Key highlights:
- Uniswap governance has opened voting on proposals to activate v4 protocol fees across seven blockchains
- All proceeds will be directed to the UNI burn mechanism
- Early voting indicates an overwhelming support for the proposal, teeing them up for eventual passage
UNI burns could accelerate
Uniswap founder Hayden Adams disclosed on X that the new proposals will increase the pace of burns. Adams hinged his forecast on the pace of trading activity on Robinhood Chain, with the blockchain briefly surpassing Ethereum and Base in DEX volumes.
“Both direct all new protocol fees into the existing UNI burn mechanism,” said Adams. “Based on current volumes, especially Robinhood, we expect the impact on UNI burn to be substantial.”
We just submitted two Uniswap governance proposals for final onchain vote:
1) v2 + v3 protocol fees on robinhood chain
2) v4 protocol fees on ethereum, base, arbitrum, robinhood, bnb, polygon, optimism(third proposal with remaining v4 chains coming soon)
Both direct all new… pic.twitter.com/NUCXxegnte
— Hayden Adams 🦄 (@haydenzadams) July 17, 2026
Both proposals build on Uniswap’s UNIfication governance overhaul approved in December 2025. The overhaul introduced protocol fee collection and directed the resulting revenue toward reducing UNI’s circulation supply through token burns.
Protocol fees are active across 11 chains, and governance documents note that the system burned a record 186,000 UNI in a single day last month. While the UNI price did not surge amid the news, previous proposals advancing token burns have sent the asset on a strong rally.
Source:: Uniswap Votes to Boost UNI Burn With v4 Fees and Robinhood Chain Expansion