# Aere Network: Autonomous Build Loop Summary (2026-07-19)

A single clean record of the non-stop build loop. Every item below was verified before it was marked done: real numbers where measured, honest `[MEASURE]` / `[VERIFY]` markers where not, and the post-quantum scope boundary kept everywhere (consensus is classical secp256k1 ECDSA QBFT; only signatures, accounts, and precompiles are post-quantum). Nothing here was deployed to mainnet; every activation stays founder-gated.

## Consolidation QA (proof it all coexists)

- Full rebuild: `hardhat clean && compile` compiled 339 Solidity files, zero errors, all new contracts present.
- Tests: 118 passing, 1 pending (a deliberate not-applicable case), 0 failing across the 10 new test files.
- Cross-document consistency: 0 contradictions. Burn is 37.5% of the validator reward (cap 50%, not a base-fee burn); live precompiles are 0x0AE1..0x0AE5; consensus is N=7 / f=2 / quorum 5; the 273k TPS figure is labeled a ceiling, never a measured rate.
- Report: `aerenew/docs/AERE-QA-CONSOLIDATION-REPORT.md`.

## Depth verification phase (after the roadmap breadth was built)

The new contracts were not just built and unit-tested; they were then reviewed, hardened, and formally proven:

- Adversarial security review (17 contracts, fund-flow first): 0 CRITICAL, 0 HIGH, 1 MEDIUM, 3 LOW. The 4 money contracts are clean on all priority properties (CEI plus reentrancy, per-asset escrow solvency with no double-count, no double-pay, no pay-without-proof, fee-on-transfer rejected, fail-closed PQC consumption). Report: `AERE-SECURITY-REVIEW-NEW-CONTRACTS.md`.
- All findings fixed and re-tested: M1 (feedback-author allowlist), L1 (codeless-gateway guard in 3 verifiers), L2 (VectorStore receipt bound to provider), L3 (documented, executor-gated). Report: `AERE-SECURITY-FIXES.md`.
- Formal verification broadened from the existing consensus corpus to the new contracts: 7 new z3 SMT models (3 fund-flow, 4 registry/verifier), each proved with a firing negative control (non-vacuous), wired into the canonical runner. Fresh canonical run: 15 models, 15 of 15 pass, 128 properties PROVED, 79 counterexample negative controls fired, 0 failed. Reports: `AERE-FORMAL-EXTENSION-MONEY-CONTRACTS.md`, `AERE-FORMAL-BROADEN-REPORT.md`; `aerenew/REPRODUCE.md` updated with the real fresh count.
- Full regression after the security fixes: compile green, 122 tests passing, 0 failing, 1 pending (a deliberate not-applicable case). No regression.

Net state of the new contract suite: built, unit-tested (122 passing), QA-compiled (339 files), security-reviewed and hardened (0 critical/high open), and formally proven (15 z3 models). All founder-gated, none deployed.

## Wave 1: the credibility document cluster (13 docs, the "grade 10" package)

All under `aerenew/docs/` (plus `aerenew/REPRODUCE.md` and `aerenew/formal-tla/`).

| # | Deliverable | File |
|---|---|---|
| 17 | Engineering and security specification (threat model, guarantees table, 11 assumptions, design rationale, failure analysis, engineering principles) | AERE-ENGINEERING-SECURITY-SPEC.md |
| 22 | Architecture map (layered stack plus cross-cutting concerns, Mermaid) | AERE-ARCHITECTURE-MAP.md |
| 20 | Ethereum EIP compatibility matrix (EIP by EIP, plus deliberate deviations) | AERE-EIP-COMPATIBILITY-MATRIX.md |
| 19 | NIST validation status (ACVP for FIPS-final schemes, KAT for Falcon, honest "not a certification") | AERE-NIST-VALIDATION-STATUS.md |
| 18 | Reproducible benchmark report (chain, zkVM comparative, crypto-op gas; fresh Block-STM run) | AERE-BENCHMARK-REPORT.md |
| 23 | Reproducibility manifest (fresh SMT 10/10 + 8/8, contract SMT 9/9 green, Hardhat spot-check) | aerenew/REPRODUCE.md |
| 25 | AIP / RFC process and index (real AIP-1..8 inventory, drafted AIP-9..16, no fabricated discussion) | AERE-AIP-PROCESS-AND-INDEX.md |
| 24 | Protocol specification (the delta over Ethereum + QBFT, reimplementable) | AERE-PROTOCOL-SPECIFICATION.md |
| 26 | Cross-client determinism (Besu vs Nethermind byte-identical evidence) | AERE-CROSS-CLIENT-DETERMINISM.md |
| 28 | Reproducible builds and deterministic release | AERE-REPRODUCIBLE-BUILDS.md |
| 29 | Post-quantum governance design | AERE-POST-QUANTUM-GOVERNANCE.md |
| 30 | Quantum-safe networking (transport layer, PQ TLS + devp2p) | AERE-QUANTUM-SAFE-NETWORKING.md |

## New contracts built and tested (all founder-gated, none deployed)

| # | Contract(s) | Tests | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 9 | AereRandomnessBeaconV2 (oracle) | 15 passing | Real BLS12-381 drand verify via EIP-2537, replaces a `return true` stub, fail-closed. Ran against live drand quicknet vectors. |
| 3 | AereRecoveryRegistry | 10 passing | Falcon-attested consensus-recovery registry + chaos matrix scaffold + watchtower design. |
| 5 | erc8004/ (Identity, Reputation, Validation, AP2 mandate) | 18 passing | Thin adapters over the live agent stack; PQC validation registry is the differentiator. |
| 7 | compliance/ (TrustRegistry, VerifiableCredential, BitstringStatusList) | 12 passing | Institution-grade compliance passport, W3C VC 2.0 + eIDAS-aligned trust registry + zk non-revocation interface. |
| 8 | intents/AereDestinationSettler | 4 passing | ERC-7683 destination fill, wired to the QBFT finality light client for repayment. |
| 10 | depin/AereComputeMarketV3 | 13 passing | Proof-carrying compute jobs (replay / zk-verified / optimistic) + PQC settlement + escrow solvency invariant. |
| 12 | agentic/AereVectorStore | 8 passing | Verifiable semantic memory for AI agents (Falcon-signed commits, attested retrieval, AERE402 paid query). |
| 14 | pqc/AereAccountMigrator | 9 passing | Atomic ECDSA-account to PQC-account migration (the last account-layer quantum gap). |
| 6 | mpc/AerePQAggregateVerifier + modular/AerePQAggregateModule | 17 passing | One SP1 proof attests a t-of-n PQC committee, cost O(1) in n (measured 61.8k gas flat), ERC-7579 portable. |
| 4 | pqfinality/AerePQAttestationKeyRegistry + AereFinalityCertificateVerifier | 12 passing | Additive post-quantum finality certificate; no consensus flip, no re-genesis. |

For every contract above, the Falcon precompile (0x0AE1) and the SP1 gateway are mocked in the unit tests and hard-wired to the live addresses for production; the real-precompile path is proven separately against live mainnet.

## Formal methods, research, and tooling

| # | Deliverable | Status |
|---|---|---|
| 21 | Certora CVL formal specs for burn / sAERE / registries / threshold | Written; running the prover is `[MEASURE]` (Certora free tier). No rule claimed proved. |
| 27 | TLA+ specification of QBFT (safety + liveness, N=4 and N=7 configs) | Written and structurally checked; running TLC is `[MEASURE]`. Complements the z3 corpus. |
| 2 | Native STARK-verify (0x0AE8) porting spec + generic BabyBear+FRI components | Honest: a ~11-16 person-week port. The six generic components (BabyBear field, Poseidon2, MMCS, FRI, transcript, generic AIR quotient) are conformance-confirmed against Plonky3 `0.4.3-succinct`. SCOPE CAVEAT (2026-07-19 finding): those components verify BabyBear+FRI STARKs (Aere's OWN Plonky3 zk-circuits), NOT SP1 6.1.0, which is Hypercube (KoalaBear multilinear); FRI/DEEP-ALI do not apply to SP1 6.1.0. This does NOT let us "verify SP1 proofs now"; replacing the SP1 BN254 Groth16 wrap is a separate ~22-32 person-week retarget (`AERE-STARK-SP1-RECURSION-AIR-PORT-SPEC-SUMMARY.md`). Top-level verifier stays fail-closed and verifies nothing. |
| 31 | Quantum Migration Toolkit (scanner + SDK + cost simulator) | Runnable tool. Scanner ran against live RPC (chain 2800). `aerenew/pqc-migration-toolkit/`. |

## Off-roadmap issues caught and flagged (spawned as separate tasks)

- A stale AIP copy in `aere-research-repo/aips/` still claims "three validators" and a Foundation "multisig", contradicting the current seven-validator, single-key reality. Flagged for fix-to-honest.
- The `Dockerfile.reproducible` base-image digests are placeholders, so the reproducible build cannot resolve until real registry digests are pinned. Flagged.

## What remains gated (needs you, not code)

- External audit (Trail of Bits / NCC Group): the single largest credibility gate, business-funded.
- Consensus post-quantum activation, first non-Foundation validator, contract-ownership transfer to the Timelock, Season 1 funding, bug-bounty funding: all founder-gated and, where relevant, audit-gated and N greater-than-or-equal-to 9 plus soak gated.
- First live CoreBook market, institutional compliance adoption, real GPU/prover supply: business and counterparty gated.
- Deferred by founder decision (queued, not run): encrypted mempool (#15), economic-soundness simulation (#16).

Nothing in this loop moved real funds, created a token, or touched the live validators or the production infra box.