Aerodrome and Velodrome Merge Into Aero Across Seven Chains Including Robinhood
By Node Zero
October 22, 2026
Desk of the Day — Protocol Pulse
Aerodrome and Velodrome have merged to launch Aero, an onchain spot exchange live across seven networks: Ethereum mainnet, Base, Robinhood Chain, Ink, OP Mainnet, Arc, and Arbitrum. The project’s own launch post sets go-live at 8:00 PM EDT October 21, 2026 (00:00 UTC October 22), with upgrade portals opening on aerodrome.finance and velodrome.finance. The Block reported the same seven-chain list and token migration. This is a Dev Pulse protocol chapter — MetaDEX unification, conversion rates, and new allocation rails — not a marketplace fee change and not a custody beat.
Token and supply facts from the Aero Upgrade Hub and launch post: liquid AERO upgrades 1:1 to the new AERO; liquid VELO upgrades at 0.044 AERO per VELO; veAERO / veVELO upgrade to sAERO (staked AERO). New AERO supply is split 94.5% Aerodrome / 5.5% Velodrome (matching each protocol’s share of combined revenue in the 52 weeks before Aero was announced); expected max new AERO at launch ~2.127B. The project says the entire upgraded supply goes to existing AERO/VELO holders — no venture backing or token sale dilution. Aero claims Aerodrome held 58% of Base DEX volume and Velodrome 60% of OP Mainnet DEX volume in Q3, and that the seven launch networks together handle about $120 billion a month in DEX trading.
Product stack named at launch: Predictive Allocation (sAERO holders stake and continuously direct AERO rewards toward markets they expect to earn revenue); Metaswaps (bridge/route/swap in one transaction filled by Aero’s own onchain liquidity); Slipstream V3 (dynamic fees that rise when markets move fast, plus MEV capture on supported L2s). 100% of exchange revenue from pools is directed to sAERO holders who allocate rewards. Contracts audited by Sherlock and Chainsecurity across five engagements plus a three-week Sherlock contest; a Sherlock bug bounty goes live on launch day. Dromos Labs founder/CEO Alex Cutler said the model that won on Base and OP Mainnet is now aimed at larger onchain markets, with Robinhood Chain among the seven launch venues.
For NFT and marketplace desks, the useful cut is unified liquidity spanning Base, OP, Arc, Ink, Arbitrum, Ethereum mainnet, and Robinhood Chain — the same settlement neighborhood as tokenized-stock and private-payments LNs — plus Metaswaps that keep fills inside Aero’s pools rather than off-chain bridges. Do not treat VELO’s 0.044 rate as a market price; it is the announced ownership split converted to a per-token upgrade rate. Do not treat “won Base / OP volume” as a claim about NFT floors.
Prior Alpenglow Solana consensus LNs stay a separate client/consensus file; today’s beat is the Aerodrome–Velodrome MetaDEX merge going live with seven-chain scope and sAERO allocation. Gloam private payments on Robinhood Chain stays its own settlement chapter.
Next protocol beat: Watch whether upgrade portals and app.aero.xyz keep liquid AERO/VELO and ve→sAERO migrations flowing without pause, whether Predictive Allocation and Metaswaps show measurable cross-chain fill volume in the first days, and whether Sherlock bounty findings force emergency patches — the desk cares about live gauges, conversion finality, and cross-chain swap receipts, not the seven-chain slogan alone.
Bottom line: Aerodrome and Velodrome merged into Aero across seven chains — AERO upgrades 1:1, VELO at 0.044, ve positions to sAERO — with Predictive Allocation and Metaswaps live at the Oct 21 / 00:00 UTC Oct 22 window.
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