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Uniswap Labs and Foundation Propose 'UNIfication' to Activate Fees, Burn UNI, Restructure Governance

The package now heads to a Uniswap DAO vote.

Overview

  • The plan would route a share of trading fees and Unichain revenues into an onchain UNI burn mechanism.
  • A retroactive burn of 100 million UNI from the treasury is proposed to mirror what might have been burned if fees had been active since launch.
  • New Protocol Fee Discount Auctions and v4 hooks aim to internalize MEV and collect fees from external liquidity to support the burn.
  • Uniswap Labs would set interface, wallet, and API charges to zero to focus on protocol growth.
  • Governance would be overhauled as Labs folds into Foundation ecosystem teams under a five‑member board of Hayden Adams, Devin Walsh, Ken Ng, Callil Capuozzo, and Hart Lambur, alongside a proposed 20 million‑UNI annual growth budget starting in 2026.