
Aerodrome
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Aerodrome Finance is a next-generation AMM designed to serve as Base's central liquidity hub, combining a powerful liquidity incentive engine, vote-lock governance model, and friendly user experience. Aerodrome inherits the latest features from Velodrome V2. Aerodrome NFTs vote to distribute token emissions and receive incentives and fees generated by the protocol.
LP rewards go live for new Coinbase Tokenized Stocks
LP rewards are now live for all newly listed Coinbase Tokenized Stocks on Aerodrome, adding yield-bearing pools on top of the recent batch of onchain equities. The batch — Amazon, Microsoft, Strategy, SanDisk, SpaceX, and Tesla — joins earlier listings of Nvidia, Meta, Apple, and Google on Base.
Aerodrome provides day-one liquidity and cashback on tokenized stock trades, with hands-off LPing available via Bankr. The 1:1 physically backed stocks are available to persons in eligible out-of-US jurisdictions, and a Dromos Labs dashboard tracks issuance, volume, and market depth.
Aerodrome recaps weekly wave of stock and product launches
Aerodrome wrapped its
BASECAT–WETH pool on Aerodrome becomes emissions-eligible

The $BASECAT–$WETH pool on Aerodrome is now eligible to receive AERO emissions, welcoming Basecat to the platform. Incentives for the pool are now live, with emissions on its way.
Aerodrome announces Metaswaps for cross-chain token swaps
Aerodrome has announced Metaswaps, a feature allowing any token swap across any chain without bridging, wrapping, or waiting. The feature is described as "coming soon" with a new landing page published. Metaswaps would let users exchange tokens across chains in a single app, eliminating the multi-step process of bridging assets manually.
Aerodrome's move into cross-chain swaps expands its role beyond a Base-native liquidity venue, though no launch date has been specified.
Aerodrome PGF executes 281K AERO buyback, ~200M total locked

The Aerodrome Protocol Growth Fund (PGF) executed a 281K $AERO buyback, using its market-aware strategy to repurchase tokens from the market.
- Cumulatively, roughly 200M $AERO has now been bought back and locked through the PGF, Flight School, Relay, and related efforts.
- The recurring buybacks reflect Aerodrome's ongoing capital-return program for AERO holders.
CP–USDC pool on Aerodrome becomes emissions-eligible

The $CP–$USDC pool on Aerodrome is now eligible to receive AERO emissions, welcoming the Open Protocol Foundation to the platform. Incentives for the pool are now live, with emissions incoming.
The listing continues Aerodrome's rollout of new assets on Base as the liquidity venue for onchain trading.
cbHYPE and cbZEC pools go live on Aerodrome
cbHYPE and cbZEC — Coinbase's wrapped HYPE and Zcash tokens — have landed on Aerodrome on Base, backed by the security and trust of Coinbase. The listings bring the two assets into DeFi, unlocking new use cases for holders on the network. Aerodrome's Chinese community account @aerochinese also shared the announcement, confirming the tokens are custodied by Coinbase and 1:1 backed.
Pools are live with emissions incoming, positioning Aerodrome as the venue for trading the Coinbase-wrapped assets onchain.
Aerodrome promotes onchain stock trading push
Aerodrome shared a promotional post under the tagline "Stocks onchain. Powered by Aerodrome", reinforcing its push to become the liquidity hub for tokenized equity trading on Base. The message highlights the platform's infrastructure supporting onchain stock activity, part of its broader effort to bring global equities to DeFi.
Aero final audits underway via Sherlock Audit Engine
The Aero Audit Contest is now live via Sherlock's Audit Engine, with final audits officially underway for three weeks ahead of Aero's launch. Security researchers are hunting for vulnerabilities alongside AI-assisted auditors, working from the full launch codebase Aerodrome has published for review.
- $400K up for grabs: $100K guaranteed, $200K if a High is found, $400K if a Critical is found.
- Aerodrome says Aero's launch and its expansion to Ethereum and other chains is "just on the horizon."
Aerodrome key metrics now available through DatalineAI
Aerodrome announced that key platform metrics—including volume, TVL, and pool data—are now available through @DatalineAI. The integration gives users a new way to track the protocol's onchain activity.
Aerodrome suffers DNS-hijacking front-end attack on its domains
Attackers used DNS hijacking on Aerodrome's .finance and .box domains to redirect users to phishing sites; the team said smart contracts were secure and urged users to avoid the compromised domains.
Merger of Aerodrome and Velodrome into unified DEX Aero announced
Dromos Labs announced that Aerodrome and Velodrome would merge into a single DEX called Aero, unifying AERO and VELO into one token and expanding via its METADEX03 system, targeted for launch in Q2 2026.
AERO Fed governance takes over weekly emission control at epoch 67
Aerodrome replaced its predictable 1%-weekly-decreasing emission schedule with the AERO Fed, a dedicated smart-contract governor that lets veAERO voters adjust emission rates weekly.
Aerodrome launches on the Base network as its central liquidity hub
Aerodrome went live on Coinbase's Base L2 as an AMM combining features from Velodrome V2, Curve, and Uniswap, launching its AERO token under a vote-escrowed governance model.