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Nera is a community-owned, EVM-compatible blockchain built from scratch in Southern Alberta. It combines the familiarity of Ethereum tooling with low fees, fast transactions, and true decentralization.

Yes! Nera is fully EVM compatible, meaning you can deploy any Ethereum smart contract to Nera without modifications. All your favorite tools like Hardhat, Foundry, ethers.js, and MetaMask work out of the box.

Nera is built on Cosmos SDK with full EVM compatibility, combining the best of both ecosystems. We use CometBFT consensus for instant finality with ~1 second block times, EIP-1559 dynamic gas pricing, and IBC for cross-chain transfers. 99.98% of tokens are held in a governance-controlled treasury.

NERA is the native token of the network. It's used for paying transaction fees (gas), staking to secure the network, participating in governance decisions, and as collateral in DeFi applications.

Yes, NERA has a fixed supply of 100 million tokens. Unlike Ethereum, Nera does NOT burn fees—all transaction fees are distributed to validators (70%) and the community pool (30%), maintaining a constant supply.

Add Nera to MetaMask using these settings: Network Name: Nera Network, RPC URL: https://rpc.nerachain.io, Chain ID: 587, Currency Symbol: NERA. Nera uses dual chain IDs—587 for EVM and nera_587-1 for Cosmos operations. Visit our Get Started page for detailed setup.

Visit our faucet at faucet.nera.network. Connect your wallet and you'll receive testnet NERA tokens. The faucet has a cooldown period, so you can request tokens once every 24 hours.

All standard Ethereum development tools work with Nera, including Hardhat, Foundry, Remix, Truffle, ethers.js, web3.js, and viem. If it works with Ethereum, it works with Nera.

Nera achieves block finality in approximately 1 second. This means your transactions are confirmed and irreversible almost instantly, much faster than networks with probabilistic finality like Ethereum.

Nera uses CometBFT (formerly Tendermint) consensus, which provides instant finality and strong security guarantees. With up to 50 active validators and proof-of-stake, the network achieves fast, secure, and decentralized consensus.

To become a validator, you need to stake a minimum of 10,000 NERA, set up a validator node meeting our hardware requirements (8+ cores, 32GB RAM, 1TB NVMe SSD), and sign at least 50% of blocks to avoid downtime slashing. Visit our Validators page for detailed setup instructions using the nerad binary.

Yes! You can delegate any amount of NERA to existing validators and earn a share of their rewards. This allows you to participate in securing the network without running your own node.

The unbonding period is 21 days. When you unstake your NERA, there's a waiting period before you can transfer your tokens. This security measure protects the network from certain attack vectors.

Validators face slashing penalties for misbehavior: 0.1% stake slashing for downtime (missing more than 50% of blocks) and 5% for double signing. Slashed validators are jailed and may be permanently removed from the active set.

Staking rewards come entirely from transaction fees (no inflation). 70% of fees go to validators and delegators, while 30% goes to the community pool. Validators set their commission (10% default, max 20%) and the rest goes to delegators proportionally.