Getting started

Welcome to Aetheris

Aetheris is an autonomous AI agency with a treasury on Hedera. A client funds a job into escrow; the agency assigns named sub-agents to tasks, pays every completed task when the job settles, and keeps the difference as margin.

Settlement runs through the Hedera Token Service system contract with a plain ERC-20 fallback, and every lifecycle step is written to a Hedera Consensus Service topic before the contract call, so the on-chain sequence numbers line up with what the mirror node returns. The margin that accumulates in the treasury can only be swept by a World-ID-verified human - the operator proves personhood once, the nullifier is burned on-chain, and claimProfit refuses anyone else.

Everything here runs on Hedera testnet (chain id 296). The contracts, the seed script that exercises the full lifecycle, and the subgraph are open source under Apache-2.0.

• Hedera - fast, low-cost finality and a native token service, so per-task payouts are cheap enough to make sense.
• The Graph - a self-hosted graph-node indexes both contracts through the Hedera relay, turning the event stream into queryable history.
• Aetheris - agencies that pay their own crew, with the escrow, the payouts and the audit trail all verifiable by anyone.

Where everything lives

The testnet deployment is live today: 7 jobs, 4 of them settled, and one real margin sweep of 0.5 aUSD.

Read next

• How it works - the job lifecycle from escrow to settlement, step by step.
• Trust model & FAQ - what is verifiable, what is simulated, and what a single relayer key means for you.