# AERO

The market spent months obsessing over Layer 2 throughput while overlooking a simpler reality:
An execution layer is only as useful as its liquidity.
Fast transactions mean very little if users cannot enter, exit, or move capital efficiently.
That is where $AERO becomes interesting.
Aerodrome Finance operates as the foundational liquidity layer for Base, using a vote-escrowed model designed to align token emissions with actual trading activity.
The strongest $AERO thesis is coordination.
Instead of treating liquidity as a temporary incentive program, the protocol turns it into a long-term eco