$100,000,000 of Crypto Being Traded on Base via Aerodrome

$100,000,000 of Crypto Being Traded on Base via Aerodrome

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all right ladies and gentlemen welcome
back to another episode of the crypto
101 podcast I’m your host Bryce as
always joined by my good buddy my best
pal uh Mr Brendan vean uh Brendan how
are you doing over there uh in Sun
Florida I’m doing great how can you not
be doing great the having is just over a
week away but that’s not what we’re here
to talk about today we’re here to talk
about something a little bit different
equally as exciting but we’re going to
talk about the bass network we’ve seen
everyone asking everybody’s wanted to
know a little bit more about bass so we
brought in one of the lead projects from
the bass ecosystem with Aerodrome and
man I could not be more excited yeah uh
I’m really really honored Alex for you
to be here uh core contributor at
Aerodrome uh thanks for joining us and
how are you doing today doing very well
how are you guys not too shabby not too
shabby um well cool Alex we want to dive
into Aerodrome Brendan kind of prefaced
it you know this is the the really the
leading uh decentralized exchange on the
Bas Network and for those who are at
home listening what’s the bass network
this is the really the layer two uh
blockchain sort of decentralized network
that coinbase the publicly listed
company the coinbase that you have on
your phone they sort of incubated this
they launched it um and so there is no
base token um that’s a associated with
this network I think that’s also
important to understand don’t go home
and go Google how to buy base token and
get scammed um but we we wanted to get a
deep dive on this and um we we decided
you know there’s no better place to go
than aerody Drome um but before we dive
into what aerod Drome is we want to get
to know um Alex um so tell us you know
you know a little bit about your
background and how you found yourself uh
building this you know incredibly
successful wildly explosive move here
um how’ you how’d you get started here
yeah of course um thanks so much for
having me uh I feel like it’s not an
atypical story for for people in crypto
and defi but you know my career Journey
has been anything other than than a
straight line um I worked in politics
and campaigns for a period um got really
burnt out doing that um went to work uh
in big tech for a while um decided I I
wanted to to mix things up um went into
sort of the Consulting and agency world
for a little bit and it was at that
point in my life that uh you know I I
had a friend whispering in my ear about
crypto it was it was defi
summer uh he he said the magic words for
me at that moment which was hey uh I’m
quitting my very good job because I
don’t need to work anymore all I’m doing
these days is yield farming and I was
like okay all right I’ve gota I’ve got
to start playing around right and then
you start down the rabbit hole you know
you buy some eth you move it on chain
you start providing liquidity you earn
rewards then what do I go do with these
tokens right you lock them you
participate in thousands and other
systems and of course uh before I knew
it uh it was all that I wanted to do you
know I I brought all my money on chain I
was just you know dejing it up trying to
learn as much as I could and it got to
the point where of course you know I
couldn’t do a job and be this solely
focused on on defi so I I made the leap
right I quit the job I didn’t have a
plan other than other than just diving
deep in and uh as things do in the space
it just kind of started to snowball from
there uh met other people contributed
where I could um met a great group of
people that are the the folks who you
know helped us to to launch V Drome and
then eventually Aerodrome and you know I
really think the the rest is is kind of
history now awesome yeah um Brendan you
he told me this incredible stat um just
before we got on he said that the fourth
highest revenue of blockchain projects
um in the past 30 days um that’s bass so
Bas has now you know it’s about you know
it’s like Bitcoin it’s ethereum maybe
it’s salana and then it’s Bas um and
arrow is uh the top project on base in
terms of volume in terms of Revenue um
tell us a little bit about you know what
are you know you know what are those top
metrics that um aerody Drome has been
accomplishing and how have you done it
what’s the secret yeah
um boy I mean so many ways you you you
can prob
attack that question um I guess maybe
where I would start is just that um you
know the the Genesis for for velodrome
and then then Aerodrome was a a DEX that
Andre cron launched on on Phantom kind
of at the at the very end of of the last
bull market and I kind of actually I
think about that that launch and
billions of dollars of tvl flowing into
Phantom as like the the last high water
mark and then it was like totally
nothing but pain afterwards right
totally so uh Andre launch that was like
November that was like November 2021
practically yeah yeah that’s what I
think that’s when he announced it I
think it went live January and then it
was just like blow after blow right um
that we had to
endure uh but you know his his vision
for this new deck primitive was
basically something that brought to be
brought together the best parts of curve
convex and Unis swap uh wrapped it all
into a single streamlined uh Dex design
uh that aligned incentives really well
and was designed to basically be the
liquidity layer of like a a growing
ecosystem and um while solidly for for a
multitude of reasons you know didn’t end
up kind of being what everybody maybe
hoped it would in that moment um I think
the core thesis behind it right was
absolutely right um that you could take
all of these uh amazing Primitives that
prove proven themselves out in the last
cycle you could bring them all into a
single layer and uh by virtue of doing
that right not having to go to Unis swap
for your V2 style pools curve for your
stable ones go to convex if you want to
incentivize you know having everybody
take their cuts you know along the way
by wrapping it all together you have
something really special and so um when
Andre uh you know decided to take his
Hiatus from from
defi um we sort of looked at the solidly
model and we said uh based on what we
saw what are some tweaks we can make to
the underlying economic model which
functions very similar to curve if
you’re familiar right kind of emissions
based V tokens all of that sort of stuff
so what are some tweaks we can make to
the economic model some tweaks the
underlying code base and then deploy
this on an ecosystem that we think is
desperately in need of of this kind of
uh liquidity Hub and for us uh our
choice was was optimism because uh we
felt that even if the whole Market was
going to contract you know basically
even if we were going to go through the
the hell that we we did that there was
going to be growth in pockets and and
our thesis was those pockets would be
ethereum uh layer twos and so velodrome
was the the beginning of that um
Aerodrome of course uh came later and
and I can I can get into even more about
you know some of the things that I think
lead to the success but you know I’ll
maybe pause there well yeah I mean let’s
dive into that because when you think
about layer 2os in previous Cycles they
were there but now they are extremely
prevalent and most people that are
crypto savvy are familiar with and have
used layer 2 now and it feels like
they’ve kind of exploded onto the scene
since the last Bull Run and I think
maybe part of that is because people
really got to experience what high gas
fees could look like last cycle and ever
since then it kind of created this this
wave of people who are so focused on
using it for all these different
purposes and you know now you look at at
today in the current circumstances and
it’s kind of the same thing and now it’s
beyond just ethereum right I mean even
salana lately which supposed to have a
much higher throughput than the ethereum
Bas layer even they’re having issues and
so people are looking at the space of
layer twos and uh you know they’re
becoming really interested with them so
I mean like do you think that that is
something that has contributed to like
the the current
circumstances yeah absolutely and and
for us it was it was a very intentional
choice you know even at that moment
right um where we were looking at where
to deploy the the moment the industry
was still such that everybody told us
you know go to Avalanche go to salana go
to E thean
mainnet uh you know rebuild it on
Phantom and they said you know why in
God’s name are you going to optimism
this this seemingly you know dead chain
right you know what are you doing that’s
not where are it’s not where the
activity is you know are you guys nuts
but uh are perspective has always been
that I think generally speaking in our
industry we have like a very like today
oriented attitude or like a a strong
recency bias right so yes obviously tvl
users transactions at that point every
other chain should have looked far more
uh attractive to us but we had this
sense that the ethereum L or sorry the
alternate uh L1 moment had been very
much propped up on uh you know
investment and incentives in these
ecosystems and that in sort of a a
contraction moment everything was going
to shift back to to fundamentals to a
degree um and that we thought those
ecosystems would contract right those
incentives would dry up the people
basically fronting all of that um
wouldn’t wouldn’t be able to sustain it
um they didn’t couldn’t perpetuate it
from behind bars I mean yes we didn’t we
didn’t even know how how hard the would
get pulled in some places right um right
uh but we we bet on ethereum layer to
because you know the one thing that we
knew was resilient was ethereum right
and and there I mean there are people
and there are Builders who will Who will
never leave uh ethereum they will never
take their money even back into
traditional Financial systems so if the
BET was on uh ethereum the question is
where were where was uh ethereum going
to grow in scale and that was going to
be on l2s because we knew why people
love to use alternate layer ones right
they’re fast they’re cheap um uh you
know they have new and interesting
projects launching because they are so
accessible and we knew that the promise
of layer 2s was that they were going to
be able to deliver that and while like
EIP 4844 was uh way out there in the
distance I think when we launched we
knew that you know ethereum delivers on
the road mapap so we knew eventually
that 4844 would launch and that
transaction fees on these l2s would feel
as good as any of these alt layer ones
but it would come with all the security
assurances you know of
ethereum uh we also knew that they would
continue to decentralize and I think
that’s going to be the next big catalyst
is op stack uh decentralization because
there’s a lot of people who until they
have those security guarantees right
won’t move over but yeah I think that
was basically it we we figured that was
going to be the place where you were
going to be able to combine some of the
things that made the alt one successful
but do it on top of ethereum and that
basically this moment that’s come which
is exponential growth on
l2s uh we wanted to be there to service
it and we wanted to use all that time in
between when people were focused on
wherever the puck was right to be where
the puck was going so we could welcome
everyone on right yeah I think when you
look at like the current state of base 2
um there is a lot of like d gen activity
happening there at the moment right I
mean there’s a lot of meme coins and
other stuff but then there’s a lot of
really valuable projects being built as
well so I kind of feel like you get a
little bit of like the best of of Both
Worlds um but from like an activity
standpoint like where would you say that
you or what do you see the most activity
happening like what genre um um you see
the most activity happening on base I
mean right now I would say it it’s all
of the above uh because
um what we saw right uh and we saw the
same thing on on optimism when when we
launched there is there is like a set of
of projects and Builders who they will
just be everywhere right you spin up a
new
chain uh you you launch somewhere and
they’re going to make sure you know that
they’re forked over there they’ve got
some you know at least nominal amount of
opportunity but they’ll be there early
and good to go and then there’s usually
kind of a little bit of a slump right
because for everybody else they’re kind
of like weighing their options they’re
saying you know do I launch this uh meme
coin on on salana do I launch it on
arbitrum do I launch it on base and then
you’ve got Builders you know and
projects and Dows where it just takes uh
either a lot of smart contract work it
takes you know moving the political
apparatus of a dow right and there’s
sort of this legging effect so when we
saw basis tvl initially go up um then
you saw just a little bit of a dip and
for us like so much of what we do is uh
helping new projects to on board um you
know introducing them to the ecosystem
helping them bootstrap liquidity all
that sort of fun stuff but uh what
happened sort of really quickly after
that that dip was um everybody started
to reach out so obviously like one of
the first things you will often see is
the explosion in meme coins shitcoins
like whatever right that is one of the
the lowest friction ways for for folks
to deploy get active generate a lot of
speculation activity and all that sort
of stuff but uh it’s not just limited to
that uh right now uh and I would say we
we’ve just like doubled our our bis Dev
and Partnerships team it’s it’s so
overwhelming right now um almost every
token um and major project on L1 is
looking to uh either you know have sort
of a split strategy on base and L1 or
maybe even to move a great deal of their
tvl to layer 2 and this was always the
idea right that
eventually um projects were going to
sort of choose a place on L2 to live
because of course once
um you hit certain levels of activity
and volume and all that sort of stuff uh
who would ever want to go to L1 to
interact with your stuff anymore right
you don’t want to pay an arm and a leg
to do that so we’re finally starting to
see that and then we’re also starting to
see uh for the first time projects on
other
l2s um either migrating um because they
they feel like maybe maybe the momentum
has has shifted um I think a lot of
people are betting on basis promise
right to onboard uh a ton of their their
users to integrate their products
directly into services on the chain and
if you’re on polygon and arbitrum I mean
that’s just a fundamentally different
value proposition if you want you know
to access all of those users and so
right now you know it does just truly
feel like it it is everyone everyone is
at least thinking about in the process
of or has begun you know implementing
strategies on base or even the broader
like optimism super chain yeah and I’m
seeing the same stuff on my end um I was
talking to a project a few months ago
and they were like Hey we’re actually
moving from polygon to base and they
explained why and the institutional
connections and the onboarding and how
that improves their user experience and
um kind of on the same story of what you
were just saying I have two buddies who
have been working on a in an ethereum
project for years now and they were just
getting ready to launch I’m not going to
say the name of it um but they just hit
me up and they’re like hey man I think
we are going to potentially like pivot
over to Bas and originally they’re on
the ethereum main chain and they’re
doing exactly what you’re talking about
kind of like having this dual presence
on the ethereum main chain but also on
base and that wasn’t something that they
were looking at before but now they’re
kind of going through the launching
process and the current market with gasp
and other stuff and they’re like yeah
you know we are actually going to look
at a layer two and the main layer two
that we’re looking at is base right now
yeah and so as time goes on I think
there’s going to be a lot of other
projects that go through that same kind
of realization process they’re going to
come to the same conclusion and I
wouldn’t be surprised if that becomes a
more popular Trend yeah if I I’ve had a
few of these moments um in in working
with other builders where they do like a
a test deployment right of of their
contracts um onto the base test net or
optimism test net and they look at the
cost of it and they’re just flumix right
um and and the minute that they see that
I think that the wheels just start
spinning because that’s not just about
like oh it’s cheaper to launch right
it’s now cheaper to operate it’s it’s
now uh possible to add features that you
never thought you you could had before
and the wheels just start turning and
that does just feel like a a paradigm
shift in in the moment that that we’re
in that uh folks as soon as they get a
taste of that and as soon as the the
network effects and users are there and
as soon as the security is there it’s
it’s uh I mean I think it’s going to be
wild I I’m already in I’m already of the
mindset that that BAS will will very
soon be the largest ethereum layered to
by tvl um it’s already topped things by
by volume and by transactions it’s even
past ethereum mainnet uh I think tvl uh
will be number one soon as well um and
uh I mean if you just imagine uh a world
where it’s uh the the two largest chains
operating on every meaningful metric is
ethereum and base you
wonder you know what’s the fate of some
of these other other ecosystems I just
it’s going to look so different and
that’s why we’re just so excited to to
be on base and to be a part of of that
growth right and and so does that almost
mean um there you know you guys because
I think about you know folks being cross
chain right and we’re we’ve got
instances on all the different chains um
and I I’m not sure if that’s the case
for V or for Vel Drome or aerod Drome
more specifically um and is it because
kind of you really only want to bet on
bass and um not on madic and all that
other stuff and um are there plans to go
cross chain or uh sticking with the evm
on base yeah it’s a it’s a good question
um you know one thing we we looked at
after launching uh vrum and there was I
guess a a ton of interest uh you know
for for us to either deploy like a fork
of V somewhere else or or take velum
multi-chain uh one thing we looked at is
just that the multi-chain decks thesis
has not proven itself out right um and
you can just see this in the the like
tvl numbers on on optimism or Bass right
look at pancake swap on bass you know
look at Curve on optimism or Bass um uh
look at uh balancer right and very
marginal amounts of of t
very marginal amounts of activity these
protocols their their incentives their
economic activity is still usually just
happening on one chain and that’s why
it’s wild right we talking about uh the
the revenue uh or rewards numbers for
for Aerodrome right and then being like
5x what curve is doing but if you look
in defy Lama curves on 15 chains AER
Dres on one right and so there is uh I
think value in the incentive alignment
that comes with focusing you know on a
single chain um it totally aligns your
incentives to focus on the growth and
scaling of that chain uh that said
though with optimism their vision is to
connect together uh all of these chains
that are being built on the op stack and
that are participating in the super
chain to connect them together in such a
way that it abstracts away that the
complexities and frictions of moving
between these chains so one day uh
operating on the super chain should feel
as cohesive as you know operating on a
monolithic chain as operating on on op
main net So the plan basically for
velodrome is to extend horizontally
across these super chains so vr’s
already announced um uh we’re going to
mode we’re going to uh build on bitcoin
which is an exciting new bit coin based
L2 building on the op stack um there’s a
number of others you know worldcoin uh
Zora fraxel a bunch of others and so uh
vone is going to be kind of the
liquidity layer across these uh super
chains making sure that each of these
chains can can build liquidity um over
time as the interoperability comes
online that that liquidity is accessible
across these chains and so that’s sort
of the vision for belum think it’s a
little different than cross chain
because it’s going to be very much
integrated over time into this uh
interoperability uh technology that will
only work in the way that it can work
because these are all operating on the
same technology stack uh the plan for
Aerodrome though uh because we expect
base probably to be as big if not bigger
than every other super chain uh combined
in the medium term is to integrate like
very uh vertically um into Bas and what
that means is we expect Bas to have some
very unique offerings uh you guys have
probably seen that like uh coinbase has
begun to move uh some of their own uh
usdc onto the chain um they’re working
to build uh bring on some of their
institutional Partners on
chain um they are integrating products
and services on base directly into their
their applications
uh their new smart wallet uh and we’re
seeing uh a sort of dizzying amount of
l3s already beginning to be built on top
of base and so aerod drone’s job is
really to uh service that in the way
that only a native layer can right if if
you are a a multi-chain DEX you’re not
going to be able to
basically Uh custom design for The
Unique needs of Bas and in the same way
that a native layer can awesome well
some of the things that uh you’ve talked
about um uh heavily uh incentivized
platform uh Aerodrome is for users and
so I just want to know a little bit
about how listeners at home who are like
oh wow you know I want to you know I
want to get involved and maybe even earn
some aerody Drome tokens like how can
somebody do that
yeah there are a lot of ways to do it
and I I always love to kind of filter it
uh through my own experience right and
and how I got I got started doing any of
this so of course the the simplest way
to to use Aerodrome right is just to to
go on there and Bridge some some uh
funds on the base you can do that via uh
of course the official Bridge any number
of the bridge Partners you can even of
course without any fees bring money from
coinbase onto base if you’re a coinbase
user so it’s very easy to get on the
base and then uh you know one of the
easiest things is just to like go to the
the swap page you know look at other
projects and tokens in the ecosystem and
kind of say like hey do I want to swap
some of this usdc for um moonwell which
is a lending protocol or grand base or
any of these other ecosystem projects um
then you go get involved in those
projects and and you learn more about it
maybe you’re participating in Dows you
know using some of their uh Services uh
but then like the next step in Aerodrome
would be like hey um I now have these
two tokens I have some usdc I have some
some uh moonwell and I’m going to pair
up those two tokens and provide
liquidity and uh you know providing
liquidity is is just kind of the thing
that uh supports trading right you are
the person who’s offering up both sides
of that pool so that somebody can swap
their tokens one way and can swap them
the other and the reward that we give
you for for doing that right or the the
reward I should say the protocol does
because this is all totally
permissionless and decentralized if I
were to disappear from this Earth You
know all of this stuff would work
exactly as it does now without any human
intervention needed that’s the beauty of
the system but uh you would earn aot
tokens um as a reward and if you want to
take those aot tokens and swap them for
for eth or your favorite coin you could
do that um you could also take those
arot tokens lock them uh and then begin
participating in the direction of
emissions right so you could direct more
missions through your voting power to
the pool in which you’re providing
liquidity right support that project
support your own liquidity position and
then you’re earning back the rewards
that pool generates right the fees it’s
generating any incentives deposited on
it and so it it it is like um it is
something like graduating right into
like slight more more complex things but
it’s it’s just great that um you can
kind of just ease your way in right dip
your toes in go a little bit deeper if
you want go a little deeper if you want
figure out the things the activities in
defi that uh are most rewarding to you
that you’re most interested in and and I
think we provide a lot of different ways
to to do that yeah I mean and and with
the the growth of not only Bass But
Aerodrome as a whole here did you notice
Noti any kind of of growing pains in
recent weeks with like the explosion of
activity and throughput I mean when I
think of like when the crypto Market
goes wild like use coinbase as an
example right a couple weeks ago when
price after stopped
working yeah it literally just stopped
working and they were like guys we were
prepared to do 10 times our normal
throughput and you blew that out of the
water and we were just not expecting
this kind of activity and they went down
for a little bit and they they had to
collect themselves and so I’m kind of
wondering you know have you or or
Aerodrome gone through the same thing
where you’re like hey we were expecting
you know this amount and now we saw five
10 15 20 times that or whatever it may
be and did you all as a team have to
kind of get together and be like let’s
let’s expand here so I guess like the
the big question from this is like what
kind of growing pains have you all gone
through yeah you know um I think for us
uh there there hasn’t been anything on
the the technical side and and that that
is just because um we built a protocol
from the the very beginning to uh be as
decentralized as as humanly possible
right so we’ve built on immutable
contracts uh that cannot be changed uh
our front end doesn’t rely on any
centralized backends apis sort of things
like that it’s all live data off the
chain and so that means that you know
from a product
standpoint uh it just scales it scales
with activity it scales with demand um
the only thing you know we saw that
every base user experienced too was
imediately after
4844 where demand went exponential and
gas fees you know went nuts again and
then the base team had to sort of do
their work to increase the overall
capacity and now those fees are back
down you know in the in the sense
thankfully but that was the only like
technical thing that happened and I mean
that’s just the chain workking as it’s
supposed to more demand higher costs
keep everything uh in Balance I think
for us though the like growing pains is
more just like you know we’re we try to
be out there supporting the community we
try to be there answering questions you
know we try to do uh you know Outreach
to Partners and help them on board and
all that sort of stuff and that has
definitely gone exponential and so
that’s where I I’ve definitely I said
you know we we were already in the
process of bringing some folks on board
so the timing was good but you know I’ve
got a 100 telegram messages going at at
any given time and and there was there
was a there was a period where it all
felt very manageable and and now it’s
like we need systems we need process we
need we need like to divide and conquer
certain things um but those are the the
good problems to have that’s that’s just
everyone wants to be on base uh they see
us as the front door of the ecosystem so
naturally they’re going to knock on our
door first and uh we’re going to do
everything we can to support that that
onboarding awesome well one of the
really cool things that I saw get
published I think it was literally just
a few hours ago like two or three hours
ago is about a uh a slipstream upgrade
or something along those lines is that
correct yep yep that’s correct yeah I
mean walk us through that because it
seems like it’s going to be a really
positive thing from a liquidity
standpoint yeah so so yeah this is super
exciting I as I described at the
beginning um you know the the original
Core Design right is is what if we took
the best of curve convex uh and Unis
Swap and rolled it all all into one
right and and we’ve sort of labeled this
the the metad deex model you don’t need
for different protocols to do all of
those things you don’t need derivative
tokens you don’t need all these
different layers uh just build all the
best functionality into one place and um
uh originally though the the two core
amm right were a sort of curve style
stable swap optimized amm and then your
univ V2 style uh amm which of course I
think has uh demonstrated its its
resiliency you know even in the face of
of uh univ V3 and and other models that
have come there’s something just very
tried and true very effective about
those uni V2 style pools uh however we
know that uh for extremely high volume
pairs right in these ecosystems um in
optimism you know an OP WRA eth pool a
WRA e usdc pool um on on base you know
your uh R stake de usdc your rapde usdc
these are pools that uh are extremely
well served by liquidity concentration
right you can deliver much better uh
swap execution so less slippage with
less uh total
liquidity um such that you know it can
just boost volumes and um the trading
experience across the chain which is
stuff that improves the the overall
ecosystem so uh we recently rolled out
slip stream on on velodrome on optimism
and what slipstream is going to do is
basically for the handful pools uh on
optimism that uh benefit tremendously
right from concentration uh we’re now
going to be able to service them and the
exciting thing about it is that we know
our model is capable of attracting major
tvl differentials you know I think on
base right now for instance Aerodrome
has like 2.6 times the total
tvl as uh as Unis swap does so what
happens when you take that kind of tvl
um uh differential and you are able to
concentrate it um at a competitive level
well then you are going to be the best
route for aggregators right um because
you’re gonna have the deepest uh most
concentrated
liquidity and that means more volume
will start flowing through those pools
uh they will start generating more fees
that flow to the ve lockers the you know
the the folks sort of directing
emissions each week and it has the
potential to really have like a a
vampire like effect on on Unis swap
because the the moment you start taking
the fees right and the volume from Unis
swap they have no other way to subsidize
that right it is just fees and if
suddenly aggregators aren’t choosing
your liquidity over in Unis swap those
those uh liquidity providers are going
to look for where the best yields are
those are on on Aerodrome or or
velodrome now and so like going all the
way back to like the launch of curv V2
um that was the last time I feel like
there was a moment in defi where uh the
you know industry or those people
watched it said maybe there’s going to
finally be somebody who can Dethrone um
Unis swaps volume dominance right they
don’t have a fee switch you know there’s
all these compromises of course to to
being on Unis swap but they go out there
and they win volume because of this
concentration we’ve never seen um a a
DEX with the tvl differential plus uh uh
competitive execution and that’s where I
think things get get very very exciting
both for V Drome uh and for Aerodrome
because you guys saw maybe I think last
week over a billion dollars in in volume
you know on on on base like if if if we
can make Aerodrome the best place to to
trade um I it’s going to be very
exciting to see yeah and I I think you
guys are uh clearly uh this goes without
State and you guys are well on your way
uh to being just that so um hey Alex we
really appreciate you coming on talking
all things Bas all things aerody Drome
um where would you recommend our uh you
know our listeners kind of stay in touch
you know is is it a big Twitter
Community uh Discord telegram yeah
definitely check out uh our Twitter’s
Aerodrome fi and vrum fi uh LinkedIn our
profiles of course is our
Discord uh our medium I would say our
Discord communities these days are
absolutely hopping so you know if this
is all new to you and and you want to
you know get into a place and and learn
more about it and ask questions
definitely recommend jump into the
Discord um definitely follow us on on
Twitter uh we we’ll keep you updated
with things like slipstream launch and
and New Pools and and all that sort of
fun stuff and uh yeah I on Twitter I’m
atwg me Alexander definitely uh feel
free to follow me and say hi as well um
uh but yeah I I mean I definitely
appreciate the the opportunity guys yeah
100% I I could definitely uh you know
see a lot of folks who are following
that are you know defi Traders or
wanting to get into defi trading being
able to find a lot of value in your
Discord I I I’m sure they were listening
to that last you know 10 or 15 minute
Riff on uh liquidity providing and yield
farming and they’re like all right I got
to get closer to this guy um because
that’s what I’m thinking no that was
awesome and uh yeah Alex we we
appreciate your time um shout out to
your whole team at Arrow and uh yeah we
we’ll see you next time welcome back uh
whenever you want all right byebye

In this episode of the Crypto 101, Bryce and Brendan talk with Alex, a core contributor at Aerodrome, one of the leading decentralized exchanges on the Base network. Alex shares his journey from politics and big tech into the world of DeFi, fueled by his early experiences in yield farming and his deep dive into Ethereum. He discusses the vision and success of Aerodrome within the Base ecosystem, highlighting its strategic focus on Ethereum layer-two solutions, which offer the same benefits as alternate layer-ones but with better security and lower costs. The episode delves into the explosive growth of layer-two solutions, noting how Aerodrome is positioned at the forefront of this wave, capitalizing on the shift from high gas fees on Ethereum to more efficient and scalable solutions. Alex also discusses the broader impacts of this shift on the crypto ecosystem, predicting significant growth and centralization of activity on platforms like Base, driven by its technological and strategic advantages.

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