What Aerodrome Finance governs
Aerodrome Finance (AERO) is a DeFi protocol governance token, currently ranked 80th by market capitalization among the assets we track. Rather than being money itself, Aerodrome Finance is a claim on a financial protocol. Its worth tracks the fees, liquidity, and usage of the application beneath it far more than any monetary narrative.
Aerodrome Finance (AERO) is a decentralized finance platform that focuses on enhancing liquidity and yield generation in the cryptocurrency space. It empowers users to optimize their assets through various innovative financial tools and products.
How value is supposed to accrue
Usage drives everything here: more deposits and more volume mean more fees, and the token's value depends on whether those fees flow back to AERO rather than evaporating to liquidity providers alone.
Background & fundamentals
In sector terms it is most often filed under Base Ecosystem, Decentralized Exchange (DEX), and DeFi.
Where Aerodrome Finance sits in the market
With AERO near $0.4788, Aerodrome Finance carries a market capitalization of $429.46M. Around $10.37M changes hands across exchanges in a typical 24-hour window. That is a turnover of about 2.42% of the float — a healthy level of activity for an asset this size.
Aerodrome Finance carries no fixed maximum supply; issuance follows a programmatic schedule rather than a hard cap. AERO remains -79% beneath its all-time high of $2.33, the kind of gap that historically takes a full cycle or a fresh catalyst to close. Measured from its all-time low of $0.2724, AERO is up +76%.
What the price history shows
Across timeframes, AERO shows 24-hour +4.17%, 7-day -8.53%, 30-day -10.85%, 1-year -26.18%. AERO is currently trading near the bottom of its 366-day range (around the 10th percentile of recent closes).
Volatility profile
Recent action puts Aerodrome Finance in the High-volatility band — it has been actively trading, with daily moves that would be unusual in traditional equities. Over the last 30 days the move totals -10.85%, a useful input for stop placement and position sizing.
How to evaluate a DeFi token like Aerodrome Finance
The honest checklist for AERO is short:
- Protocol revenue — fees the application actually earns, and whether any of it reaches AERO holders.
- Total value locked — how much capital trusts the protocol — and how sticky it is versus mercenary yield.
- Token utility — whether AERO is load-bearing (governance over real value, fee rights) or decorative.
This page pulls live market data, on-chain stats where available, exchange-by-exchange volume, and our forecast model into one view so you can work through those questions in a single place. None of it is investment advice — it is a structured starting point for your own research.
