Vote where the data shows. Not where the crowd goes.
Every epoch, 190+ pools compete for your veAERO. Bribes shift weekly, and the APR shown on the vote page is almost never what you actually settle at. GaugeEdge ranks every pool by what it's really paying per vote and hands you an allocation for your position — non-custodial, in about two minutes.
The best-vs-typical spread opens and closes with the bribe cycle: 10–26× per vote for 29 straight weeks, ~1× in this quiet one. Wide weeks only pay if you're allocated when they happen.
Optimizing votes by hand is a part-time job you do every week.
veAERO is one of the better-paying positions in DeFi — Aerodrome's own figures put an average-efficiency 10,000 veAERO position at roughly $2,470 over a year. "Average efficiency" is the catch. The gap between average and well-allocated is real, and capturing it is genuinely tedious.
The displayed APR drifts
Votes pour in before the epoch closes, diluting the pools that looked best earlier. What you see at vote time isn't what you settle at.
Bribes aren't worth face value
Rewards arrive in 50+ tokens of wildly different liquidity. A big number in a thin token isn't a big number you can actually realize.
Miss a week, miss the rewards
Allocation has to be redone every epoch as bribes and votes shift. One skipped week is one week of rewards left on the table.
One ranked allocation, every epoch, for your position.
We pull every pool's votes, fees, and bribes straight from the chain, value each reward token at what it's actually worth to exit, and rank pools by real per-vote return. Then we solve for how to spread your veAERO across them so you're not piling into one crowded pool. You keep custody throughout — GaugeEdge never touches your keys or your funds. You cast the vote yourself, on Aerodrome, in a couple of clicks.
Set the dial to your position.
Two historical reference points, scaled to your veAERO: what an average-efficiency voter actually earned over a year (Aerodrome's own published average), and how far apart the pools that paid really were. Neither is a GaugeEdge return claim.
≈ $119 per epoch — what an average-efficiency voter at this size earned over a year, scaling Aerodrome's own published average (~$2,470 per 10k veAERO) linearly. Their figure, not ours.
Illustrative and historical, from settled on-chain data — a quiet-market epoch, while the Aerodrome average covers a different period. Per-vote rates move with bribes, votes, and AERO price, and the top pool can't absorb everyone's votes (rates dilute as votes arrive). Not a prediction or a promise of returns.
Locked through the bear anyway? Vote like it.
A locked veAERO position leaves you exactly one decision — where the votes go each week. In a bull, voting yield is a rounding error next to price. In a market like this, it is the return. And it's paid in tokens, not dollars: well-allocated votes earn more AERO regardless of the chart, and every extra AERO compounded into your lock is voting power you keep — this epoch, and every one after it.
Quiet markets are when stacks get built. We just make sure yours doesn't leak.
Priced to pay for itself many times over.
- Live per-vote ranking for the current epoch
- The gap between average and optimized, for your size
- One protocol
- Full allocation tuned to your veAERO weight
- Settled-return estimates, not headline APR
- Liquidity-adjusted bribe valuations
- Epoch-close reminders so you never miss a week
- Multi-protocol as we expand (Velodrome next)
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We'll email you the moment the beta opens at your founding price. In the meantime, your answers go straight into how we prioritize — thank you.
The questions you should be asking.
Is GaugeEdge custodial? Does it touch my wallet?
No. GaugeEdge never holds, moves, or has access to your funds, keys, or veAERO — there is no wallet connection anywhere, including on this page. It's an information tool: it shows you a ranked allocation, and you cast the vote yourself on Aerodrome.
Where does the data come from?
Straight from the chain. Every figure on this page is computed from settled on-chain Aerodrome data — votes, fees, and bribes for 192 pools across 52 consecutive weekly epochs, through the date stamped on the chart. Nothing comes from screenshots, third-party dashboards, or projections.
Why should I trust these numbers?
Because the analysis is built to attack itself. Dust pools (under 0.1% of epoch votes) are filtered out before we quote any dispersion figure; bribe tokens are valued at what they'd realistically fetch on exit, not face value; allocations are tested with no foresight of how the epoch ends; and where a range exists we quote the conservative end. Everything shown is historical — nothing on this page is a return promise.
What does signing up commit me to?
Nothing. Reserving the founding price costs $0 today. You get one email when the private beta opens, and the $19/mo founding rate (vs $39/mo at launch) stays locked for as long as you keep your subscription. No spam, no wallet, and you can ignore the email.