Overview
- UNIfication would activate protocol-level fees and direct a share of trading and Unichain sequencer fees to an ongoing UNI burn, alongside a one-time retroactive burn of about 100 million tokens from the treasury.
- The plan consolidates core teams under a unified structure with a five‑member oversight board that includes Hayden Adams, Devin Walsh, Ken Ng, Callil Capuozzo and Hart Lambur.
- Uniswap Labs says it will set interface, wallet and API fees to zero, shifting away from front‑end monetization to focus incentives on protocol usage and UNI holders.
- The package introduces Protocol Fee Discount Auctions to internalize MEV and Uniswap v4 “aggregator hooks” designed to collect fees from external on‑chain liquidity sources.
- Analysts modeled sizable buybacks under the proposed fee split (0.25% to LPs, 0.05% to the protocol), with one estimate near $38 million per month, and UNI jumped roughly 30%–41% after the announcement.