BASE’S NEW FANBASE: Simply because the Friend.tech fad faded, sapping among the post-launch adoration of Coinbase’s new Base layer-2 blockchain (as chronicled in final week’s The Protocol), there’s a brand new child on the town: Aerodrome Finance. The platform, which markets itself because the Base ecosystem’s “premiere liquidity engine and hub,” has rapidly attracted greater than $170 million of TVL or “complete worth locked,” serving to to push the general TVL of protocols on Base to more than $400 million. The key? In keeping with the e-newsletter Wu Blockchain, the venture’s “native token, $AERO, provides liquidity mining rewards with an annualized yield close to 1,000% without compounding.” That’s loads, even in crypto. Aerodrome’s TVL has now exceeded – “flippened” in crypto jargon – the $158 million on Velodrome, Aerodome’s predecessor venture, which sits on the older layer-2 chain Optimism. Is it sustainable? “Cash doesn’t materialize out of skinny air,” Wu Blockchain famous dryly, so “it’s price contemplating when this spiral would possibly come to an finish.” (A Base zit: On Tuesday, the community suffered a “major outage” that lasted slightly over three hours, its greatest glitch for the reason that launch last month.)
