Episode description

Ask Messari Copilot "Please explain Aerodrome's recent growth." https://messari.io/copilot/share/aerodrome-s-growth-analysis-b1f4da98-e4d1-412f-9b5a-fbcf61bf1e2b

Alex Cutler, Co-Founder of Aerodrome joins the Messari Research team to talk about DEX's, Metadex's, Aerodrome and Velodrome.

Aerodrome Finance is a next-generation AMM designed to serve as Base's central liquidity hub, combining a powerful liquidity incentive engine, vote-lock governance model, and friendly user experience. Aerodrome inherits the latest features from Velodrome V2. Aerodrome NFTs vote to distribute token emissions and receive incentives and fees generated by the protocol.

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00:00 Intros & Origins

03:27 The Role of Each Stakeholder in Metadex's

08:58 Voting in the Aerodrome & Velodrome Ecosystem

16:59 Zero-Sum vs. Positive Sum

24:30 LVR Toxic Flow - Is this actually a big issue?

27:48 Token Utility

Hosted by Sunny Shi & Kinji Steimetz of Messari

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