Velodrome Finance (VELO) is an innovative DeFi protocol that amalgamates features from Curve, Convex, and Uniswap, focusing on serving as the liquidity hub for the Optimism Network. It facilitates token swapping and liquidity provision while rewarding Liquidity Providers (LPs) with VELO emissions. Velodrome Finance features a governance mechanism using VELO and veVELO tokens, which encourages active participation from users in the protocol's decision-making processes.