DeFi

Also checking @aerodrome raw volume data and this weird token Grand Base appears to have skyrocketed in volume and fees. Anyone know what this is? Can't seem to find a project page anywhere.

The central trading and liquidity marketplace on BASE

https://aerodrome.finance

Check the token contract. Probably some kind of a scam.

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Interesting. I am using this dashboard explicitly showing all tokens just to get info on what's moving and not active gauges. Honestly I was just wondering if there's some team out there that was honestly making a new token, but I searched it on CMC and Gecko and can't find anything about it. Didn't want to make assumptions but still very odd.

Such scam tokens are popular on other DEXes. It's because of ERC-20 standard and tueibg complete transfer function, thus can not happen on Solana.