Aerodrome’s cbStock pools enable continuous trading of equities on Base

The stock market closes at 4 p.m. Eastern, Monday through Friday. Aerodrome, the dominant decentralized exchange on Coinbase’s Base blockchain, would like to change that. The platform launched liquidity pools for tokenized equities on August 24, letting traders buy and sell versions of Nvidia, Apple, Meta, and Google shares 24 hours a day, seven days a week. And the early data suggests this isn’t just a novelty: stocks on Aerodrome averaged a 0.39% price change over the weekend, closely matching where traditional markets opened on Monday morning. That last detail matters more than it sounds. It means the prices forming in these pools aren’t random noise. They’re reflecting real market sentiment during hours when the NYSE and Nasdaq are dark. The numbers so far In the initial days after launch, cumulative trading volume across the four equity pools hit roughly $103 million, with daily peaks reaching about $27 million. The NVDAc liquidity pool, which tracks Nvidia shares, launched with initial liquidity of around $957,000. Aerodrome’s governance token, AERO, climbed approximately 11% to around $0.53 following the announcement. The tokenized stocks carry the “c” suffix, as in NVDAc, A...