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.

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
§ 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
§ 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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