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.
The Aerodrome Protocol Growth Fund (PGF) executed a 171K $AERO buyback, acquiring and max-locking the tokens as part of its market-aware buyback program. The model uses a rules-based approach, scaling deployment based on market conditions and concentrating resources when it matters most.
LAPTOP is now live on Aerodrome, with trading active on the $LAPTOP–$USDC pool. 4M LAPTOP tokens have been deposited as incentives for the pool.
The listing adds another asset to Aerodrome's roster of onchain pools on Base, with incentives backing early liquidity for the token.
In preparation for the launch of Aero, the Aerodrome and Velodrome communities are unifying. The announcement from Velodrome outlines what the unification means for both communities as Aero's launch approaches.
AERO can now be used as collateral for fixed-rate borrowing through Tenor OTC. The integration lets AERO holders access loans against their tokens without selling, expanding the token's utility beyond liquidity provision and staking on Aerodrome.
No further details on loan-to-value ratios or available terms have been disclosed at this time.
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 wrapped its
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 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.
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 — 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.
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.
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.
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 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.
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