{
  "url": "https://blockindex.ai/coin/aevo",
  "name": "Aevo",
  "links": {
    "github": null,
    "website": "https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/aevo/",
    "whitepaper": null
  },
  "dScore": 24,
  "market": {
    "priceUsd": 0.018367801597499435,
    "marketCapUsd": 16845957.77191537,
    "volume24hUsd": 3558872.25364475,
    "priceChange7dPct": -5.35203797,
    "priceChange24hPct": -4.54599533
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  "source": "BlockIndex.AI",
  "supply": {
    "max": 1000000000,
    "circulating": 917146109.3203855,
    "circulatingPct": 91.71461093203854
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  "ticker": "AEVO",
  "founder": "Julian Koh, Ken Chan, Luís Felipe Carvalho",
  "vcFunded": true,
  "updatedAt": "2026-06-19T06:00:23.01473+00:00",
  "fairLaunch": false,
  "launchYear": 2020,
  "description": "Aevo is a product-focused trading Layer-2 protocol and accompanying ERC-20 token (AEVO) designed to bring centralized-exchange execution characteristics to decentralized derivatives markets. Founded and put into operation beginning in 2020, Aevo pairs an off-chain matching engine with on-chain settlement, building execution infrastructure on a custom Optimism (OP) stack rollup to inherit Ethereum settlement security. The project positions itself for institutional and sophisticated retail derivatives traders by emphasizing low-latency execution, high throughput, and product primitives such as options, perpetual futures, vault strategies and structured products. Aevo’s materials assert that the platform was engineered to support single-margin accounting across products and to enable complex structured strategies while retaining on-chain finality.\n\nTechnically, Aevo combines an off-chain central limit order book and matching engine with on-chain settlement on an OP-stack rollup. This hybrid architecture is intended to deliver CEX-like performance characteristics (the project cites throughput figures of >5,000 TPS and sub-10ms matching latency) while relying on Ethereum for dispute resolution and settlement. The AEVO token is an ERC-20 contract used across the ecosystem for protocol economics, incentives and potential governance-related activities; the platform itself runs as a Layer-2 execution environment which delegates finality and settlement to Ethereum. The protocol does not rely on traditional block-mining parameters or PoW/PoS rewards because it is an L2/exchange model rather than a native L1 blockchain with validator-issued block rewards.\n\nIn terms of use cases and ecosystem fit, Aevo targets derivatives traders and institutions seeking custody, margining and sophisticated product exposure without sacrificing settlement security. Use cases include options and perpetuals trading, automated vault strategies, structured products and market-making by institutions that benefit from low-latency order matching and on-chain settlement guarantees. The protocol’s design is also oriented toward composability with Ethereum tooling, meaning AEVO tokens and user positions can interact with other DeFi primitives when appropriate. The project’s reported usage metrics—public materials cite multi-billion dollar notional volumes processed—are positioned as evidence of traction with professional traders and liquidity providers.\n\nTokenomics and distribution details supplied in the combined materials are partial: AEVO has a documented max supply of 1,000,000,000 AEVO with a circulating supply reported at ~915.96M AEVO (≈91.6%). Public snapshots (CoinMarketCap-derived data included in the provided materials) show price and market-cap figures at particular moments in time but the sources included do not provide a full allocation table with explicit premine or public allocation percentages (PIP). Institutional backing is documented in source materials (Paradigm, Dragonfly, Scalar Capital, Ethereal Ventures, Robot Ventures, Alliance and others are mentioned as backers), confirming venture-style financing and strategic investor involvement, but the exact VC allocation percentages were not provided in the scraped dataset.\n\nGovernance and organizational structure are not exhaustively documented in the provided materials. The site and materials include a governance portal reference, but no detailed on-chain DAO mechanics, token voting schedules or treasury governance processes were present in the scraped content. The combined documents do indicate a product company and clear investor participation, but a formal legal entity name or explicit CEO assignment was not present in the material provided. Looking forward, the project roadmap as described in the available files emphasizes expanding derivatives coverage, extending vault and structured-product support, and continuing to optimize matching and settlement performance on the custom OP-stack rollup while broadening institutional integrations and liquidity provisioning.",
  "methodology": "https://blockindex.ai/dscore",
  "classification": {
    "layer": "Layer 2",
    "isToken": true,
    "consensus": "Other",
    "parentChain": "ETH"
  },
  "dScoreComponents": {
    "autonomy": 0,
    "ageHistory": 13,
    "governance": 11,
    "nodeDistribution": 0,
    "initialDistribution": 0
  },
  "decentralizationVerdict": "Centralized Leaning"
}