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BASE’S NEW FANBASE: Simply because the Friend.tech fad faded, sapping a few of the post-launch adoration of Coinbase’s new Base layer-2 blockchain (as chronicled in final week’s The Protocol), there’s a brand new child on the town: Aerodrome Finance. The platform, which markets itself because the Base ecosystem’s “premiere liquidity engine and hub,” has shortly attracted greater than $170 million of TVL or “whole worth locked,” serving to to push the general TVL of protocols on Base to more than $400 million. The key? In response to the publication Wu Blockchain, the mission’s “native token, $AERO, affords liquidity mining rewards with an annualized yield close to 1,000% without compounding.” That’s loads, even in crypto. Aerodrome’s TVL has now exceeded – “flippened” in crypto jargon – the $158 million on Velodrome, Aerodome’s predecessor mission, which sits on the older layer-2 chain Optimism. Is it sustainable? “Cash doesn’t materialize out of skinny air,” Wu Blockchain famous dryly, so “it’s value contemplating when this spiral would possibly come to an finish.” (A Base zit: On Tuesday, the community suffered a “major outage” that lasted a bit of over three hours, its largest glitch because the launch final month.)