Velodrome launches on Fraxtal, with over $1m in voting incentives

Velodrome Finance, a vote-directed DEX and “MetaDEX” for the Optimism Superchain, has launched on Fraxtal, the Frax ecosystem’s Layer 2 built on the OP Stack, alongside a liquidity growth program anchored by more than $1 million in voting incentives. According to the Velodrome and Frax governance proposal, the program is designed so that each $1 of incentives used to attract votes to Fraxtal pools is expected to translate into roughly 1.5x that amount in additional VELO rewards for liquidity providers, deployed over a 12‑month period and focused on strategic Fraxtal trading pairs. This approach extends Velodrome’s model of an incentive marketplace—where projects “bribe” voters to direct emissions toward their pools—from Optimism and other Superchain deployments to Fraxtal, with the goal of rapidly deepening on-chain liquidity for Frax-related assets. The launch matters for both Velodrome and Fraxtal’s growth strategies within the Optimism Superchain. Fraxtal aims to use native account abstraction and a gas rebating design (Flox) to attract users and protocols, but needs deep, sustainable liquidity to support Frax’s stablecoins and rest of the stack; the Velodrome program is explicitly framed as a way to bootstrap this by concentrating incentives on selected Fraxtal pools under guidance from the Frax team. For Velodrome, Fraxtal represents another deployment of its MetaDEX model, where voters lock VELO to direct emissions and earn fees and external incentives, while protocols compete for gauge weight to secure favorable liquidity, a structure that has previously been supported on Optimism via OP incentive programs. The scale and structure of the Fraxtal package—multi‑month, governance-approved, and targeted at vote incentives rather than direct LP rewards—signal a coordinated attempt by both ecosystems to use vote-directed emissions as the primary mechanism to build a liquidity base for the new chain.

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