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Aerodrome Finance is the leading decentralized exchange (DEX) on Base, the Ethereum Layer 2 blockchain developed by Coinbase. Launched in August 2023, Aerodrome rapidly grew to become the largest trading and liquidity protocol on the Base network, controlling over 60% of Base's DEX volume and at its peak holding more than $1.3 billion in total value locked (TVL).
Built by the same team behind Velodrome Finance on Optimism, now operating under the name Dromos Labs. Aerodrome is an evolution of Andre Cronje's ve(3,3) economic model, originally pioneered by Solidly on Fantom. Where Aerodrome differentiated itself was in its execution: superior user experience, a tighter incentive loop, and a native relationship with Coinbase's Base ecosystem that positioned it as the canonical liquidity layer of the chain from day one.
In simple terms, Aerodrome is where you go on Base to swap tokens, provide liquidity, and earn yield while its governance token, AERO, when locked as veAERO, gives you a share of every dollar of trading fees the protocol generates.
Before diving into the mechanics, here is why Aerodrome Finance commands serious attention in DeFi:
Current AERO price: $0.54 (June 2026)
Peak TVL: Over $1.3 billion (January 2026)
Monthly fees distributed to veAERO holders: $6.9 million
Annualized swap revenue: $82–200 million depending on the period measured
Cumulative all-time trading volume: Over $238 billion (mid-2025)
Share of Base DEX volume: 60–70%
Upcoming event: Merger with Velodrome Finance into a unified cross-chain DEX called Aero, targeted for July 2026
These are not vanity metrics. For a DEX that launched in 2023 on a chain that was itself barely a year old, Aerodrome's traction against established DeFi protocols like Uniswap and Aave on the same network is a meaningful signal of product-market fit.
To understand Aerodrome Finance, you must understand the economic model it runs on: ve(3,3).
The "(3,3)" refers to a game-theoretic incentive structure that originated in OlympusDAO, was adapted by Andre Cronje for Solidly, and was later refined by Velodrome and now Aerodrome. The core insight is elegant: if all token holders lock their tokens for governance (rather than sell), and the protocol directs fees back to those lockers, the system creates a self-reinforcing cycle of liquidity, volume, and value.
Here is how it works in Aerodrome's implementation:
Step 1 — Lock AERO to get veAERO. Token holders lock their AERO tokens for a period of up to four years. The longer the lock, the more veAERO (vote-escrowed AERO) they receive. veAERO is a non-transferable voting NFT; it cannot be sold, but it can be delegated.
Step 2 — Vote on liquidity pools. Every seven days, veAERO holders vote on which liquidity pools receive the next round of AERO emissions. The pools with the most votes attract the most new AERO, which in turn attracts more liquidity providers.
Step 3 — Collect 100% of protocol fees. This is Aerodrome's most radical feature. Unlike protocols that keep a portion of fees for the treasury, Aerodrome distributes 100% of trading fees to veAERO holders who voted in the previous epoch. If you voted for a pool that generated $500,000 in fees, you receive a proportional share of those $500,000.
Step 4 — Bribes amplify returns. External projects, especially new DeFi protocols launching on Base, can offer additional incentives (called "bribes") to veAERO voters to direct emissions toward their specific pools. This creates a permissionless liquidity auction, allowing any project to essentially purchase deep liquidity on Aerodrome without relying on Aerodrome's core team.
The result is a closed-loop system where liquidity providers earn fees and emissions, veAERO holders earn all fees plus bribes, and external projects earn deep liquidity. Everyone is incentivized to participate, and the protocol self-funds from its own activity.
Aerodrome Finance supports two types of liquidity pools:
Constant Product Pools (vAMM/sAMM): These are traditional AMM pools for uncorrelated and correlated asset pairs. Volatile pairs (like ETH/USDC) use the standard x*y=k formula. Stable pairs (like USDC/USDT) use a curve-based formula optimized for tightly pegged assets with minimal slippage.
Concentrated Liquidity Pools — Slipstream: Aerodrome's more advanced pool type, Slipstream, is a concentrated liquidity AMM similar to Uniswap V3. Liquidity providers can define price ranges within which their capital is active, leading to far greater capital efficiency. In a Slipstream pool, a liquidity provider can earn the same fees with significantly less capital, but they carry the risk of their position going out of range if prices move beyond their chosen bounds.
When you deposit assets into an aerodrome pool, you receive LP tokens representing your share. Every swap through the pool generates a fee (typically 0.01%–0.3% depending on the pool type), which accrues to LP holders. On top of swap fees, LP positions in voted pools also receive ongoing AERO emissions as additional yield.
Each liquidity pool has an associated "gauge," a smart contract that tracks votes and distributes AERO emissions proportionally to LP holders in that pool. If a pool's gauge receives 5% of all veAERO votes in a given week, it receives 5% of that week's total AERO emissions. This is the core mechanism through which veAERO governs the protocol's liquidity incentives.
AERO is the native token of Aerodrome Finance. It serves two functions: in its liquid form, AERO is distributed as rewards to liquidity providers, and in its locked form (veAERO), it represents a claim on all future protocol revenue and governance power.
Initial distribution: Weighted toward early Velodrome users, Base ecosystem participants, and protocol partners.
Emission schedule: AERO is emitted weekly through gauges to liquidity providers in voted pools; the emission rate decays over time.
Value accrual mechanism: 100% of swap fees go to veAERO voters; there is no protocol fee or treasury cut.
Anti-dilution rebases: veAERO holders receive periodic rebase emissions to offset dilution from new AERO entering circulation, proportional to their share of total locked supply.
The design deliberately rewards long-term participants. Short-term traders who receive AERO as LP rewards face a choice: sell into the market (diluting price) or lock into veAERO and become fee-earning governors. This tension is the behavioral engine of the VE(3,3) model.
When you lock AERO into veAERO:
Maximum lock: 4 years → maximum veAERO voting power
Minimum lock: 1 week → proportionally reduced voting power
Decay: Your veAERO power decays linearly over the lock period unless you extend it.
Earnings: 100% of fees from voted pools, paid weekly in the same tokens that generated the fees (e.g., USDC, ETH, WBTC)
Bribes: Additional tokens offered by external projects to incentivize your vote
This is one of the most searched questions about Aerodrome, and the answer matters for understanding what Aerodrome is and where it is headed.
Velodrome Finance is the premier DEX on Optimism, also built by Dromos Labs (formerly the Velodrome team), using the same ve(3,3) model. Velodrome launched first in 2022 on Optimism, and Aerodrome was created as its sister protocol for Base when that chain launched in 2023.
For most of 2023 and 2024, the two protocols operated independently, each with its own token (VELO and AERO), its own liquidity, and its own governance. But as Base's ecosystem grew dramatically faster than Optimism's, Aerodrome left Velodrome in the dust in terms of TVL, volume, and fee revenue.
In 2026, Dromos Labs announced the merger of both protocols into a single unified DEX called Aero, powered by a new underlying system called MetaDEX03. The merger is targeted for July 2026 and will:
Replace both AERO and VELO with a single new AERO token
Distribute new tokens 94.5% to existing AERO holders and 5.5% to VELO holders, based on each protocol's revenue contribution
Unify liquidity across Base, Optimism, and the broader OP Superchain
Expand to Ethereum mainnet for deeper blue-chip liquidity
Integrate with Circle's Arc network to leverage USDC's $73 billion circulation for frictionless on-ramps
The dual-engine design of MetaDEX03 (called AER and REV) is designed to capture more revenue inside the protocol and reduce operational leakage, building on lessons from both Aerodrome and Velodrome's operation since 2022.
For current AERO holders, this merger is a major positive catalyst: the unified platform consolidates two separate liquidity bases, two governance pools, and two fee streams into one dominant cross-chain venue.
Aerodrome's dominance on the base is not accidental. Several structural factors cemented its position:
Coinbase backing and ecosystem alignment: Base is Coinbase's Layer 2, and Aerodrome became the canonical DEX almost immediately after launch. Coinbase's existing user base of 100+ million retail accounts represents a potential liquidity runway that no other L2 has.
Slipstream's capital efficiency: The introduction of concentrated liquidity through Slipstream allowed Aerodrome to compete directly with Uniswap V3 on execution quality while still offering the superior incentive alignment of ve (3,3). This was a key moment; it meant Aerodrome was not sacrificing swap quality for governance features.
The bribe economy: Because Base attracted a wave of new DeFi projects in 2023 and 2024, Aerodrome's permissionless bribe market became a powerful tool for project launches. Every new stablecoin, LST, or DeFi protocol that launched on Base needed liquidity, and Aerodrome's bribe system made acquiring it straightforward, competitive, and transparent.
Network effects: Once the largest liquidity pools live on Aerodrome, routers and aggregators send their volume there, which generates more fees, which attracts more veAERO voters, which directs more emissions, which attracts more LP capital. This flywheel, once started, is difficult to disrupt.
Visit aerodrome.finance and connect your wallet (MetaMask, Coinbase Wallet, or any EVM-compatible wallet)
Ensure you are on the Base network (Chain ID: 8453)
Select the tokens you want to swap and their amount
Review the route and estimated output
Approve the token and confirm the swap
Navigate to the Liquidity tab.
Select a pool for standard pairs and choose a constant product pool; for active management, choose a Slipstream pool.
Deposit your token pair in the required ratio (or any range for Slipstream).
Receive LP tokens and deposit them into the corresponding gauge to start earning AERO emissions.
Navigate to the Vote or Lock tab on Aerodrome
Select the amount of AERO to lock and the lock duration (1 week to 4 years)
Confirm the lock; you will receive a veAERO NFT representing your position
Vote on your preferred liquidity pools each epoch (7 days)
Claim your earned fees and bribes at the end of each epoch
The most visible recent event is a sharp recovery in the AERO token price. After trading near its 2026 lows in the $0.40–$0.50 range through much of the market-wide correction, AERO posted a gain of over 26% in a single week in mid-June 2026, briefly breaking above $0.64 before consolidating around $0.54. The move outpaced the broader crypto market, which was down approximately 2.4% during the same window.
The catalyst was twofold: renewed attention from DeFi participants tracking the July 2026 Aero launch timeline, and a specific announcement on June 14 regarding the Predictive Allocation upgrade (detailed below). Social commentary on crypto Twitter/X noted that AERO was trading at a meaningful discount to the protocol's fundamental revenue metrics with annualized fees of $82M+ and a market cap well below that implied multiple which attracted both fundamental buyers and momentum traders.
The price action also coincided with a broader narrative forming around Base ecosystem tokens recovering faster than the market, as confidence in Coinbase's Layer 2 strategy stabilized following the worst of the ETF outflow-driven correction.
One of the most consequential operational events of 2026 for Aerodrome was the mandatory migration to MEV-resistant pools, initiated in May 2026 ahead of the July aero launch.
Maximal Extractable Value (MEV) refers to the profit that block producers or sophisticated bots can extract by reordering, inserting, or censoring transactions within a block. On a standard AMM like Aerodrome's existing pools, MEV bots can exploit predictable on-chain behavior particularly sandwich attacks, where a bot front-runs a large user trade to profit from the price impact at the direct expense of regular traders.
The new MEV-resistant pools introduced a redesigned dynamic fee module that temporarily lowers fees at the very start of each new block before restoring standard rates once organic trading activity occurs. This mechanism adapts to improvements in Ethereum and EVM infrastructure, particularly technologies like Flashblocks, which compress block times and change the economic landscape for MEV extraction.
The migration was not optional. Liquidity providers who failed to move their positions to the new MEV-resistant pools by the transition deadline became ineligible for AERO gauge emissions. This created an immediate, protocol-enforced incentive to upgrade, and the vast majority of active LPs completed the migration within the first two weeks of the announcement.
The migration also served as a technical rehearsal for the larger infrastructure transition to MetaDEX03 in July. By moving a significant portion of the protocol's total liquidity through a mandatory upgrade process, Dromos Labs stress-tested its migration infrastructure and built operational confidence ahead of the much larger Aero launch.
On June 14, 2026, Dromos Labs announced one of the most significant governance changes in Aerodrome's history: the Predictive Allocation model, set to go live as part of the Aero launch in July.
Under the current system, veAERO holders vote each week to direct AERO emissions to liquidity pools based on the prior week's trading activity. This is a backward-looking system: you are rewarding liquidity that already happened, which creates a lag between where volume actually is and where incentives flow.
The predictive allocation model flips this entirely. Instead of rewarding past behavior, it rewards participants for accurately forecasting where future liquidity demand will arise. veAERO holders who correctly predict which pools will see the most volume in the coming epoch earn a proportionally larger share of fees and emissions. Those who vote for pools that underperform their prediction receive less.
Several aspects of this design are worth unpacking:
It introduces a skill premium. Active, informed governance participants, whether human traders, DeFi analysts, or increasingly, AI agents, can earn more than passive participants by applying better information and reasoning to their allocation decisions. Dromos Labs explicitly noted that the model is designed to reward AI agents alongside human voters, signaling that Aerodrome is positioning itself as AI-native infrastructure.
It improves capital efficiency at the protocol level. Rather than liquidity chasing last week's volume (and potentially arriving too late to capture this week's fees), the prediction market mechanism pushes capital toward anticipated high-volume pools in advance, resulting in better price execution for traders and more predictable yields for LPs.
It changes the veAERO calculus. Under the current model, holding veAERO and voting for the highest-bribe pools are the dominant passive strategies. Under predictive allocation, active forecasting becomes a meaningful source of additional alpha, raising the ceiling for sophisticated participants while keeping the floor accessible for passive lockers.
For much of Aerodrome's operational life, Flight School was one of its signature community growth programs. The concept was elegant: each week, the Flight School wallet would vote with its accumulated veAERO and earn protocol fees, then use that revenue to buy AERO off the open market and lock it. Participants who locked more than 2,500 AERO into veAERO within a qualifying four-week class window received a share of these locked bonus rewards.
Over its lifetime, Flight School:
Distributed more than 60 million AERO in locked rewards
Grew the veAERO holder base to over 30,000 individual participants
Contributed meaningfully to AERO's circulating supply being held in locked form rather than sold
Flight School formally concluded on April 9, 2026, with its economic mandate and remaining assets merging into the newly created Momentum Fund, a consolidation of the Flight School and the earlier Public Goods Fund (PGF).
The Momentum Fund operates with a clear mandate: 100% of the revenue it generates is re-compounded into veAERO, growing the Aerodrome Foundation's protocol-aligned position over time. Unlike Flight School's rotating class model, the Momentum Fund is designed as a permanent, self-reinforcing capital engine one that grows continuously rather than in cohort cycles.
At the Aero launch in July, the Momentum Fund will become the primary coordination vehicle for aligning veAERO holders, external contributors, and the Foundation around shared ecosystem goals. The Fund will also prioritize building liquidity in key markets that the prediction market model identifies as strategically underserved.
In 2026, Aerodrome reported that its protocol-aligned buyback programs collectively acquired and locked more than 190 million AERO a figure that represents a meaningful portion of circulating supply permanently removed from selling pressure and redirected into governance.
A notable data point from the buyback activity was a 497,000 AERO single-transaction buyback reported in June 2026, signaling ongoing commitment to the model even as AERO's price was near its 2026 lows. Protocol buybacks of this scale at depressed prices are the same mechanism that creates long-term structural demand for a token acquiring more governance power per dollar when sentiment is poor.
The buybacks were executed through three overlapping programs:
Protocol Growth Fund: Directed fee revenue toward AERO acquisition and lock-up
Flight School (now concluded): Class-based locked reward distributions funded by trading fee buybacks
Relay: The automated voting and compounding system that continuously re-locks yield into veAERO rather than distributing it as liquid tokens
Taken together, these programs have created a substantial locked supply overhang that suppresses AERO's theoretical float, an important structural factor for any participant modeling AERO's future supply dynamics.
Relay is one of Aerodrome's most underappreciated product features and deserves dedicated attention given its growing importance.
For the majority of veAERO holders, active weekly governance participation is impractical. Voting every seven days, tracking bribe markets, monitoring pool performance, and re-optimizing allocation are time-intensive and missing an epoch means earning no fees for that week.
Relay solves this by acting as a fully automated veAERO management system. When you deposit your veAERO into a relay:
Your voting power is pooled with other Relay participants for greater collective influence
The Relay automatically votes each epoch based on optimized strategies (typically fee-maximizing or bribe-maximizing)
Rebases (the anti-dilution emissions for veAERO holders) are automatically claimed and compounded back into your locked position
You can choose to either auto-compound all yield into veAERO or convert a portion to liquid tokens for withdrawal
Relay effectively democratizes active veAERO management giving retail participants access to the same compounding efficiency and governance coordination that previously required constant monitoring or sophisticated tooling. As of mid-2026, Relay has become the dominant on-ramp for new veAERO lockers who want to participate in Aerodrome's fee economy without active management overhead.
While Aerodrome has been a base-exclusive protocol since its launch, the upcoming Aero merger represents its first meaningful expansion beyond a single chain. Two expansion targets are particularly significant:
Ethereum Mainnet: The merged Aero protocol will deploy on Ethereum mainnet to access deeper blue-chip liquidity for pairs like ETH/USDC, WBTC/ETH, and major stablecoin pairs. While Aerodrome's fee efficiency and ve(3,3) model will differentiate it from incumbents like Uniswap, competing directly on Ethereum's mainnet is a different order of magnitude than dominating a single L2. The outcome of this expansion will be one of the defining narratives for AERO through late 2026 and into 2027.
Circle's Arc Network: The integration with Circle's Arc blockchain a permissioned EVM chain designed for institutional USDC flows is arguably more strategically novel than the Ethereum expansion. Arc is designed to bridge regulated institutional capital into DeFi rails, using USDC's $73 billion circulation as its liquidity foundation. If Aero becomes Arc's primary DEX, it gains access to a class of institutional market participant who cannot currently access permissionless DeFi due to compliance requirements. This would be a structural expansion of Aerodrome's total addressable market far beyond the existing DeFi participant base.
Beyond protocol mechanics, Aerodrome Finance has maintained one of the more active presences in DeFi on social media. The @AerodromeFi X account has been a consistent source of protocol updates, migration announcements, and community education content throughout 2026. Notable community-facing content pieces have included detailed threads explaining the predictive allocation model, step-by-step migration guides for MEV-resistant pool transitions, and real-time epoch fee distribution data.
The Aerodrome Foundation's blog on Paragraph (paragraph.com/@aerodrome-foundation) has served as the primary long-form communication channel for major announcements including the Flight School conclusion, the Momentum Fund launch, and the Aero merger mechanics. These posts have been widely shared in DeFi research communities and cited by major crypto media outlets including CoinDesk, The Block, and CryptoBriefing as primary sources for protocol developments.
Aerodrome's community has also been active on governance forums, with meaningful debate around the token distribution for the AERO/VELO merger split particularly from VELO holders who argued the 94.5%/5.5% split undervalued Velodrome's historical contribution to the shared codebase. Dromos Labs addressed these concerns directly, publishing detailed revenue attribution data showing that Aerodrome generates over 96% of combined protocol fees and that the 94.5%/5.5% split was actually favorable to VELO holders relative to pure revenue weighting.
Like all DeFi protocols, Aerodrome carries real risks that any participant should understand:
Smart contract risk: Aerodrome's contracts have been audited, but no audit eliminates risk entirely. A vulnerability in the AMM or gauge contracts could result in loss of funds.
Impermanent loss: Liquidity providers in volatile pools face impermanent loss if the price ratio between their deposited tokens diverges significantly. Slipstream positions face amplified IL if prices move out of range.
AERO token dilution: New AERO is emitted weekly to liquidity providers. If the market does not absorb this selling pressure, the AERO price may decline, eroding the real value of LP rewards and veAERO positions.
veAERO lock risk: Locking AERO into veAERO is irreversible for the lock duration. If AERO price falls or you need liquidity, you cannot exit your position early in the standard model.
Bribe dependency: A significant portion of veAERO yield comes from external bribes. If the Base ecosystem sees reduced project launches or lower competition for liquidity, bribe income for veAERO holders may decline.
Merger execution risk: The planned Aero merger is a significant technical event. Any delay, migration issue, or smart contract bug during the MetaDEX03 launch could disrupt liquidity and token value.
The remainder of 2026 is the most consequential period in Aerodrome's short history. Three developments stand out:
1. The Aero Merger (July 2026): The unification of Aerodrome and Velodrome into a single cross-chain DEX is the defining event. If executed well, it consolidates two of the most successful ve(3,3) protocols into a single liquidity powerhouse with reach across Base, Optimism, and potentially Ethereum mainnet.
2. Circle Arc Integration: The planned integration with Circle's Arc network, a USDC-native payment and settlement infrastructure, gives Aero access to institutional-grade fiat-to-crypto rails. This could bring a class of institutional liquidity providers to the platform who currently sit on the sidelines of DeFi.
3. MetaDEX03 and the Prediction Market Model: The new underlying system replaces weekly backward-looking vote incentives with a forward-looking prediction market for liquidity demand. Participants who accurately forecast where liquidity will be needed are rewarded, creating a more efficient and adaptive capital allocation system and potentially much higher returns for skilled veAERO participants.
By every measurable standard available in mid-2026, yes. Aerodrome Finance holds the largest share of Base's DEX volume, the deepest liquidity across the most important token pairs, and the most sophisticated governance system of any AMM on the chain. It outlasted challengers, outgrew its sister protocol, and is now preparing to merge into something larger than either.
For DeFi participants looking to engage with the Base ecosystem, whether as traders seeking tight spreads, LPs seeking sustainable yield, or governance participants looking for a meaningful share of protocol revenue Aerodrome Finance is the starting point, not an afterthought.
The AERO token, at its current price of $0.54, is trading well below its highs and well below what a protocol generating tens of millions of dollars in annual fee revenue might command in a normalized market. Whether that represents value or risk depends on your read of the DeFi cycle, the Aero merger execution, and the broader macro environment.
What is not in question is that Aerodrome Finance has built something real, used by real people, and processing real volume, which puts it in rare company in an industry full of protocols that never moved beyond a whitepaper.
Aerodrome Finance is a decentralized token exchange built on the Base blockchain. Users can swap cryptocurrencies, earn yield by providing liquidity, and earn a share of all trading fees by locking AERO tokens into the veAERO governance system. It is the largest DEX on Base by volume and TVL.
AERO is the native utility and governance token of Aerodrome Finance. In its liquid form, it is earned by liquidity providers as a reward. When locked into veAERO, it grants voting rights over which pools receive AERO emissions and entitles holders to 100% of the protocol's trading fee revenue.
veAERO (vote-escrowed AERO) is a non-transferable NFT you receive when you lock AERO tokens for a chosen period (up to 4 years). veAERO grants voting power in Aerodrome's weekly governance epochs, directs AERO emissions to liquidity pools, and earns you a direct share of all trading fees and external bribes.
Aerodrome generates revenue from swap fees charged on every trade executed through its pools. Fees range from 0.01% to 0.3% depending on pool type. Unlike most protocols, 100% of these fees are distributed to veAERO holders; none are kept by the protocol treasury.
Aerodrome's smart contracts have been audited by reputable security firms. However, all DeFi protocols carry smart contract risk, and Aerodrome is not insured. Users should only deposit funds they can afford to lose and understand that impermanent loss, token price risk, and lock-up risk are inherent to participation.
Uniswap is a global DEX operating across multiple chains with no native token governance over fees. Aerodrome is base-native with a ve(3,3) governance model where locked token holders vote on liquidity incentives and earn 100% of swap fees. Aerodrome has surpassed Uniswap in volume on Base, specifically.
Dromos Labs announced the merger of Aerodrome (Base) and Velodrome (Optimism) into a single unified DEX called Aero, targeted for July 2026. A new AERO token will replace both AERO and VELO, distributed 94.5% to existing AERO holders. The merged protocol will serve as the primary liquidity hub for the OP Superchain.
Slipstream is Aerodrome's concentrated liquidity pool type, similar to Uniswap V3. It allows liquidity providers to concentrate their capital within specific price ranges, dramatically improving capital efficiency and reducing slippage for traders at the cost of requiring more active management to stay in-range.
Aerodrome Finance peaked at over $1.3 billion in TVL in January 2026, representing approximately 60–70% of all DEX liquidity on the Base network. Current TVL as of mid-2026 is approximately $573 million following the broader DeFi market correction.
This is not financial advice. AERO's value is tied to Aerodrome's trading volume and fee revenue. Factors in its favor include a dominant Base ecosystem position, the upcoming Aero merger, and the 100% fee-to-veAERO model. Risks include AERO dilution from ongoing emissions, DeFi market cycles, and merger execution uncertainty. Always conduct your own research.
AERO can be purchased on Aerodrome itself (by swapping ETH or USDC on Base), as well as on centralized exchanges and other DEXs that list AERO. You will need a wallet compatible with the Base network and ETH for gas fees.
Aerodrome Finance is deployed on Base, the Ethereum layer 2 blockchain developed and maintained by Coinbase. Base uses optimistic rollup technology and is part of the OP Superchain.
