🚀 Just got on the train, AERO? Binance listed it only two days ago—I dug up its bottom cards
Brothers, last Friday night I was scrolling on my phone when a push notification suddenly popped up: “Binance will list Aerodrome Finance (AERO) on the 17th.” I jolted upright—Base chain’s number one DEX is finally here.
Two days later, AERO has pulled back from the initial spike and is now consolidating around $0.46, with a 24h trading volume of $63 million. Liquidity is slowly accumulating. But what I want to say is: this isn’t just a short-term “exchange listing good news” story.
🔍 What exactly is AERO?
In plain terms, Aerodrome is the “liquidity command center” on the Base chain. If you trade on Base, chances are you’re using Aerodrome pools. It accounts for over 60% of Base’s DEX trading volume, and its TVL (locked value) is over $1.2 billion—yes, nearly half of all Base chain liquidity is locked here.
How did it do that? Its model is called ve(3,3). If you lock AERO to get veAERO, you can vote on which pool receives that week’s liquidity incentives, while also collecting 100% of trading fee revenue. In other words, you’re both the “boss” of LPs and the “landlord” who collects rent.
This isn’t something that started from zero. Its underlying code is Velodrome V2 (the largest DEX on Optimism). It’s made by the same team, Dromos Labs—co-founders Alexander Cutler and Tao Watts lead the charge, with Coinbase Ventures directly locking tokens to participate in governance. The team has Solidity chops; it’s not one of those chicken projects that only sells promises.
💡 Why pay attention now?
There are two major drivers in July: first, Binance’s listing just opened up liquidity entry points, bringing in more retail and institutional capital; second, AERO just rolled out its Predictive Allocation upgrade this month, changing “weekly voting to share rewards” into “real-time AI predictions for liquidity demand allocation.” Basically, it’s maximizing market-making efficiency.
From the data: at the current price of $0.46, it’s fully diluted valuation of roughly $900 million. Compared to its peak ATH of $2.33, that’s down 80%. But this isn’t basic-fundamentals deterioration—Base chain is still growing (Coinbase’s own child), and AERO remains firmly in the top spot, distributing about $6.9 million in fees to locked users each month.
⚠️ Risks also need to be clear: there’s weekly token emission (initial supply of 500 million, unlocking 10 million per week), so inflation pressure is always there. If the Base chain narrative cools off, AERO will get hit too.
My take: the current price is in the “buy-and-observe” zone. If you want to get in, build your position in batches—lock part of it to earn rent as veAERO, and keep some flexible capital to handle volatility. Don’t go all-in at once—this market needs time to digest the sell pressure from Binance’s listing. But in the long run, as long as Base chain doesn’t die, AERO stays as the toll booth at its doorstep.
In short—I’m keeping my eye on this coin. You decide for yourselves.
VWAP=Volume-Weighted Average Price=the average execution cost of all traders’ trades today. Price above VWAP=those who entered today are, on average, making money; below VWAP=they’re, on average, losing money. Institutions treat it as an important reference line. It’s simple to use: above VWAP is bullish, and breaking below is bearish.
💡 Current BTC $64,692, 24h +1.1%. Understanding these basics will definitely help your trading.
Have you noticed that some coins show a funding rate next to them? Today, let’s talk about the concept every futures trader must understand. A fee rate >0 means long positions pay short positions, while <0 means short positions pay long positions. Extreme funding rates (>0.1% or <-0.1%) often signal that a reversal may be coming—not immediately, but it’s a warning sign. When you look at funding rates together with price patterns, you’ll get higher accuracy.
💡 Current BTC $64,685, 24h +1.1%. Understanding these basics will definitely help your trading.
Use the 200-day moving average to judge the major trend: if the price is above the moving average = a bullish trend; below it = a bearish trend. Trading in the direction of the major trend naturally gives a higher win rate. Currently, BTC is trading below the 200-day moving average, with a bearish bias in the medium term.
💡 Current BTC $63,083, 24h +0.3%. Understanding these basic concepts will definitely help your trading.
🔥 FIDA’s 99% plunge—Is there still hope? The life-or-death moment for Solana name-service leader Bonfida
Brothers, today we’ll talk about a project that was once a star but is now in trouble—Bonfida (FIDA).
You may have seen .sol domain names in the Solana ecosystem—that’s what they do. But if you still hold FIDA, this is a must-read.
📌 What is FIDA?
Bonfida originally built the Serum DEX trading interface, and later pivoted to Solana Name Service (SNS)—a domain service on Solana. Think of it like this: just as ENS is to Ethereum, SNS is Solana’s “blockchain yellow pages.” You don’t need to remember a bunch of gibberish addresses—just send to “zhangsan.sol.”
The Brave browser, Hashmail, and Wormhole all integrate with SNS, so the infrastructure credentials are solid.
👥 Team background
Founder David Ratiney: • Worked at FTX • Previously built financial systems at Goldman Sachs and JPMorgan • Founded Bonfida in 2020, raising a $4.5M seed round
Investors: CMS Holdings, Three Arrows Capital (now bankrupt), Spartan Group, etc.
⚠️ Credibility: The team’s technical capabilities are top-tier in the Solana ecosystem, but the FTX/3AC connection is a sensitive point. Overall there are no signs of a rug pull, and they’re still delivering.
🚨 Biggest downside: FIDA was abandoned by the official team
In July 2024, it was rebranded as Solana Name Service (SNS).
In May 2025, a new token $SNS was issued, directly replacing FIDA’s governance power. FIDA is left with only a small 5% discount feature.
The team’s own words: “$FIDA 的代幣經濟學不可持續。”
The new SNS token allocates 40% via airdrop to .sol holders; FIDA holders are not in the priority list. This is the core issue—FIDA was effectively “abandoned” by its own team.
📊 Live price & volume (Binance contracts, 2026.6.22)
✅ Positives: • SNS domains have real demand, with over 1M users • Integrations like Brave and Hashmail expand use cases • Indirectly benefits from Solana ecosystem recovery (2025 Q3 institutional inflows of $1.72B) • Fully circulating supply—no unlock-induced sell pressure
❌ Negatives: • FIDA was abandoned by the official team; governance shifted to SNS • The tokenomics were certified by the team as “unsustainable” • Huge bagholder positions from the high-price era • Volume shrinking, with funding rate staying negative
💡 Conclusion: FIDA is a short-term “zombie token”—the project is still alive (SNS domains keep running), but the coin is dead (FIDA is replaced by the new token).
Short term: support around $0.021, but there isn’t enough momentum. Long term: lack of a value-capture mechanism.
The only potential explosion point: an SNS launch of a FIDA → SNS migration/conversion plan (none currently).
📢 Action suggestion: Watch and wait. Don’t blindly bottom-fish just because it’s cheap near $0.02. If you’re bullish on Solana’s domain-service track, follow the new SNS token path.
Risks: ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ Very high—not that the project is going to go to zero, but that the token value is being diluted.