Aeva is a Layer 1 built for assets. On most chains, an asset is a token: a balance and nothing more. On Aeva, an asset is native to the protocol. The chain knows who owns it, who earns from it and who votes with it, and each of those rights can be held, sold or pledged on its own. We call this standard AE-20.
This is Mainnet Beta. The chain, the explorer and the app are live today. The bridge from Robinhood Chain and staking rewards open next, in stages, each one announced when it goes live.
What's live today
The chain, running four validators operated by the project, with a genesis anyone can verify.
The explorer, at aevascan.com.
The app, at aevachain.app, including Issue (create an AE-20 asset with ownership, income and vote rights) and Stake (delegate to a validator).
Governance, with proposals and voting on-chain.
What opens next
The bridge from Robinhood Chain, for $AEVA and for USDG, which arrives on Aeva as aeUSD. It opens after a governance vote and our own test transfers, with caps that rise over time.
Staking rewards, switched on by the same governance vote.
Outside validators, in phase two. Requirements will be published beforehand.
If you hold $AEVA on Robinhood Chain, you don't need to do anything. Your tokens stay where they are until the bridge opens. There is nothing to claim and nothing to migrate. We will never DM you.
Network details
Network name: Aeva Mainnet
Cosmos chain ID: aeva-1
EVM chain ID: 2383
Native token: AEVA (18 decimals, base denom aaeva)
Node software: aevad v1.0.1-beta.1
Public endpoints
EVM JSON-RPC: https://evm.aevachain.app
CometBFT RPC: https://rpc.aevachain.app
REST API: https://api.aevachain.app
gRPC: grpc.aevachain.app:443
Explorer: https://aevascan.com (also aevascan.org)
App: https://aevachain.app
Seed node: seed-1.mainnet.aevachain.com:26656
Add Aeva Mainnet to MetaMask
Network name: Aeva Mainnet
RPC URL: https://evm.aevachain.app
Chain ID: 2383
Currency symbol: AEVA
Block explorer: https://aevascan.com
Verify the genesis yourself
Genesis file: https://genesis.aevachain.app/aeva-1/genesis.json
SHA-256: d7d491b078bcb9d16f888077c95404c8f2ba35b4354a6bf853a80b9f2eaf11fa
The genesis was built from a snapshot of the pre-genesis lock on Robinhood Chain, taken after the lock closed at 12:00 UTC today.
Lock contract: 0x5718443e58899a5957b45a4524318E51eD52eF93
Snapshot block: 73,921,712
Snapshot block hash: 5aac8eb4c8fc370f8f02d6fc68ad50e0b934197830b2718bf267ba302fb00cd7
The snapshot, the lock verification and the genesis are all published at genesis.aevachain.app/aeva-1/. Anyone can reproduce them from public chain data.
Supply at genesis
1,000,000,000 AEVA, fixed. There is no mint function.
100,000,000 AEVA from six project locks: validator rewards 60M, staking incentives 20M, and 5M genesis stake for each of the four validators.
900,000,000 AEVA in the bridge escrow, backing $AEVA on Robinhood Chain 1:1. It is released only when $AEVA is bridged in.
Both reward pools start at zero emissions. Governance switches them on.
$AEVA on Robinhood Chain: 0xe8729Dc9dCA85167e06b7E9c66a58b22457c5F30
Fees and governance
60% of every transaction fee is burned from the first block. 40% goes to stakers.
Regular proposals vote for 5 days, with a 10,000 AEVA deposit.
Expedited proposals vote for 2 hours during the Beta, with a 50,000 AEVA deposit. This will be extended as outside validators join.
Quorum is 33.4% of bonded stake.
Software and security
The node software, v1.0.1-beta.1, is signed and published at releases.aevachain.com with SHA-256 checksums.
Before launch, an independent researcher reported a way to halt the chain with a malformed transaction. We reproduced it, fixed it in v1.0.1-beta.1, and verified the fix against more than 33,000 invalid transactions on the mainnet hosts without a single missed block. Our thanks to the researcher.
Security reports: security@aevachain.com. Aeva has not had an external audit; security is covered by our own reviews and a bug bounty.
Testnet
The testnet stays available for trying everything with test tokens.
Chain: aeva-testnet-1, EVM chain ID 2382
App: https://testnet.aevachain.app
Explorer: https://testnet.aevascan.org
Docs: https://docs.aevachain.app
Official links only
Website: aevachain.org
App: aevachain.app
Explorer: aevascan.com
X: @AevaChain
Ownership is the primitive.
