Aerodrome’s AERO Token Skyrockets—Is Ethereum’s Layer-2 Base Making a Comeback?
AERO, the native token of Aerodrome Finance, is defying gravity with a parabolic surge—just as Ethereum’s Layer-2 Base chain shows signs of renewed activity. Traders are piling in, betting on a symbiotic rally between the decentralized exchange and its scaling solution host.
Behind the pump: Aerodrome’s ve(3,3) model—a liquidity magnet—is pulling in yield farmers while Base’s transaction volumes quietly rebound. Coincidence? The market’s voting with its wallet.
Cynics whisper this is just another ’infrastructure play’ pump before the inevitable VC unlock dump. But for now, the charts don’t lie—AERO’s trajectory looks more like a SpaceX launch than a stablecoin.
Past: Foundation and early development (2023-2025)
2023: Launch and early growth
Aerodrome Finance was launched in August 2023 as a fork of Velodrome Finance, specifically for the Base network. The project focused on creating a… pic.twitter.com/gRPl4CLRhr
— CryptoJournaal (@CryptoJournaal) March 16, 2025
To sum things up, Aerodrome Finance is a platform that combines an advanced automated market maker (AMM). With a governance model to ensure an enhanced trading experience.
Recently, AERO, Aerodrome’s native token, has made a dramatic shift with a more than 55% increase in the past month.
The project’s market capitalisation as well as the 24h trading volume have not stopped growing. With an impressive 72% increase in market activity and almost $600 million TV. AERO is currently trading for $0.7073 per coin, but traders are dreaming that the token is showing signs of a bullish reversal, with target prices up to $1.80.
$AERO showing signs of a bullish reversal on the weekly!
After a long downtrend, the recent green candles and MACD crossover hint at growing momentum. If volume picks up, we could see a solid rally.
Target 1: $0.85 – immediate resistance
Target 2: $1.20 – previous… pic.twitter.com/iGezPYKJcq
— TheBitcoinRaja.base.eth
(@thebitcoinraja) April 30, 2025
Aerodrome crypto plays a crucial role in the Base ecosystem and has become an attractive destination for both traders and developers. Coinbase, a massive and trusted exchange, backs the Base network. Other key features are the low fees, scalability, and Ethereum compatibility, as part of Optimism’s OP Stack.
With more and more people creating on Base and projects like Aerodrome flourishing, the building momentum is no surprise. We might be witnessing the start of Base’s next chapter, and Aerodrome’s success is only the beginning.
Layer 2 Base on Ethereum Poised to Succeed
In recent years, Ethereum has experienced a lot of limitations in the form of high fees and low throughput. That is why projects like Base come up with mechanisms that improve speed and reduce costs while leveraging .cwp-coin-chart svg path { stroke-width: 0.65 !important; } Price Volume in 24h Price 7d security.
Total Value Secured (TVS) is amassing over $31.2 billion by May 1, 2025, with a year-over-year increase of 8.12%. The base network alone has $12.5 billion TVS. That being said, this makes Ethereum more accessible to participants and devs to build.
proud that @base is now stage 1 — and #1 by TVS
but it’s still day one. time to bring the world onchain. pic.twitter.com/LcVAEPZfgr
— jesse.base.eth (@jessepollak) May 1, 2025
Another key feature of Base network is almost instant transaction processing. Usually, on Ethereum, it takes a couple of minutes or longer. With L2, it takes a couple of seconds which reduce traffic congestion greatly.
Some critics believe that fragmenting the ETH ecosystem into many L-2s could lead to some problems. From interoperability challenges, security, to user confusion. In the end, one thing is clear, and that is the future of Ethereum is rollups. Both optimistic and zero-knowledge (ZK) are the preferred choices by consumers and creators.
