Aerodrome Finance AERO
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CM Profile: Aerodrome Finance
Cryptominium Profile. What we have established, measured and written about AERO, and what we have not.
- Measured
- Selling $100,000 of AERO on Base returned almost exactly the quoted price, on 15 October 2026.
- Selling $100,000 on 2 exchange order books lost between 0.17% and 0.37%, on 15 October 2026.
- Its price, recorded by us every day since 9 August 2026.
- Written, with sources
Read from our own records when this page was made. It describes what we know, and is not a view on whether to hold AERO. How each part is worked out
What changed
Week to 15 OctoberNothing we measure moved much this week: the cost of selling on Base, trading volume, reported supply and price are all within their usual range.
From our own measurements only, each against the month before. We do not say why a price moves. How this is worked out · Every coin this week
What it actually costs to sell AERO
Selling $100,000 of AERO returned 0.0% less than the quoted price — Deep. Measured 2026-10-15 on Base.
Selling AERO on exchanges
Selling $100,000 of AERO into each exchange’s resting bids, measured against the mid price:
| Exchange | Lost | Got back | Measured |
|---|---|---|---|
| Coinbase AERO/USD | 0.17% | $99,827 | 2026-10-15 |
| Kraken AERO/USD | 0.37% | $99,634 | 2026-10-15 |
Exchange figures need an account there (and KYC, a permitted country, the tokens already deposited), are before trading fees, and are never averaged with the on-chain figure. Binance is not included: it refuses requests from the region our servers are in. How this is measured →
Watch this number instead of remembering it. A free account keeps AERO on a list, records where it stood the day you added it, and emails you if selling it on these exchanges gets materially harder — one message, not a series. The measurement itself stays public; the account is for being told when it moves without you looking.
What Aerodrome Finance is
Aerodrome Finance is an automated market maker (AMM) built to function as the central liquidity hub for Base. It combines a liquidity incentive engine with a vote-lock governance model. The project describes itself as inheriting its core features from Velodrome V2, an AMM design originally deployed on Optimism.
The mechanism follows the vote-escrow AMM pattern: liquidity providers supply assets to trading pools, and AERO token holders can lock their tokens to gain voting power over which pools receive emissions. Those votes direct incentives toward specific liquidity pairs, and in turn a share of the trading fees and incentives generated by voted-for pools flows back to the holders who directed the vote. This ties governance participation directly to a claim on emissions, rather than governance being a separate, symbolic layer.
Aerodrome is deployed on a single chain, Base — it is not a cross-chain protocol, and any exposure to it is exposure to activity on that one network. It is categorized as a DEX/AMM/DeFi token, meaning its value is tied to trading volume and liquidity depth on Base rather than to an independent product or revenue stream outside that ecosystem. The vote-lock governance model concentrates influence over emissions among those willing to lock tokens for a period, which is a structural tradeoff, not a flaw disclosed as such. Because its design is described as inherited from Velodrome V2, it carries forward that model's incentives and risks rather than introducing an independently verified mechanism. Nothing here describes audits, revenue figures, or emission schedules, and none should be assumed.
What Aerodrome Finance can do
Selling $100,000 through the pools on Base returned 0.0% less than the quoted price. The full measurement →
Our own measurement · measured 15 October 2026
AERO earns only when it is locked, for between one week and four years, and used to vote each week on which pools get rewards. Voters receive the exchange's revenue. Locked AERO cannot be taken out early.
Source: Aerodrome docs · checked 2 October 2026
New AERO is issued every week as rewards to those who provide liquidity. The docs put the rate at about 10.9% a year as of April 2026, on a total supply of 1.88 billion.
Source: Aerodrome docs · checked 2 October 2026
What a coin can do is not a reason to buy it or to sell it. Each answer names its source and the day we read it; where we could not source one, the row is left out. How these are written · Every coin we have written up
Where AERO lives
On Ethereum, Base and BNB Chain, GoPlus's analysis of each contract is read weekly: whether it has a function to block addresses or pause transfers, and whether an owner holds it. That is GoPlus's reading, not ours. Where a token exists on several chains, one copy's settings say nothing about the original coin.
Always verify a contract address against the project's own site before sending anything. Addresses are shown as published by CoinGecko, not as an endorsement — and identical-looking tokens on other chains are the most common way people lose money here.
Price change
Aerodrome Finance data synced 5m ago from CoinGecko. Figures shown in USD. This page is market information, not financial advice — and nothing here is a recommendation to buy or sell AERO.