14 a node rejects an anchor block with fewer than three valid seals (f+1 of nine; eight or nine are carried in practice). That is a post-quantum checkpoint about every 16 seconds, not a per-block quorum: the claim published on 2026-08-15 that from block 14,050,000 no block finalizes without a post-quantum quorum was wrong (the per-block rule armed at that height is retired in the shipped code in favour of the anchor rules) and was withdrawn on 2026-08-19. Details: https://aere.network/quantum.html and the aere-node repository, anchor/README.md. diff --git a/AERE-PROTOCOL-SPECIFICATION.md b/AERE-PROTOCOL-SPECIFICATION.md index d99feb0..a9a9a07 100644 --- a/AERE-PROTOCOL-SPECIFICATION.md +++ b/AERE-PROTOCOL-SPECIFICATION.md @@ -1,8 +1,8 @@ # Aere Network Protocol Specification -> **Note added 2026-09-24.** Validator-set figures in this document (N=7 with f=2 and a commit quorum of 5 of 7, or N=9 with a quorum of 6) describe the set on the date they were written. Since 2026-09-11 chain 2800 has ten validators (f=3, commit quorum 7 of 10), all still operated by the Foundation, one of them running the second, Nethermind-derived client. Since 2026-09-04 the anchor certificate is scheme-tagged and carries Falcon-512 seals, with SLH-DSA-SHA2-128s seals as well at every anchor until block 20,746,736 and at every 128th block since; from block 17,225,968 (2026-09-05) to block 20,746,736 there was one anchor every 128 blocks with at least six valid seals for each scheme, and since then (AIP-22 stages 1 and 2, updated 2026-09-30) a Falcon-512 certificate is required every 32 blocks and SLH-DSA seals every 128, with at least seven valid seals for each scheme, as many as the quorum of the ten validators (the seals prove those validators signed the block, not that it was decided, per the AIP-22 erratum of 2026-10-01), from block 20,715,632; since block 20,836,228 the validators are named in consensus by post-quantum ids. The live set and its quorum are at https://aere.network/docs/network/consensus. +> **Note added 2026-09-24.** Validator-set figures in this document (N=7 with f=2 and a commit quorum of 5 of 7, or N=9 with a quorum of 6) describe the set on the date they were written. Since 2026-09-11 chain 2800 has ten validators (f=3, commit quorum 7 of 10), all still operated by the Foundation, one of them running the second, Nethermind-derived client. Since 2026-09-04 the anchor certificate is scheme-tagged and carries Falcon-512 seals, with SLH-DSA-SHA2-128s seals as well at every anchor until block 20,746,736 and at every 128th block since; from block 17,225,968 (2026-09-05) to block 20,746,736 there was one anchor every 128 blocks with at least six valid seals for each scheme, and since then (AIP-22 stages 1 and 2, updated 2026-09-30) a Falcon-512 certificate is required every 32 blocks and SLH-DSA seals every 128, with at least seven valid seals for each scheme, as many as the quorum of the ten validators (below block 24,148,752 the seals proved those validators signed the block, not that it was decided, per the AIP-22 erratum of 2026-10-01, and from that block a certificate that carries the quorum of one round proves the decision; this clause corrected on 2026-10-25), from block 20,715,632; since block 20,836,228 the validators are named in consensus by post-quantum ids. The live set and its quorum are at https://aere.network/docs/network/consensus. -> **Note added 2026-09-24 (consensus).** Where this document says that consensus is classical secp256k1 ECDSA and not post-quantum, read it as the per-block finality statement it still is: each block is committed with classical ECDSA seals. It no longer describes all of consensus on chain 2800: since 2026-08-14 every anchor block must carry a certificate of validator post-quantum seals under its hash (Falcon-512, with SLH-DSA as well since 2026-09-04), and since 2026-09-05 the nine AERE-client validators (nine of the ten) refuse any QBFT consensus message without a valid Falcon-512 seal of its author, while the tenth, the second client, enforces that seal only on commit messages (this clause corrected on 2026-10-12). +> **Note added 2026-09-24 (consensus).** Where this document says that consensus is classical secp256k1 ECDSA and not post-quantum, read it as the per-block finality statement it was until block 24,300,000 (AIP-22 stage 4, 2026-10-25). Since that block every validator attributes a consensus vote only through its verified post-quantum seal, and a block is post-quantum final once the next anchor, at most 32 blocks later, carries the certificate that covers it; headers still carry classical ECDSA commit seals until AIP-22 stage 5 (this sentence corrected on 2026-10-25). It no longer describes all of consensus on chain 2800: since 2026-08-14 every anchor block must carry a certificate of validator post-quantum seals under its hash (Falcon-512, with SLH-DSA as well since 2026-09-04), and since 2026-09-05 the nine AERE-client validators (nine of the ten) refuse any QBFT consensus message without a valid Falcon-512 seal of its author, while the tenth, the second client, enforced that seal only on commit messages until block 24,300,000 and attributes every consensus message only through it since (this clause corrected on 2026-10-12 and 2026-10-25). > **Note added 2026-08-19.** Statements in this document that consensus on chain 2800 is (or remains) classical secp256k1 ECDSA QBFT were written before the post-quantum header anchor went live, and remain true for block-by-block finality. Since block 13,014,000 anchor blocks (every 32nd block, on every one since block 13,889,296) also carry, under the block hash, a certificate of validator Falcon-512 seals, and since 2026-08-14 a node rejects an anchor block with fewer than three valid seals (f+1 of nine; eight or nine are carried in practice). That is a post-quantum checkpoint about every 16 seconds, not a per-block quorum: the claim published on 2026-08-15 that from block 14,050,000 no block finalizes without a post-quantum quorum was wrong (the per-block rule armed at that height is retired in the shipped code in favour of the anchor rules) and was withdrawn on 2026-08-19. Details: https://aere.network/quantum.html and the aere-node repository, anchor/README.md. diff --git a/AERE-QA-CONSOLIDATION-REPORT.md b/AERE-QA-CONSOLIDATION-REPORT.md index 63204a6..9db1af4 100644 --- a/AERE-QA-CONSOLIDATION-REPORT.md +++ b/AERE-QA-CONSOLIDATION-REPORT.md @@ -1,8 +1,8 @@ # Aere Network Consolidation QA Report -> **Note added 2026-09-24.** Validator-set figures in this document (N=7 with f=2 and a commit quorum of 5 of 7, or N=9 with a quorum of 6) describe the set on the date they were written. Since 2026-09-11 chain 2800 has ten validators (f=3, commit quorum 7 of 10), all still operated by the Foundation, one of them running the second, Nethermind-derived client. Since 2026-09-04 the anchor certificate is scheme-tagged and carries Falcon-512 seals, with SLH-DSA-SHA2-128s seals as well at every anchor until block 20,746,736 and at every 128th block since; from block 17,225,968 (2026-09-05) to block 20,746,736 there was one anchor every 128 blocks with at least six valid seals for each scheme, and since then (AIP-22 stages 1 and 2, updated 2026-09-30) a Falcon-512 certificate is required every 32 blocks and SLH-DSA seals every 128, with at least seven valid seals for each scheme, as many as the quorum of the ten validators (the seals prove those validators signed the block, not that it was decided, per the AIP-22 erratum of 2026-10-01), from block 20,715,632; since block 20,836,228 the validators are named in consensus by post-quantum ids. The live set and its quorum are at https://aere.network/docs/network/consensus. +> **Note added 2026-09-24.** Validator-set figures in this document (N=7 with f=2 and a commit quorum of 5 of 7, or N=9 with a quorum of 6) describe the set on the date they were written. Since 2026-09-11 chain 2800 has ten validators (f=3, commit quorum 7 of 10), all still operated by the Foundation, one of them running the second, Nethermind-derived client. Since 2026-09-04 the anchor certificate is scheme-tagged and carries Falcon-512 seals, with SLH-DSA-SHA2-128s seals as well at every anchor until block 20,746,736 and at every 128th block since; from block 17,225,968 (2026-09-05) to block 20,746,736 there was one anchor every 128 blocks with at least six valid seals for each scheme, and since then (AIP-22 stages 1 and 2, updated 2026-09-30) a Falcon-512 certificate is required every 32 blocks and SLH-DSA seals every 128, with at least seven valid seals for each scheme, as many as the quorum of the ten validators (below block 24,148,752 the seals proved those validators signed the block, not that it was decided, per the AIP-22 erratum of 2026-10-01, and from that block a certificate that carries the quorum of one round proves the decision; this clause corrected on 2026-10-25), from block 20,715,632; since block 20,836,228 the validators are named in consensus by post-quantum ids. The live set and its quorum are at https://aere.network/docs/network/consensus. -> **Note added 2026-09-24 (consensus).** Where this document says that consensus is classical secp256k1 ECDSA and not post-quantum, read it as the per-block finality statement it still is: each block is committed with classical ECDSA seals. It no longer describes all of consensus on chain 2800: since 2026-08-14 every anchor block must carry a certificate of validator post-quantum seals under its hash (Falcon-512, with SLH-DSA as well since 2026-09-04), and since 2026-09-05 the nine AERE-client validators (nine of the ten) refuse any QBFT consensus message without a valid Falcon-512 seal of its author, while the tenth, the second client, enforces that seal only on commit messages (this clause corrected on 2026-10-12). +> **Note added 2026-09-24 (consensus).** Where this document says that consensus is classical secp256k1 ECDSA and not post-quantum, read it as the per-block finality statement it was until block 24,300,000 (AIP-22 stage 4, 2026-10-25). Since that block every validator attributes a consensus vote only through its verified post-quantum seal, and a block is post-quantum final once the next anchor, at most 32 blocks later, carries the certificate that covers it; headers still carry classical ECDSA commit seals until AIP-22 stage 5 (this sentence corrected on 2026-10-25). It no longer describes all of consensus on chain 2800: since 2026-08-14 every anchor block must carry a certificate of validator post-quantum seals under its hash (Falcon-512, with SLH-DSA as well since 2026-09-04), and since 2026-09-05 the nine AERE-client validators (nine of the ten) refuse any QBFT consensus message without a valid Falcon-512 seal of its author, while the tenth, the second client, enforced that seal only on commit messages until block 24,300,000 and attributes every consensus message only through it since (this clause corrected on 2026-10-12 and 2026-10-25). > **Note added 2026-08-19.** Statements in this document that consensus on chain 2800 is (or remains) classical secp256k1 ECDSA QBFT were written before the post-quantum header anchor went live, and remain true for block-by-block finality. Since block 13,014,000 anchor blocks (every 32nd block, on every one since block 13,889,296) also carry, under the block hash, a certificate of validator Falcon-512 seals, and since 2026-08-14 a node rejects an anchor block with fewer than three valid seals (f+1 of nine; eight or nine are carried in practice). That is a post-quantum checkpoint about every 16 seconds, not a per-block quorum: the claim published on 2026-08-15 that from block 14,050,000 no block finalizes without a post-quantum quorum was wrong (the per-block rule armed at that height is retired in the shipped code in favour of the anchor rules) and was withdrawn on 2026-08-19. Details: https://aere.network/quantum.html and the aere-node repository, anchor/README.md. diff --git a/AERE-QUANTUM-SAFE-NETWORKING.md b/AERE-QUANTUM-SAFE-NETWORKING.md index 98ce2c9..c6a776a 100644 --- a/AERE-QUANTUM-SAFE-NETWORKING.md +++ b/AERE-QUANTUM-SAFE-NETWORKING.md @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ # Aere Network Quantum-Safe Networking (Transport Layer) -> **Note added 2026-09-24 (consensus).** Where this document says that consensus is classical secp256k1 ECDSA and not post-quantum, read it as the per-block finality statement it still is: each block is committed with classical ECDSA seals. It no longer describes all of consensus on chain 2800: since 2026-08-14 every anchor block must carry a certificate of validator post-quantum seals under its hash (Falcon-512, with SLH-DSA as well since 2026-09-04), and since 2026-09-05 the nine AERE-client validators (nine of the ten) refuse any QBFT consensus message without a valid Falcon-512 seal of its author, while the tenth, the second client, enforces that seal only on commit messages (this clause corrected on 2026-10-12). (Note applied to this document on 2026-09-27.) +> **Note added 2026-09-24 (consensus).** Where this document says that consensus is classical secp256k1 ECDSA and not post-quantum, read it as the per-block finality statement it was until block 24,300,000 (AIP-22 stage 4, 2026-10-25). Since that block every validator attributes a consensus vote only through its verified post-quantum seal, and a block is post-quantum final once the next anchor, at most 32 blocks later, carries the certificate that covers it; headers still carry classical ECDSA commit seals until AIP-22 stage 5 (this sentence corrected on 2026-10-25). It no longer describes all of consensus on chain 2800: since 2026-08-14 every anchor block must carry a certificate of validator post-quantum seals under its hash (Falcon-512, with SLH-DSA as well since 2026-09-04), and since 2026-09-05 the nine AERE-client validators (nine of the ten) refuse any QBFT consensus message without a valid Falcon-512 seal of its author, while the tenth, the second client, enforced that seal only on commit messages until block 24,300,000 and attributes every consensus message only through it since (this clause corrected on 2026-10-12 and 2026-10-25). (Note applied to this document on 2026-09-27.) > **Note added 2026-08-19.** Statements in this document that consensus on chain 2800 is (or remains) classical secp256k1 ECDSA QBFT were written before the post-quantum header anchor went live, and remain true for block-by-block finality. Since block 13,014,000 anchor blocks (every 32nd block, on every one since block 13,889,296) also carry, under the block hash, a certificate of validator Falcon-512 seals, and since 2026-08-14 a node rejects an anchor block with fewer than three valid seals (f+1 of nine; eight or nine are carried in practice). That is a post-quantum checkpoint about every 16 seconds, not a per-block quorum: the claim published on 2026-08-15 that from block 14,050,000 no block finalizes without a post-quantum quorum was wrong (the per-block rule armed at that height is retired in the shipped code in favour of the anchor rules) and was withdrawn on 2026-08-19. Details: https://aere.network/quantum.html and the aere-node repository, anchor/README.md. diff --git a/AERE-STARK-VERIFIER-PORT-SPEC.md b/AERE-STARK-VERIFIER-PORT-SPEC.md index 8844db2..a57cdae 100644 --- a/AERE-STARK-VERIFIER-PORT-SPEC.md +++ b/AERE-STARK-VERIFIER-PORT-SPEC.md @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ # AERE STARK verifier port specification (0x0AE8): component order, interfaces, vectors, effort -> **Note added 2026-09-24.** Validator-set figures in this document (N=7 with f=2 and a commit quorum of 5 of 7, or N=9 with a quorum of 6) describe the set on the date they were written. Since 2026-09-11 chain 2800 has ten validators (f=3, commit quorum 7 of 10), all still operated by the Foundation, one of them running the second, Nethermind-derived client. Since 2026-09-04 the anchor certificate is scheme-tagged and carries Falcon-512 seals, with SLH-DSA-SHA2-128s seals as well at every anchor until block 20,746,736 and at every 128th block since; from block 17,225,968 (2026-09-05) to block 20,746,736 there was one anchor every 128 blocks with at least six valid seals for each scheme, and since then (AIP-22 stages 1 and 2, updated 2026-09-30) a Falcon-512 certificate is required every 32 blocks and SLH-DSA seals every 128, with at least seven valid seals for each scheme, as many as the quorum of the ten validators (the seals prove those validators signed the block, not that it was decided, per the AIP-22 erratum of 2026-10-01), from block 20,715,632; since block 20,836,228 the validators are named in consensus by post-quantum ids. The live set and its quorum are at https://aere.network/docs/network/consensus. +> **Note added 2026-09-24.** Validator-set figures in this document (N=7 with f=2 and a commit quorum of 5 of 7, or N=9 with a quorum of 6) describe the set on the date they were written. Since 2026-09-11 chain 2800 has ten validators (f=3, commit quorum 7 of 10), all still operated by the Foundation, one of them running the second, Nethermind-derived client. Since 2026-09-04 the anchor certificate is scheme-tagged and carries Falcon-512 seals, with SLH-DSA-SHA2-128s seals as well at every anchor until block 20,746,736 and at every 128th block since; from block 17,225,968 (2026-09-05) to block 20,746,736 there was one anchor every 128 blocks with at least six valid seals for each scheme, and since then (AIP-22 stages 1 and 2, updated 2026-09-30) a Falcon-512 certificate is required every 32 blocks and SLH-DSA seals every 128, with at least seven valid seals for each scheme, as many as the quorum of the ten validators (below block 24,148,752 the seals proved those validators signed the block, not that it was decided, per the AIP-22 erratum of 2026-10-01, and from that block a certificate that carries the quorum of one round proves the decision; this clause corrected on 2026-10-25), from block 20,715,632; since block 20,836,228 the validators are named in consensus by post-quantum ids. The live set and its quorum are at https://aere.network/docs/network/consensus. > **SCOPE CAVEAT (research finding, 2026-07-19; read before anything else).** The six generic > components below are real and conformance-confirmed, but they were confirmed against Plonky3 diff --git a/AERE-TLA-FORMAL-SPEC.md b/AERE-TLA-FORMAL-SPEC.md index 471de58..d6d24eb 100644 --- a/AERE-TLA-FORMAL-SPEC.md +++ b/AERE-TLA-FORMAL-SPEC.md @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ # Spec 27: TLA+ specification of Aere QBFT consensus -> **Note added 2026-09-24.** Validator-set figures in this document (N=7 with f=2 and a commit quorum of 5 of 7, or N=9 with a quorum of 6) describe the set on the date they were written. Since 2026-09-11 chain 2800 has ten validators (f=3, commit quorum 7 of 10), all still operated by the Foundation, one of them running the second, Nethermind-derived client. Since 2026-09-04 the anchor certificate is scheme-tagged and carries Falcon-512 seals, with SLH-DSA-SHA2-128s seals as well at every anchor until block 20,746,736 and at every 128th block since; from block 17,225,968 (2026-09-05) to block 20,746,736 there was one anchor every 128 blocks with at least six valid seals for each scheme, and since then (AIP-22 stages 1 and 2, updated 2026-09-30) a Falcon-512 certificate is required every 32 blocks and SLH-DSA seals every 128, with at least seven valid seals for each scheme, as many as the quorum of the ten validators (the seals prove those validators signed the block, not that it was decided, per the AIP-22 erratum of 2026-10-01), from block 20,715,632; since block 20,836,228 the validators are named in consensus by post-quantum ids. The live set and its quorum are at https://aere.network/docs/network/consensus. +> **Note added 2026-09-24.** Validator-set figures in this document (N=7 with f=2 and a commit quorum of 5 of 7, or N=9 with a quorum of 6) describe the set on the date they were written. Since 2026-09-11 chain 2800 has ten validators (f=3, commit quorum 7 of 10), all still operated by the Foundation, one of them running the second, Nethermind-derived client. Since 2026-09-04 the anchor certificate is scheme-tagged and carries Falcon-512 seals, with SLH-DSA-SHA2-128s seals as well at every anchor until block 20,746,736 and at every 128th block since; from block 17,225,968 (2026-09-05) to block 20,746,736 there was one anchor every 128 blocks with at least six valid seals for each scheme, and since then (AIP-22 stages 1 and 2, updated 2026-09-30) a Falcon-512 certificate is required every 32 blocks and SLH-DSA seals every 128, with at least seven valid seals for each scheme, as many as the quorum of the ten validators (below block 24,148,752 the seals proved those validators signed the block, not that it was decided, per the AIP-22 erratum of 2026-10-01, and from that block a certificate that carries the quorum of one round proves the decision; this clause corrected on 2026-10-25), from block 20,715,632; since block 20,836,228 the validators are named in consensus by post-quantum ids. The live set and its quorum are at https://aere.network/docs/network/consensus. Date: 2026-07-19 Deliverable location: `aerenew/formal-tla/` (new directory) diff --git a/AERE-XMSS-AGGREGATION-CIRCUIT.md b/AERE-XMSS-AGGREGATION-CIRCUIT.md index 22dffbf..b4f387b 100644 --- a/AERE-XMSS-AGGREGATION-CIRCUIT.md +++ b/AERE-XMSS-AGGREGATION-CIRCUIT.md @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ # Aere Network Post-Quantum Finality: XMSS Aggregation Circuit Design -> **Note added 2026-09-24 (consensus).** Where this document says that consensus is classical secp256k1 ECDSA and not post-quantum, read it as the per-block finality statement it still is: each block is committed with classical ECDSA seals. It no longer describes all of consensus on chain 2800: since 2026-08-14 every anchor block must carry a certificate of validator post-quantum seals under its hash (Falcon-512, with SLH-DSA as well since 2026-09-04), and since 2026-09-05 the nine AERE-client validators (nine of the ten) refuse any QBFT consensus message without a valid Falcon-512 seal of its author, while the tenth, the second client, enforces that seal only on commit messages (this clause corrected on 2026-10-12). +> **Note added 2026-09-24 (consensus).** Where this document says that consensus is classical secp256k1 ECDSA and not post-quantum, read it as the per-block finality statement it was until block 24,300,000 (AIP-22 stage 4, 2026-10-25). Since that block every validator attributes a consensus vote only through its verified post-quantum seal, and a block is post-quantum final once the next anchor, at most 32 blocks later, carries the certificate that covers it; headers still carry classical ECDSA commit seals until AIP-22 stage 5 (this sentence corrected on 2026-10-25). It no longer describes all of consensus on chain 2800: since 2026-08-14 every anchor block must carry a certificate of validator post-quantum seals under its hash (Falcon-512, with SLH-DSA as well since 2026-09-04), and since 2026-09-05 the nine AERE-client validators (nine of the ten) refuse any QBFT consensus message without a valid Falcon-512 seal of its author, while the tenth, the second client, enforced that seal only on commit messages until block 24,300,000 and attributes every consensus message only through it since (this clause corrected on 2026-10-12 and 2026-10-25). Research item #4, the off-chain half of the Aere Network Post-Quantum Finality Certificate. diff --git a/AIP-PQ-TX-2026-07-18.md b/AIP-PQ-TX-2026-07-18.md index 08891ff..d6df007 100644 --- a/AIP-PQ-TX-2026-07-18.md +++ b/AIP-PQ-TX-2026-07-18.md @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ # AIP-8: Post-Quantum-Authorized Transaction Envelope (EIP-2718 Type 0x2A) -> **Note added 2026-09-24 (consensus).** Where this document says that consensus is classical secp256k1 ECDSA and not post-quantum, read it as the per-block finality statement it still is: each block is committed with classical ECDSA seals. It no longer describes all of consensus on chain 2800: since 2026-08-14 every anchor block must carry a certificate of validator post-quantum seals under its hash (Falcon-512, with SLH-DSA as well since 2026-09-04), and since 2026-09-05 the nine AERE-client validators (nine of the ten) refuse any QBFT consensus message without a valid Falcon-512 seal of its author, while the tenth, the second client, enforces that seal only on commit messages (this clause corrected on 2026-10-12). (Note applied to this document on 2026-09-27.) +> **Note added 2026-09-24 (consensus).** Where this document says that consensus is classical secp256k1 ECDSA and not post-quantum, read it as the per-block finality statement it was until block 24,300,000 (AIP-22 stage 4, 2026-10-25). Since that block every validator attributes a consensus vote only through its verified post-quantum seal, and a block is post-quantum final once the next anchor, at most 32 blocks later, carries the certificate that covers it; headers still carry classical ECDSA commit seals until AIP-22 stage 5 (this sentence corrected on 2026-10-25). It no longer describes all of consensus on chain 2800: since 2026-08-14 every anchor block must carry a certificate of validator post-quantum seals under its hash (Falcon-512, with SLH-DSA as well since 2026-09-04), and since 2026-09-05 the nine AERE-client validators (nine of the ten) refuse any QBFT consensus message without a valid Falcon-512 seal of its author, while the tenth, the second client, enforced that seal only on commit messages until block 24,300,000 and attributes every consensus message only through it since (this clause corrected on 2026-10-12 and 2026-10-25). (Note applied to this document on 2026-09-27.) > **Note added 2026-08-19.** Statements in this document that consensus on chain 2800 is (or remains) classical secp256k1 ECDSA QBFT were written before the post-quantum header anchor went live, and remain true for block-by-block finality. Since block 13,014,000 anchor blocks (every 32nd block, on every one since block 13,889,296) also carry, under the block hash, a certificate of validator Falcon-512 seals, and since 2026-08-14 a node rejects an anchor block with fewer than three valid seals (f+1 of nine; eight or nine are carried in practice). That is a post-quantum checkpoint about every 16 seconds, not a per-block quorum: the claim published on 2026-08-15 that from block 14,050,000 no block finalizes without a post-quantum quorum was wrong (the per-block rule armed at that height is retired in the shipped code in favour of the anchor rules) and was withdrawn on 2026-08-19. Details: https://aere.network/quantum.html and the aere-node repository, anchor/README.md. diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index 90f1357..37f1927 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ checkpoint every 32 blocks.** Since block 13,014,000 anchor blocks carry, under certificate of validator post-quantum seals (Falcon-512, with SLH-DSA-SHA2-128s as well since 2026-09-04, at every 128th block since 2026-09-29; every anchor was 128 blocks apart from block 17,225,968 to block 20,746,736). Since block 20,715,632 (2026-09-29) a node rejects an anchor block -with fewer than seven valid seals per scheme, as many as the quorum of the ten validators (the seals prove those validators signed the block, not that it was decided, per the AIP-22 erratum of 2026-10-01); the minimum was +with fewer than seven valid seals per scheme, as many as the quorum of the ten validators (below block 24,148,752 the seals proved those validators signed the block, not that it was decided, per the AIP-22 erratum of 2026-10-01, and from that block a certificate that carries the quorum of one round proves the decision); the minimum was three (f+1 of nine, not a quorum) from 2026-08-14 and six from 2026-08-21. That checkpoint lives in the aere-node repository (patch 0003 and `anchor/`), not in this one: nothing in this repository makes consensus post-quantum, and the chain is not "post-quantum consensus" without