Velodrome warned that bridges for VELO on Celo, Fraxtal, Soneium, Unichain, Superseed, Metal, Mode, and Lisk will soon be deprecated, and holders must bridge tokens back to OP Mainnet beforehand. The notice says any xVELO not bridged back by October 15 is at risk of being permanently locked.
The move is part of the ongoing wind-down of Velodrome infrastructure ahead of the merged Aero launch, following earlier announcements that the VELO token would cease trading on Binance and the @VelodromeFi account would be deprecated. Holders on the affected chains are being asked to convert xVELO to VELO on OP Mainnet before the deadline.
Dromos Labs' Aero — the merged Aerodrome/Velodrome liquidity layer — is confirmed to launch October 21, 2026 (8:00 PM EDT / 00:00 UTC October 22), with teasers officially confirming Robinhood Chain and Arbitrum in the final seven-chain lineup alongside Base, Ethereum Mainnet, OP Mainnet, Arc, and Ink. AERO Rewards will stream across all seven chains from day one.
Aero Lite tokens on Arc are now tradable on Fomo, per @aeroxyz. The move extends Aero Lite's early liquidity infrastructure on Arc from day one, connecting the lightweight DEX deployment to Fomo's trading interface.
Aerodrome is highlighting its tokenized stocks offering on Base, underscoring the recent listings of Coinbase-wrapped names and tokenized indexes on the Aero DEX. The push follows a wave of tokenized equity listings including the MAG7 index and Coinbase's tokenized stocks.
In preparation for the Aero launch, the Aerodrome and Velodrome communities are unifying. On 9/10, the Velodrome Discord will be reduced to only required channels, and all community activity will be redirected to the current Aero Discord.
Coinbase's Tokenized Stocks launched on Ethereum with day-one liquidity live on Aerodrome, letting users trade tokenized equities on the Aero DEX from launch. The lineup now includes Nvidia, Meta, Apple, and Google, live as LP tokenized stocks on the exchange, and @DromosLabs confirmed new Coinbase tokenized stocks are now live in its Dromos Kitchen dashboard.
The integration added a community dashboard tracking trading activity, issuance, and market depth for the tokenized stocks, giving users live visibility into the new market as more names list.
Aerodrome has teased Metaswaps, an upcoming feature pitched as letting users trade "any token on any chain" without bridging, wrapping, or waiting. The announcement signals a push toward seamless cross-chain swaps on the Aero DEX, with more details expected around launch.
Aerodrome has listed cbHYPE and cbZEC, the Coinbase-wrapped versions of HYPE and ZEC, on Base. The additions unlock new DeFi use cases for holders, backed by the security of the respective wrapped assets.
Both tokens are now available to Base users through Aerodrome's liquidity and swap infrastructure.
The Aero DEX is entering its final audit phase, with the final audits officially underway ahead of launch on Base. This follows a three-week Sherlock Audit Engine contest in which security researchers hunted for bugs alongside leading auditors, and the earlier public release of Aero's full launch codebase for review.
Once the final audits clear, Aero — powered by MetDEX03 from @DromosLabs — heads toward its go/no-go decision before liftoff. - Results from the audits will inform the final launch decision
Aero has now published the full codebase for its launch, with all components live in its public repos so researchers can review the code. This follows the earlier release of the Predictive Allocation module, where sAERO continuously allocates rewards while the AER Engine optimizes how those rewards are directed. With the complete codebase now public, builders and researchers can inspect how Aero's reward flows and the rest of the MetDEX03-powered DEX are computed in real time.
Dromos Labs, developer of both Velodrome and Aerodrome, announced the two platforms would merge into a single cross-chain DEX called Aero, powered by the METADEX03 operating system and a new native token, with launch targeted for Q2 2026.
Velodrome announced its Superchain Beta rollout across the OP Stack, beginning with an initial deployment on Mode, as part of its expansion beyond Optimism mainnet.
Velodrome announced it was the first MetaDEX, a single unified protocol combining AMMs, liquid locks, auto-voting, and rewards, alongside the pending rollout of Slipstream.
Velodrome shipped Slipstream, its concentrated-liquidity implementation adapted from Uniswap V3 core contracts, per the protocol's official legal disclosures.
Through social engineering against the domain registrar, an attacker took control of the domains and redirected traffic to malicious clones that prompted wallet-signing approvals, resulting in an estimated loss of up to $250,000.
Velodrome announced it received 1.25 million OP tokens as an Optimism grant to support ecosystem growth, governance participation, and expansion of the Optimistic vision.
Velodrome V2 launched as a complete redesign, adding decentralization, dynamic fees, concentrated liquidity support, a dynamic emissions rate, and the Velodrome Relay, along with an emissions reset.
Velodrome launched as an automated market maker on the Optimism Layer 2 network, with initial distribution of its VELO and veVELO governance tokens.
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