Aerodrome Finance, the largest decentralized exchange on Coinbase’s Base network, is rolling out a series of platform upgrades that fundamentally change how its liquidity pools operate. The reason: a unified cross-chain DEX called Aero is set to launch in July 2026, and the current infrastructure needs a facelift before it can support the ambition.
Pool participants are being told to migrate their liquidity to new MEV-resistant pools if they want to keep earning emissions. In English: if you’re providing liquidity on Aerodrome and you don’t move your funds to the upgraded pools, you stop getting paid.
From two protocols to one token
This migration is the practical fallout of a merger announced back in November 2025. Dromos Labs, the team behind both projects, revealed plans to combine Aerodrome and Velodrome, its Optimism-based sibling, into a single cross-chain DEX operating under the Aero name.
The move consolidates two separate token economies into one. The new AERO token will absorb aspects of the previous VELO token, creating unified tokenomics across chains.
