Buy AERO with UpTradeBuy Aerodrome Finance with a dedicated broker handling the trade from your first question through to settlement into institutional custody.
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General considerations not advice. How you act on them depends on your own circumstances.
Crypto is volatile Aerodrome’s price can move sharply in both directions sometimes within a single trading session. It’s an asset class to approach with capital you’re prepared to see fluctuate in value. General information only not a prediction or recommendation.
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Where it’s held matters Crypto bought on an exchange typically sits on the exchange’s balance sheet. Institutional custody holds your AERO separately a structural difference worth understanding before you buy.
How custody worksBroker vs exchange Buying Aerodrome Finance through a broker works differently from a self-serve exchange order book. Understanding how the two differ helps you choose the path that fits how you want to buy.
See the differenceLarger trades are different Buying a significant amount of Aerodrome in one go can move an exchange’s order book against you. OTC execution is built for size filling large orders without that market impact.
About OTC tradingAerodrome FinanceA plain-English look at what it is, how it works, and what it's used for, so you can understand the asset before you buy.
Aerodrome Finance (AERO) is the leading decentralised exchange and liquidity hub on Base, the Ethereum Layer-2 network built by Coinbase. Launched on August 28, 2023 without any venture capital backing or token sale, Aerodrome is built on the ve(3,3) tokenomics model — a vote-escrow design originally pioneered by Andre Cronje and used by Velodrome Finance on the Optimism network, with which Aerodrome shares its underlying technology and development team.
As an automated market maker, Aerodrome provides the liquidity pools that let users swap tokens on Base. Liquidity providers deposit pairs of tokens into these pools and earn a share of trading fees in return. What differentiates Aerodrome is how those fees, and the AERO emissions used to attract liquidity, are distributed. AERO holders can lock their tokens for between one week and four years to receive veAERO a non-transferable, vote-escrowed position represented as an NFT. Longer lock periods grant proportionally more voting power. Every week, veAERO holders vote on which liquidity pools receive that week’s AERO emissions. In return for voting for a pool, a veAERO holder receives 100% of the trading fees generated by that pool, plus any additional ‘bribes’ extra incentives that protocols can offer to attract votes toward their pools. This creates a self-reinforcing cycle often called a flywheel: protocols that want deep liquidity on Base bribe veAERO holders to direct emissions to their pools, veAERO holders earn fees and bribes for voting, deeper liquidity attracts more trading volume, and that volume generates more fees. Aerodrome has distributed over $295 million to veAERO holders since launch, and currently captures more than 60% of all DEX trading volume on Base.
AERO is used to provide liquidity incentives emissions are distributed to liquidity pools based on weekly veAERO votes, encouraging liquidity providers to deepen specific pools. Locking AERO as veAERO grants governance rights over which pools receive emissions, plus a direct claim on 100% of trading fees and any bribes associated with the pools a holder votes for making veAERO both a governance tool and a yield-bearing position. As the dominant liquidity venue on Base, AERO’s relevance is closely tied to overall activity on Base when the network sees increased trading volume or new protocol launches, Aerodrome typically captures a large share of the resulting swap activity and fee revenue.
• Dominant DEX on Base. Aerodrome captures over 60% of all decentralised exchange trading volume on Base, Coinbase's Ethereum Layer-2 network.
• ve(3,3) tokenomics. AERO holders lock tokens for up to four years as veAERO, a vote-escrowed position that grants governance power and a share of protocol fees.
• 100% fee distribution. veAERO holders who vote for a liquidity pool receive 100% of that pool's trading fees and any additional incentives offered by protocols competing for votes.
• No fixed maximum supply. AERO launched with 500 million tokens and continues to grow through weekly emissions that decay over time, with circulating supply around 948 million as of mid-2026.
• Planned Velodrome merger. A 2026 merger with Velodrome aims to unify AERO and VELO into a single token operating across Base and the Optimism Superchain under METADEX03.
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