Following on from our previous announcement that we are doubling down on Base with a launch on Aerodrome, we are delighted to announce that $AUKI/$AERO trading is live!!

This marks an exciting new chapter for our community, as we take a significant step toward expanding accessibility for our token.

Choosing Aerodrome as our third exchange is in line with our staggered launch strategy. tl;dr: We designed our token launch strategy to be as sustainable as possible by doing everything we could to prevent value extraction before adoption:

• No CEX on the first date. CEXes charge extortionate listing fees and often want a huge percentage of a project’s token supply on top of that. We launched on DEX first, then later on MEXC because they gave us very reasonable terms. In rejecting the much worse offers of other CEXes, not only did we save at least $200k that we’re now spending on building the project, we didn’t give any CEX the ability to dump the token on our community.
• Daily linear unlocks. All backers are on daily linear unlocks, meaning there are no major unlock events that VCs and whales can use to short the token and extract value from the community.
• Fair price launch. Unlike other projects that launch their tokens at FDVs that are many multiples of what their backers bought in at, we gave our community the chance to buy $AUKI at valuations that were very similar to what backers got. No VC is already in huge profit now while we are still bootstrapping adoption.

We believe these principles benefit our community and early adopters, who are at the core of our goal to build and deploy civilization-scale infrastructure funded, owned and operated by the people.

That’s why Jamie Burke from Outlier Ventures called us the best DePIN entry for retail:

But like any DePIN we are only as strong as our community.

Starting today, you can buy $AUKI directly on Aerodrome with $AERO. Whether you’re a long-time supporter or just discovering our project, this listing makes it easier than ever to join our mission and engage with the Auki network.

Trade $AUKI now on Aerodrome!
   

About Auki

Auki is making the physical world accessible to AI by building the real world web: away for robots and digital devices like smart glasses and phones to browse, navigate, and search physical locations.

70% of the world economy is still tied to physical locations and labor, so making the physical world accessible to AI represents a 3X increase in the TAM of AI in general. Auki's goal is to become the decentralized nervous system of AI in the physical world, providing collaborative spatial reasoning for the next 100bn devices on Earth and beyond.

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