Aether is a collection of 1,000 NFTs on Ethereum, but it's more than art. Each Aether is built on the DN404 standard, which fuses an NFT and a token into a single asset. The NFT and the $AETH token aren't two separate things you trade; they're the same thing in two forms. Every 1,000 $AETH equals one Aether NFT, and crossing that threshold mints one to you automatically. Drop below it and the NFT returns to circulation. The collection is permanently capped at 1,000, and that limit is enforced in the contract and can never be exceeded.
Introduction
AETHER PROTOCOL
Aether
1,000 NFTs on Ethereum, paired with $AETH. The first collection where holding actually earns: each NFT mints Stardust, the $AETH generated by simply holding. Trading activity flows back to holders too.
What is Aether?
What makes Aether different is that holding it does something. Most NFTs sit in your wallet and wait. An Aether earns: every NFT generates $AETH every block it's held, and a share of all trading activity flows back to holders. There's nothing to stake and nothing to lock. The NFT works simply by being held.
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Holding Isn't Passive
Emissions
Every Aether NFT earns $AETH every block it's held, with no staking and no locking. Just hold it. The emission rate eases down over time as the token spreads into more hands, so it's self-regulating rather than endlessly inflating.
Today's max is around 7 $AETH per NFT per day — and it only ever scales down from there.
Fee Rewards
A 0.5% fee on every buy and sell flows back to Aether holders. The more the collection is traded, the more its holders earn, and a portion can be burned, tightening supply.
Fee distribution
Each 0.5% buy/sell fee is split between holders and a burn — the share is adjustable, capped at 1% total.
Fixed & Capped
1,000 NFTs, forever. The cap is enforced in the contract. The trading fee can never exceed 1%, and there's no admin mint function: no one can inflate the supply at will.
1,000
NFTs forever
1%
Max fee
0
Admin mints
Tokenomics
Built to Be Verifiable
Aether is built so you don't have to trust the team. You can check the contract yourself. No one can mint $AETH at will: there is no admin or owner mint function, and it isn't a power the team chose not to use. It doesn't exist in the code. New $AETH is created only by the emission system, and even then the amount is fixed by a formula: time held multiplied by a rate that decays over time, with a hard ceiling on total emissions built into the contract. No discretionary minting, by anyone.
The buy/sell fee is capped in the contract at 1% and cannot be raised beyond it. Administrative controls sit behind a timelock, so any change is visible on-chain before it can take effect. The contracts are open-source and verified on-chain, so anyone can read exactly how minting, fees, and rewards work. As with any onchain project, review the contracts and understand the mechanics before participating.