Frax Finance has introduced six new foreign exchange pools on Aerodrome, a decentralized exchange on Base, pairing its stablecoin frxUSD with tokens tracking six different national currencies: Brazilian real, Canadian dollar, British pound, Indonesian rupiah, South African rand, and Australian dollar. The pools started with about $241,000 in liquidity and have seen modest trading volumes of around $20,000 daily. This move expands Frax's onchain currency offerings, building on previous launches on Polygon, and coincides with Aerodrome's upcoming merger with Velodrome to form a unified liquidity platform called Aero. While current liquidity and trading volumes are low, the initiative taps into the large potential of onchain FX markets, especially for emerging-market currencies.
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