Aerodrome Finance
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What is Aerodrome Finance?
Trading and distribution
Aerodrome's pools provide onchain liquidity for asset swaps on Base. Liquidity providers can deposit their positions into reward gauges. Those gauges distribute AERO according to the protocol's emissions and voting allocations. The initial token supply was 500 million AERO. Of that amount, 450 million was assigned in vote-escrowed form. Subsequent emissions mean the initial allocation is not a lifetime supply ceiling.
Vote-escrow positions
Locking AERO creates a veAERO NFT representing the position. Lock durations run from one week to four years. Voting weight reflects the locked amount and remaining duration. An optional Auto-Max setting keeps the duration at four years. Without that setting, voting power falls as expiry approaches.
Fees and incentives
veAERO positions direct reward allocations among eligible pools during weekly epochs. Voters receive trading revenue from the pools they support in proportion to their vote share. Additional incentives can be supplied by protocols seeking liquidity. Locked AERO cannot be withdrawn before expiry, although the NFT has transfer rules of its own. After expiry, the holder can recover the underlying tokens through the withdrawal function.
Where to trade AERO
53 exchanges · top 10
Live spot quotes from connected exchanges
AERO funding rates
Live perpetual funding on every connected exchange. Positive = longs pay shorts.
Contracts & chains
Exact contract or mint per network — the identity layer used for DEX routing.
On-chain routes
Networks with a connected DEX routing adapter.