FAQ

The official $AETH token address and any verified swap links are on the Mint & Contracts page. Only trade using addresses published there or in official announcements on X — never links from random DMs or reply guys.

Aether is a collection of 1,000 NFTs on Ethereum, paired with a token called $AETH. The two are linked: holding an Aether NFT earns $AETH over time, and trading activity feeds rewards back to holders.

They're the same contract. Aether uses a DN404 design, where the ERC-20 token and the ERC-721 NFT are co-joined. Every 1,000 $AETH equals one Aether NFT. If your token balance crosses a multiple of 1,000, an NFT is created for you; if it drops below, one returns to the pool.

Exactly 1,000, permanently. The contract enforces a hard cap — no 1,001st NFT can ever be minted, even as the token supply grows.

1,000,000 $AETH at launch (1,000 NFTs × 1,000 tokens). The emission system mints additional $AETH over time, but at a rate that decays toward zero as supply spreads out.

Two ways, both passive — just hold an Aether NFT. First, each NFT emits $AETH every block it's held. Second, a share of buy/sell fees is distributed to NFT holders. You don't stake or lock anything; holding is enough.

No. There's no staking contract and no deposit. Rewards accrue while the NFT simply sits in your wallet. You claim whenever you want.

Each NFT emits up to a maximum rate per block. The actual rate is lower and changes over time — it scales with how much $AETH is still in the liquidity pool versus held by people. The more the supply moves into holders' hands, the lower the emission rate goes.

It's self-regulating by design. Early on, most supply sits in the pool, so emissions run near their maximum. As the project grows and tokens move to holders, the rate decays automatically. This keeps emissions from inflating supply endlessly.

When an NFT changes hands, any unclaimed emission rewards are automatically settled to you — the outgoing holder — before the transfer completes. The new owner starts earning fresh from that point. You don't lose what you earned, but claim regularly anyway.

Through the App dashboard. Emission rewards are claimed per wallet — one action settles all the NFTs you hold. Fee-pool rewards are claimed per NFT.

Emissions don't hard-stop, but the decaying rate means new $AETH approaches zero over time rather than minting forever. There's also a hard ceiling in the contract as a safety backstop.

Yes — 0.5% on buys and 0.5% on sells. Wallet-to-wallet transfers are not taxed. The fee is hard-capped in the contract and can never exceed 1%.

To a reward pool that NFT holders can claim from. The project can also route a portion of the fee to a burn address; that split is adjustable but capped.

The fee pool distributes evenly across all 1,000 NFTs. Each NFT has its own claimable share, so you claim per token you hold.

Unclaimed fee-pool rewards expire after about 30 days. The expired portion is burned. Claim regularly so nothing is lost.

At launch, yes — a temporary cap of 2% of supply per wallet (20,000 $AETH). It increases every block and lifts completely after roughly 20 minutes. It exists to blunt large snipes at launch and then disappears.

Its job is narrow: stop a single bot from grabbing a huge share in the first block of trading. It's friction at the start, not a permanent restriction. It's also worth being honest that it doesn't stop someone splitting across many wallets — it raises the cost of sniping, it doesn't eliminate it.

By adding liquidity to a Uniswap V2 pool. There's no separate "enable trading" switch — trading is live once liquidity is added, and the wallet-limit ramp starts counting from the launch block.

No. There is no admin or owner mint function — it doesn't exist in the contract. The only thing that mints $AETH is the emission claim, and that amount is fixed by a formula (time held × rate). No one can inflate supply by choice.

The mint amount is never chosen by a caller — it's purely time elapsed times the current rate. You can only claim for NFTs you actually hold. There's a hard supply ceiling as a backstop. The contracts are open-source and verified on-chain, so anyone can read the mint logic. Once an audit is complete, the report will be linked on the Mint & Contracts page.

Administrative functions are owned by a timelock, meaning any change is visible on-chain before it takes effect. The owner cannot mint tokens, cannot set the fee above 1%, and cannot pause or extend the launch wallet-limit ramp once it starts.

An audit is planned before mainnet liquidity. The report will be published on the Mint & Contracts page when it's complete. We won't claim an audit until that report is live.

On the Mint & Contracts page — verified mainnet addresses for AetherToken, the NFT mirror, and RewardDistributor, with Etherscan links.

Because the token and NFT are linked by the 1,000:1 ratio. If you hold fewer than 1,000 $AETH you won't have an NFT. If you hold 2,400 $AETH you'll generally have 2 NFTs and 400 leftover tokens. There's also a "skip NFT" setting some addresses use that holds tokens without materializing NFTs.

If all 1,000 NFTs already exist, no new one can be created — the collection is hard-capped. You still hold the tokens; they just can't become NFT #1001. If you have "skip NFT" enabled, NFTs also won't auto-materialize.

NFT metadata and art are stored on IPFS. If an image is slow to load, it's usually the IPFS gateway. Refreshing usually resolves it. You can also browse the full set on the Collection page.

That NFT ID currently isn't held by anyone — its backing tokens are in the liquidity pool or held by a "skip NFT" address. NFTs cycle in and out of existence as token balances move. An unminted ID can become active again when someone's balance crosses the threshold.

Any standard Ethereum wallet — MetaMask, Rabby, and others. Connect through the Connect button on the App page.