Leading Base DEX Aerodrome Merges Into Aero in Major Overhaul

Dromos Labs, the core developer behind decentralized exchanges (DEX) Aerodrome on Base and Velodrome on Optimism, introduced a serious overhaul of its decentralized alternate infrastructure on Wednesday with the launch of Aero, a unified buying and selling system that can exchange and merge its current platforms throughout each networks, and broaden to different Ethereum chains.

Aerodrome is presently the main alternate on Base by quantity and value, and with Aero’s enlargement to Ethereum mainnet in Q2 2026, in addition to Circle’s Arc, Dromos Labs goals to place the platform as a central liquidity hub for the broader ecosystem.

Aero, which is able to carry quicker and cheaper charges to the chain, will give attention to Base as its central hub whereas increasing liquidity and buying and selling capabilities to different chains.

“Simply because the world got here on-line, it’s now approaching the chain. Aero is on the forefront of a monetary system that’s higher, quicker and cheaper than the incumbent,” mentioned Alexander Cutler, the CEO of Dromos Labs.

Along with Aero, the corporate unveiled METADEX03, the newest model of its MetaDEX working system. The improve introduces a dual-engine structure designed to scale back worth leakage and return all protocol income to customers. A standout function of the improve is Slipstream V3, which embeds a Most Extractable Worth (MEV) public sale straight into the AMM, permitting the protocol to internalize worth usually captured by arbitrage bots.

The corporate mentioned Aero and METADEX03 will push DeFi past conventional financing in effectivity and accessibility as extra establishments and retail customers transfer on-chain.

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