Farmers Markets #14: Vote your veAERO and veVELO
If you aren't familiar with the veTOKEN model then check out my explainer post about this on Bulb https://www.bulbapp.io/p/270273dd-697b-4332-85ac-db65e50bb46d/vetokens-defi-lore-innovation-yield-from-voting?s_id=bccb5ecb-0380-433a-9e2e-f1405a0305e2
If you want to know more about the analysis here see my post on Bulb
https://www.bulbapp.io/p/d82b629d-6790-4bfe-b185-c1156997baf4/farmers-markets-0-beets-aero-velo-equal-gauges?s_id=d3ffcb86-d4db-4c5f-acc5-0546d4c1744c
Voting veVELO - Epoch 110
See Dune Dashboard for Epoch details https://dune.com/0xkhmer/velodrome
Velodrome Vote: https://velodrome.finance/vote
Optimism Block Explorer https://optimistic.etherscan.io/
Birdseye token explorer https://birdeye.so/?chain=optimism
Velodrome Epoch Dune dashboard https://dune.com/0xkhmer/velodrome
Epoch 109 rewards
Who we voted for
How we voted
How it ended up
About half the projected ROI is very par-for-the-course with this sort of thing. wOPTIDOGE goes into our holdings and VELO goes into our lock.
Who I'm voting my veVELO for this epoch
Who we' voted for
How we voted
Assessing the rewards
Stablecoins and OP. Pretty standard stuff.
Those interesting vAPRs....
This time out we're looking at an interesting token.
The LP is nothing to write home about. Basically nothing in rewards.
But the token opxveVELO is interesting. 
opxveVELO
Perpetually Bonded VELO (aka opxveVELO) is a solution to the problem veTOKENs have with liquidity. Whilst there is a lot of VELO in total, the vast majority of it is locked up in voting NFTs so the liquidity is very low for a nominally high MC token.
Enter the solution OpenXSwap have come up with for veVELO (and other similar tokens).
Website https://app.openxswap.exchange/PerpetualBonds#/opxveProject
X https://x.com/OpenXSwap
Docs https://docs.openxswap.exchange/the-open-x-project/opxvelo-optimism/collateralization
However for a project that's trying to improve veVELO liquidity... it's not doing a stellar job so far.
Voting veAERO - Epoch 45
Aerodrome Rewards: https://aerodrome.finance/dash
Aerodrome Voting https://aerodrome.finance/vote
Base Block Explorer https://basescan.org/
Birdseye Token Explorer https://birdeye.so/?chain=base
Aerodrome Epoch Dune dashboard https://dune.com/0xkhmer/aerodrome
Epoch 44 rewards
Who we voted for
How we voted
How it ended up 
Whilst it's not unusual to see ROI go down at the end of the voting period what happened here is we also got hit with the price of OKAYEG dumping as well.
Not to matter. We'll hold onto this memecoin for now.
Who we're voting my veAERO for this epoch
Who we voted for
How we voted
Assessing the rewards
Really interesting one this. Not often you see a project with very small fee volume then reward in a non-project token. But this is what fBOMB are doing, putting all the rewards in AERO.
We are sooooo here for it.
Those successful memecoin vAPRs...
Not often you see a memecoin achieve such a high vAPR on fees alone. But that's what BRETT has done. 2nd highest fees on all of Aerodrome no less.
Website https://www.basedbrett.com/
X https://x.com/BasedBrett
Pausing veVELO and veAERO Farmers Markets
We're hitting pause on the these posts for now.
By now there's been enough posts for people to have gotten their heads around using the tools, interpreting data, and tracking results so that they can confidently engage in veTOKEN voting on Velodrome and Aerodrome and pretty much any veTOKEN voting model out there.
If we find a way to bring something fresh and new to the post format we'll start them back up again.
