🐋 WHALE WATCH : AERO gained 72.6% in Q3 moving from $0.48 to $0.82. It bottomed at $0.40 in early August and peaked at $0.87 on September 26. September drove most of the move as the Aerodrome and Velodrome merger approached launch. => Road to the merger Dromos Labs published the Aero codebase for final audits. A third formal audit ran alongside a three week public Sherlock contest with a $400K prize pool. The team confirmed launch on October 21 across seven chains: Base Ethereum OP Mainnet Arc Ink Robinhood Chain and Arbitrum. Slipstream pools get dynamic fees and MEV capture. => Listings and liquidity Binance listed AERO with AEROUSDT AEROUSDC and AERO/TRY pairs. Coinbase launched tokenized Nvidia Apple Meta and Alphabet shares on Base for non US users with Aerodrome as the day one DEX and LP rewards live from launch. Aero Lite went live on Circles Arc mainnet with Slipstream pools for key stablecoin pairs. => Token demand Aerodromes Public Goods Fund bought and locked 281K AERO bringing the total bought back and locked to nearly 200M. Tenor OTC added AERO as collateral for fixed rate borrowing on Base letting holders borrow against their position without selling.