Velodrome and Aerodrome are coming together to form Aero, the unified liquidity layer for all of Ethereum.
For the latest on the new DEX & its economic engine👇
I see a lot of doomposting about Bitcoin and crypto because crypto is somehow not the favourite toy of the market at the moment (AI stonks are).
I want to remind that crypto is not a toy, and it's serving its true purpose - self-sovereignty of every user, financial rails which are always on and do not stop working. Institutions are also into adopting something which has no clunky intermediaries now, so fundamentally we are better than ever.
AI is foundational, but it will go through its own valley of death: replacing humans by AI would put AI outputs into AI inputs, quality will degrade, and costs will grow exponentially to maintain it. Large companies who push AI everywhere aren't necessarily using it correctly, so they report some overly large expenses.
Both technologies - crypto and AI - are foundational. They are not the same thing though, and they are not competing with each other in principle.
Crypto is the future of Finance!
Aerodrome, now available for AI agents 🛫
A Python SDK, CLI and Claude Code skill enabling:
✅ Swaps
✅ Liquidity management
✅ Listing pools/positions
✅ Prepared, ready-to-sign transactions
The next stage of the agentic onchain economy is here.
Get started 👇
https://t.co/nauxjUZ1Gr
Introducing Dromos Kitchen.
A community-led initiative that leverages AI, data, & analytics to surface new insights across DeFi.
Kicking things off are 2 community created dashboards:
Net Token Value Flows
Aero Ignition Terminal
https://t.co/yHIsr0U98x
190M $AERO Acquired & Locked All-Time ✈️
The Aerodrome PGF just bought back 340K $AERO, with 55M acquired and locked in the last year alone, 190M all-time.
Exchanges are one of the only onchain products with indisputable PMF — they print in good times and bad.
And it’s interesting that in the midst of all the volatility, @AerodromeFi is closing in on #1.
And that’s while operating on just one chain (for now).
See also: my criticism of the idea that ZK alone, even if well implemented, is sufficient to make "identity verification" pro-freedom: https://t.co/rye1q5G90G
(And some alternative ideas for how to solve underlying goals)
262K AERO Buyback ✈️
The Aerodrome Public Goods Fund has acquired and locked 262K+
$AERO as part of its programmatic market-aware buyback.
Nearly 190M AERO has been acquired and locked to date via the PGF, Flight School, and Relay.
This is the insight the "enterprise blockchain" wave missed:
Consortium chains = a cartel with extra steps
The winning architecture isn't "let's all run nodes together" - it's: keep your centralized infrastructure, but anchor trust to a truly neutral settlement layer.
Merkle roots. Validity proofs. Ethereum.
That's not a compromise - that's the optimal design. Scale where you need it, neutrality where it matters.
The rollup thesis isn't just for DeFi. It's the future of enterprise too.