AURORA (AURORA-USD) Research Brief — as of 2026-09-16

What AURORA is

AURORA is the native token of Aurora, an Ethereum-compatible (EVM) scaling environment built on top of the NEAR Protocol. It lets Ethereum developers deploy Solidity dApps in a lower-fee, NEAR-secured environment, with gas paid in ETH at a fixed 0.07 GWei price [17][6]. The AURORA token itself is primarily used for governance, staking, and ecosystem incentives rather than as the network's gas token [6][3][16].