FINANCIAL INFRASTRUCTURE LAYER · V4.2

The living rail
for programmable money
across every border.

AETHER is a unified planetary infrastructure layer. Biometric identity, tokenization, payments and treasury — one network, settled in milliseconds, compliant in every jurisdiction.

182/196
Active jurisdictions
99.998%
Network uptime
T+0
Settlement finality
N · 90°
S · 90°
W · 180°
E · 0°
Live throughput
284,000 tx/sec
Edge latency
42 ms
▼ 3.2%
24h volume
$12.4B USD
▲ 1.8%
Node regions
47 online
▲ 2 new
DRAG TO ROTATE
AUTO-SPIN WHEN IDLE
NEW YORK 40.7NLONDON 51.5NTOKYO 35.7NSINGAPORE 1.3N SÃO PAULO 23.5SDUBAI 25.3NFRANKFURT 50.1NHONG KONG 22.3N SYDNEY 33.9SMUMBAI 19.0NLAGOS 6.5NTORONTO 43.6N SEOUL 37.5NMEXICO CITY 19.4NCAPE TOWN 33.9SNAIROBI 1.2S NEW YORK 40.7NLONDON 51.5NTOKYO 35.7NSINGAPORE 1.3N SÃO PAULO 23.5SDUBAI 25.3NFRANKFURT 50.1NHONG KONG 22.3N SYDNEY 33.9SMUMBAI 19.0NLAGOS 6.5NTORONTO 43.6N SEOUL 37.5NMEXICO CITY 19.4NCAPE TOWN 33.9SNAIROBI 1.2S
§ 01 — SERVICES

Infrastructure for programmable finance.

Four primitives. One unified network. Designed to be composed, audited and scaled by regulated institutions across every market.

01 / BIOMETRIC IDENTITY

Prove who you are
without revealing anything.

Zero-knowledge biometric authentication bound to a sovereign digital ID. KYC once — reuse across 182 jurisdictions, compliant with FATF, MiCA and local regulators.

ZK-BIOMETRICSOVEREIGN ID GLOBAL KYCFIDO2
02 / TOKENIZATION

Any asset, any chain.

Issue, manage and settle tokenized real-world assets with programmable compliance.

U
USDT
$1.00
+0.01%
B
BTCT
$68,432.00
+2.14%
X
XSGD
$0.74
−0.03%
E
EURC
$1.08
+0.12%
03 / PAYMENTS RAIL

Settle across borders
in under 400 ms.

Instant, final, atomic. Auto-FX across 47 currencies and 9 CBDCs. ISO 20022 native.

04 / TREASURY

Programmable balance sheet.

Institutional custody, automated yield, hedging, liquidity routing — one control plane.

05 / COMPLIANCE

Every packet, auditable.

Continuous travel-rule, sanctions screening and reporting. MiCA · DORA · FATF native.

06 / DEVELOPER

One API. Everything below.

RESTful, gRPC, WebSockets. SDKs for 11 languages. Integrate in days, not quarters.

§ 02 — ARCHITECTURE

One layer. Infinite access.

A modular stack where each tier is independently verifiable and hot-swappable.

L5

Application & partner APIs

REST · gRPC · WebSocket · SDK × 11

L4

Compliance engine

Travel-rule · Sanctions · Risk scoring · Attestations

L3

Payment & settlement rail

T+0 · Atomic multi-leg · 47 fiat · 9 CBDCs · ISO 20022

L2

Tokenization fabric

RWA issuance · Smart contracts · Multi-chain bridges

L1

Identity & key custody

ZK-biometric · HSM · MPC · Sovereign DID

aether@core:~/ $ trace --tx 0xa0f…c12
identity verify(did:aether:0xa0f…c12) OK [42 ms]
compliance screen(FATF, MiCA, OFAC) OK [18 ms]
fx quote(USD→SGD, 250,000.00) OK [6 ms]
settle atomic(NY → SG) FINAL [312 ms]
attest seal(merkle_root, zk_proof) OK [9 ms]

TX 0xa0f…c12 confirmed · T+0 · 387 ms end-to-end
P50 LATENCY
284ms
P99 LATENCY
712ms
TPS
284Ktps
§ 03 — PROTOCOLS

Built on the best rails humanity has shipped.

ETHEREUMSOLANAPOLYGON STELLARAVALANCHECHAINLINK ISO 20022SWIFT GPIZK-SNARKS FIDO2CBDC RAILTCP/IP ETHEREUMSOLANAPOLYGON STELLARAVALANCHECHAINLINK ISO 20022SWIFT GPIZK-SNARKS FIDO2CBDC RAILTCP/IP
§ 04 — DEPLOY

Ready to build on the planetary rail?

Join the banks, treasuries and fintechs already running on AETHER. Production credentials in under 48 hours.

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