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@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ address book of 130+ live contracts on chain 2800.
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 | Chain name | AERE Network |
 | Chain ID | 2800 (`0xAF0`) |
-| Consensus | QBFT, final on commit at the validators; since block 24,300,000 (AIP-22 stage 4) the Besu-derived validators count a vote only through its 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 are still admitted on their ECDSA commit seals until AIP-22 stage 5); every 32nd block carries a post-quantum certificate whose digest sits under its hash (details on aere.network; corrected 2026-10-28: this row said per-block finality on classical secp256k1 ECDSA commit seals) |
+| Consensus | QBFT, final on commit at the validators; since block 24,300,000 (AIP-22 stage 4) the Besu-derived validators count a vote only through its 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 (since block 25,080,000, AIP-22 stage 5, headers no longer carry ECDSA commit seals and are admitted on the Falcon-512 seal of their proposer alone; a commit still carries the ECDSA commit seal of its validator as an additional check); every 32nd block carries a post-quantum certificate whose digest sits under its hash (details on aere.network; corrected 2026-10-28: this row said per-block finality on classical secp256k1 ECDSA commit seals) |
 | Validators | 10 since 2026-09-11, Byzantine-fault tolerance f=3, commit quorum 7 of 10 |
 | Operator / client diversity | Single operator (the Foundation); two client implementations, Besu-derived and Nethermind-derived (one validator, since 2026-09-11) |
 | Block period | 0.5 s target; measured 0.62 s (median of five 20,000-block windows, 2026-10-15); deterministic finality |
@@ -52,7 +52,7 @@ AERE draws a hard line between consensus and the application layer, and this SDK
 keeps it:
 
 - **Consensus is QBFT with post-quantum layers on top of it, each dated
-  (headers are still admitted on their ECDSA commit seals until AIP-22 stage 5).** Blocks are proposed and committed
+  (since block 25,080,000, AIP-22 stage 5, headers no longer carry ECDSA commit seals and are admitted on the Falcon-512 seal of their proposer alone; a commit still carries the ECDSA commit seal of its validator as an additional check).** Blocks are proposed and committed
   by ten Foundation validators since 2026-09-11 (quorum 7 of 10, f=3; nine, quorum 6 of 9, f=2,
   until then): nine run the Besu-derived client, and the tenth, since 2026-09-11, a second,
   Nethermind-derived client that proposes and seals blocks (its public read endpoint is