Dromos Labs announced Predictive Allocation for Aero on June 14, replacing the weekly gauge-vote system on its unified DEX with a model where participants forecast future trading demand and direct incentives toward those pools rather than toward last week's best performers. The upgrade targets July.
Aero consolidates two of the OP Stack's largest liquidity engines (Aerodrome on Base and Velodrome on Optimism) under a single AERO token governing Base and Optimism, with Ethereum mainnet and Circle's permissioned Arc chain targeted for deployment. The consolidation issued no new tokens: VELO holders received 5.5% of the combined AERO supply; existing AERO holders retained the remaining 94.5%. "Every action creates value that flows back to one place, the token," said Luis de la Cerda, Aerodrome Foundation executive director.
Dromos Labs announced Aero in November 2025, targeting a Q2 2026 go-live on Ethereum mainnet and Circle's Arc, which would be the first time either protocol has run directly on L1. The exact deployment date has not been confirmed. "Aero has been designed to be the first DEX to effectively service the entire Ethereum network," CEO Alexander Cutler said at the time. At the November announcement, combined TVL stood at $536 million: Aerodrome at $480 million, Velodrome at $56 million.
Aerodrome's current Base TVL stands at $304.38 million, with $554.22 million in 24-hour DEX volume, per DefiLlama. AERO trades at $0.48 on approximately $41.8 million in 24-hour volume.