Aerodrome and Velodrome merge into Aero, targeting a $63 billion TVL market
Aerodrome and Velodrome are being combined under a new brand called Aero, with both pieces describing the move as a merger involving the two protocols. One piece says the target market is a $63 billion TVL opportunity, while the other says the planned combination is meant to connect liquidity and incentive governance across Base, Optimism, and Ethereum mainnet.
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Users and liquidity providers on Base, Optimism, and Ethereum mainnet are the groups most directly affected by this change today. The two protocols are being tied together under Aero, and that puts their liquidity and incentive design in the same structure rather than separate ones.
In practice, the main change is that Aerodrome and Velodrome are no longer being presented as standalone pieces of infrastructure in the plan described here. What remains the same is that both are still being discussed in relation to Ethereum-aligned chains and liquidity, but the new setup adds a shared Aero identity and governance link.
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| 18 days ago | Tom Lee's Bitmine Buys Another $47M of ETH, Taking It to 4.9% of Ethereum Supply event | 1 actors in common · 2 news media |