A declaration written onto a blockchain, where it stays — readable now, or sealed until a date you choose.
AION inscribes a declaration permanently on Base, an Ethereum layer-2 blockchain. The text and its artwork are stored on the chain itself, not on a server — so no company holds them, and nobody, including AION, can edit or delete one once it is made.
Write it, choose a date, and inscribe it — a time capsule that opens on the date you chose and not before. The words are encrypted with a timelock before they ever reach the chain, so between now and that date nobody can read them — not the recipient, not AION, not anyone holding the encrypted bytes. At the appointed hour the key becomes derivable and the declaration opens by itself.
0.001 ETH, plus a premium that rises as more declarations are made. 85% of the premium becomes a deposit that stays redeemable by whoever holds the inscription — the fee is mostly a deposit, not a payment.
Of the 0.001 ETH base fee, 1.62% goes to the architect, 3% to the platform and 0.14% is locked in the contract as permanent dust — the remaining 95.24% stays with the inscription itself. Of the premium above that fee, 85% becomes a deposit the holder can redeem. Every one of those figures is a constant in the contract and cannot be changed by anyone, including its author.
The declaration does not. Both the words and the artwork live in the contract on Base; the site only reads them. The image is generated by on-chain code and returned as a data URI, so it needs no server, no gateway and no domain to exist.
Yes — that is what the Notary intent is for. Inscribing records a hash of the text and the block's timestamp, both permanent and public, which is a proof of existence anyone can check without trusting AION.
Only the wallet it was addressed to. It is encrypted to that wallet's X25519 mailbox key, derived from a signature the owner alone can produce. The chain stores the ciphertext; the ciphertext is useless without that key.
The inscription is an ERC-1155 token, one per declaration, and it can be held and transferred. But the point is the record, not the trade: the declaration and its art persist on-chain whether or not the token ever changes hands.
No. AION is also a well-known MMORPG by NCSoft, and the two have nothing to do with each other. This AION is an on-chain notary and art project at aionchronos.art; its contract is public on Base and verifiable on BaseScan, which is a difference a machine can check rather than take on trust.