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DACM is a digital asset investment manager active across the crypto ecosystem through a fundamentals-first lens. The @DigiAssetFund Liquid Venture Fund has market-acquired AERO and locked its position as veAERO, voting weekly to earn its share of fees.

four Coinbase stock wrappers now trade on Aerodrome, but with supply at $7.3m, the launch should add little near-term demand for liquid AERO. fees go to veAERO voters, so traders must keep paying without subsidies and holders must lock AERO before the launch supports the token.

from here, AERO gets the clearest direct upside from Coinbase's four Base stock tokens if traders generate sustained volume on Aerodrome. veAERO voters receive qualifying fees from gauge-staked stock/USDC liquidity. the four pools hold about $2.84m gross, with nearly all of it in four active gauges. the tokens represent $4.58m of equity, just 0.1846% of distributed tokenized-stock value, so the current scale is too small to drive a broad AERO move.

2025–2026, imo, is the period that showed the clearest value of tokens backed by real revenue and real value capture. Thousands of projects disappeared when attention and liquidity moved elsewhere. But protocols with real products, real users and real revenue are still here. And more importantly, some of them are finding ways to return that revenue to the token. Look at the current numbers: – @HyperliquidX $HYPE: ~$60M holder revenue in 30D, with most trading fees flowing into HYPE buybacks – @CantonNetwork $CC: ~$49M in 30D, with network fees used to burn CC – @trondao $TRX: ~$24M in 30D, with network fees continuously burning TRX – @Pumpfun $PUMP: ~$24M returned to holders in 30D through token buybacks – @uniswap $UNI: ~$16M in 30D, with protocol fees now flowing into UNI buyback/burn – @ponsdotfamily $PONS: ~$15M in 30D, with a large part of revenue used for buyback and burn – @aeroxyz $AERO: ~$14M in 30D, with trading fees distributed to veAERO voters – @LaunchOnSF $STONK: ~$10M in holder revenue, mainly through market buybacks – @PancakeSwap $CAKE: ~$5M in 30D, with revenue from multiple products used to buy back and burn CAKE – @Aster_DEX aster-2:native: ~$4.6M in 30D, with most platform fees currently used to buy back ASTER For me, the more interesting model is: Real users → real fees → real revenue → real token capture. I think this will become one of the metrics worth watching much more closely in the next phase of the market. NFA.

Royals DeFi Investigation - @AerodromeFi / $AERO in 2026 - The Protocol That's Printing Cash Flow Regardless If you caught my video on Aerodrome earlier this year, where I spoke about some core fundamentals like liquidity providing on the platform, I want to take it a step further today & keep it very similar to my recent @pendle_fi recap, as this is also an analysis of what actually happened in Q1 and Q2 2026 for the leading DEX on Base. The year started weak on paper. Q1 2026 came in at around $18.3M in protocol revenue, down 46% from $34.5M in Q4 2025 & Q2 followed with ~$16.1M, a further 12% decline quarter over quarter. While that looks significant, it definitely reflects broader market conditions rather than structural weakness within the protocol. TVL followed a similar trend, sitting around $345M in Q1 and declining to roughly $310M in Q2, but besides that, activity remained strong, with monthly volumes consistently above $9B showing that underlying demand for liquidity on Base held up most of the time. On the token side of things, AERO is currently trading around $0.51 with a market cap of $484M, but price action across Q1 and Q2 saw two notable drawdowns. The first occurred at the start of the year, the second in early June, where AERO dropped from around ~$0.45 to ~$0.30. Both moves looked very similar & were followed by relatively fast recoveries, with the token pushing back toward $0.50, which is roughly where it trades now. Structurally, Aerodrome’s position has not weakened, more the opposite, as it continues to dominate Base DEX liquidity in a way comparable to how durable Uniswap controlled Ethereum mainnet in earlier cycles. What is changing, are slowly the tokenomics & as well the expansion of the system is an ongoing priority. Especially the @VelodromeFi merge, which was announced in late 2025, seems to be part of this upcoming change. For now the legacy ve33 model remains fully active for now, with AERO locking for veAERO, weekly gauge voting, emissions distributed accordingly, with fee accrual and bribes continuing to flow to veAERO holders, but the already announced switch to sAERO, in relation to the merge with Velodrome, could very likely be implemented this month, so definitely something to look forward to & be excited about. On top of that, more than 190M AERO, which is more than 20% of the circulating supply, has already been bought back and locked through programs funded by protocol revenue such as the Public Goods Fund, Flight School, and Relay, which introduces not only a strong narrative for potential future investors, but as well establishes consistent mechanisms that remove supply directly from the market. The result is a shift away from purely emission driven tokenomics toward supply reduction backed by real cash flow, a narrative which @HyperliquidX definitely made big in the last months. Looking ahead to Q3 and Q4, there are some things which could push the needle much further for Aerodrome, as the mainnet expansion, which will test cross chain liquidity at scale, particularly with MEV internalization live and also very much the upcoming expansions to Circle’s Arc environment puts Aerodrome again into direct competition with Uniswap, that’s why I am personally excited to see how this will play out for them. But as mentioned, most importantly is the adoption of sAERO imo, which will determine whether the token fully transitions into a more active instrument or if the veAERO will be more sustainable in the end. As a frequent user of the Base chain, it is even more exciting to see, Aerodrome expanding beyond base & positioning itself as a unified liquidity layer across major chains, with clear mechanisms to capture and retain value at the token level. What do you think & are you bullish on $AERO further going into the future? Aerodrome.