Aerodrome Finance Investment Calculator
What would buying AERO have been worth? Pick a plan and a start date and this replays it against real daily Aerodrome Finance closes.
What AERO actually did, in the data this page replays
Measured from the 365 daily closes this page replays — 14 September 2025 to 13 September 2026, from CoinGecko. Figures are bounded by that window, not by the asset’s whole life.
| History available | 12 months (from CoinGecko) |
|---|---|
| Bought on the first day, held to the last | 0.459× — a loss of 54.1% |
| Highest close in this window | $1.34 on 18 September 2025 |
| Where it sits against that high | 58.1% below |
| Deepest fall | −77.5%, 18 September 2025 → 11 February 2026 |
| Time to get back to that peak | still below it |
| Separate falls of 50% or more | 1 |
| Days spent more than 20% below a previous peak | 93.7% |
| Best calendar year (partial) | 2026: +40.1% |
| Worst calendar year (partial) | 2025: -64.6% |
| Annualised volatility | 140.1% |
AERO year by year
First close to last close each year. 2025 and 2026 are partial — the data starts mid-2025 and 2026 is still running.
| Year | Change | Note |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | -64.6% | partial year |
| 2026 | +40.1% | partial year |
The part the calculator does not show you
Held from the first day in this data to the last, AERO returned 0.459× — a loss of 54.1%. Long holding periods are usually presented as the thing that rescues a volatile asset, and over this particular window for this particular coin, they did not. It is worth setting the calculator above to the full range and seeing that result written out before assuming time fixes an entry.
The deepest fall took AERO down 77.5%, from $1.34 on 18 September 2025 to $0.3018 on 11 February 2026 — 5 months of falling. AERO has not been back to that peak since. Anyone who bought on 18 September 2025 is still waiting, 7 months later — which is the scenario a backtest showing a positive average return quietly averages away.
One caveat specific to AERO: we only hold 12 months of daily closes for it, which is not enough to cover a full cycle. Any result the calculator gives you is a statement about one short stretch of an unusually eventful market, and the confidence you can place in it is correspondingly low. The coins on this site with six or more years of history give far more meaningful answers.
At 140.1% annualised volatility, AERO sits in the top band of anything on this site — the drawdown figures above, not the average, are the number to plan around. All AERO calculators →
Frequently asked questions
＋Would buying AERO on the first day of this data and holding have made money?
No. Held across the whole window the position ended at 0.459× — a loss of 54.1%. That is worth stating plainly because "hold long enough and it recovers" is the usual advice, and over the 12 months we hold for AERO it did not happen.
＋What is the worst AERO has fallen?
77.5% in this data, from 18 September 2025 down to 11 February 2026 — 5 months of falling. It has not returned to that peak since, so anyone who bought at the top is still waiting. Bear in mind our AERO series starts in 2025; a deeper fall before that date would not appear here.
＋How much time does AERO spend below its previous high?
93.7% of all days in this window sat more than 20% below a previous peak. Put another way, for most of the time you would have owned it, the screen showed a number lower than one you had already seen — which is the part of a backtest's headline return that the headline never conveys.
＋What were AERO's best and worst years?
2026 was the best at +40.1% (a partial year in our data), and 2025 the worst at -64.6% (also partial). The gap between those two is the reason a single average annual return is a poor description of this asset: almost nobody experiences the average, they experience one of the two extremes depending on when they bought.
＋Is 12 months of data enough to trust this backtest?
No, and that is the honest answer for AERO specifically. 12 months does not cover a full market cycle, so any result here describes one short stretch rather than a pattern. Treat it as a record of what happened, not as evidence about what tends to happen.
What to keep in mind for AERO
AERO is a high-beta DeFi token tied to Base's total value locked and emission schedule; it swings hard with Base ecosystem sentiment and incentive campaigns.
AERO is Base-native, so moving and trading it is cheap; there is no expensive Ethereum-mainnet leg unless you bridge it off Base.
A backtest is one path that already happened. It shows what this plan produced through the exact sequence of prices AERO went through — not what a similar plan will produce through a sequence nobody has seen yet.