Project
Aerodrome Finance is a decentralized exchange and liquidity protocol on the Base blockchain, serving as its primary trading and liquidity hub.
Citrini Research's 79-page report argues fee-collecting platforms and protocols could gain more from tokenization than bitcoin or ether. Even if bitcoin and ether set new highs, the report says, there are better ways to bet on tokenization.
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The oracle deal is the part that lets Apple and NVIDIA tokens be liquidated, which is the part that lets them be borrowed against. The wrapper sits in Abu Dhabi, and US residents are excluded.
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Arkham valued Hunter Biden's Base token at three million times the pool it traded in. The sell-side flows anyone can actually count come to about $3.2m, and that is the size of the real transfer.
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Coin Metrics puts Aerodrome at about half of Base's peak USDC transfer volume, with a single WETH/USDC pool at 32%, and the report says vote-directed AERO rewards and bribes to voters hold that liquidity in place.
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Onchain equity venues cleared roughly $1.01bn across the closed Saturday and Sunday, then $398.3m on the holiday Monday. Per day that is about $505m against Friday's $1.02bn, and Robinhood Chain took the biggest single share.
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Volume that size on a float that small makes SPCXc an arbitrage venue before it is a place to hold a position, and every desk allowed to trade it sits outside the United States.
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Coinbase's layer-2 traded $100 million of tokenized Nvidia, Apple, Alphabet and Meta in one session, 26 days after the last time it managed that, and a single exchange has routed more than 77% of the flow since August.
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Arkham marked $144bn of fully diluted value two minutes after LAPTOP launched and $5bn at the half hour, and with the SEC's February meme-coin statement in force, the only cops left for the buyers are fraud cops.
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Traders pushed about $103 million through pools that opened with under $1 million of depth, a ratio that reads more like a basis trade than equity demand, and every token in it settles against one custodian.
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A $2.8 billion day on decentralized exchanges annualizes to under 2% of Circle's quarterly settlement flow. The concentration worth pricing sits in the chain, not the chart.
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