Inverse founder Nour Haridy chronicles DeFi's builder DNA — from Cronje's weekly protocol drops to Solidly's rebirth as Aerodrome
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Promote with Leviathan NewsSolidly hit $2.24B TVL on Fantom, Cronje ghosted weeks later, and the code got forked 40+ times — making ve(3,3) his most replicated primitive in DeFi, outpacing anything from the Yearn era. Aerodrome now sits at $600M+ TVL dominating Base, and the Velodrome merger into a unified "Aero" with MetaDEX03 dropping Q2 2026 is about to stress-test whether ve(3,3) scales cross-chain or fragments into competing liquidity silos. Haridy tracing this lineage while being one of the builders Cronje originally validated via a random Telegram DM back in 2020 is a nice recursion — DeFi's oral history getting written by the people who lived it.
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