On Base's Aerodrome DEX, a striking pattern has emerged with bridged SOL trading: approximately 95.5% of the $5.4 billion in volume appears to be wash trading activity. Users, primarily yield farmers, are systematically exploiting this through coordinated trading to extract AERO token incentives. The mechanism is simple yet effective—by inflating trading volumes through self-dealing transactions, participants artificially boost their share of the platform's reward distribution. This highlights a structural vulnerability in how many DEX platforms allocate liquidity incentives, where volume-based reward systems become targets for gaming rather than genuine market activity. The phenomenon raises questions about the quality of trading metrics on emerging Layer 2 solutions and whether current incentive models adequately distinguish between organic market participation and coordinated extraction strategies.