Uniswap governance is preparing to vote on two proposals that could expand the protocol’s UNI burn by adding new fee sources from Uniswap v4 and Robinhood Chain.
Summary
- Uniswap voters will decide whether v4 and Robinhood Chain fees should expand the UNI burn.
- Robinhood Chain crossed $6 billion in cumulative Uniswap swap volume within ten days of launch.
- New protocol fees would flow into TokenJar contracts before UNI is burned on Ethereum mainnet.
The measures are scheduled for onchain voting from July 19 through July 26.The proposals follow the UNIfication overhaul approved in December 2025, which connected protocol fees to a UNI burn system. Uniswap founder Hayden Adams said current trading activity, especially on Robinhood Chain, could increase the amount of UNI removed from circulation. The votes use an expedited governance process created for later fee updates.
Two votes target v4 and Robinhood Chain fees
The official Robinhood Chain protocol fee proposal would activate protocol fees for Uniswap v2 and v3 on the network. Uniswap launched all three versions of its decentralized exchange on Robinhood Chain when the layer-2 network went live on July 1.
According to the proposal, Uniswap deployments on Robinhood Chain crossed $6 billion in cumulative swap volume by July 10. The separate Uniswap v4 fee proposal would activate fees for selected pools on Ethereum, Arbitrum, Base, BNB Chain, Polygon, Optimism and Robinhood Chain. A second v4 vote is planned for five other networks.
New protocol fees would feed the UNI burn
Both proposals would direct collected protocol fees into Uniswap’s existing TokenJar system. Searchers can claim accumulated fee assets by providing UNI of equal value, which the system then sends to a burn address. UNI collected on other networks is bridged back to Ethereum before it is destroyed.
Adams said in his announcement on X, “Based on current volumes, especially Robinhood, we expect the impact on UNI burn to be substantial.” The proposal documents say protocol fees are already active across v2 and v3 pools on 11 networks. They also record a one-day burn of 186,000 UNI last month.
As reported by crypto.news, Uniswap had already recorded its largest single-day UNI burn before the latest governance push, showing how higher fee activity can increase the number of tokens removed through the mechanism.
Robinhood Chain activity raises the stakes
Robinhood Chain has quickly become a major source of Uniswap trading activity since its July launch. As reported by crypto.news, the network reached $500 million in daily Uniswap volume within eight days and moved behind only Ethereum mainnet for daily activity at that stage.
Crypto.news also reported that Robinhood Chain attracted more than $70 million in bridged Ether during its first week, while total value locked moved above $106 million. The new fee proposals would allow Uniswap governance to capture part of the trading activity generated on the network and route it into the burn mechanism.
The Robinhood proposal uses the same cross-chain governance pattern applied to Arbitrum One. If approved, governance messages would travel from Ethereum to Robinhood Chain, where contracts would redirect the relevant protocol fees toward TokenJar.
Uniswap v4 requires a different fee system
Activating fees on v4 requires a different structure because v4 pools can use hooks and dynamic fees. The proposal introduces a V4FeePolicy contract to calculate protocol fees and a V4FeeAdapter to apply governance rules and collect the proceeds.
The first v4 vote covers three categories: static-fee pools, pools launched through continuous clearing auctions and aggregator-hook pools. A later proposal will cover Celo, Soneium, Worldchain, X Layer and Zora because Uniswap’s GovernorBravo contract limits the number of actions in one governance proposal.
Uniswap’s fee-switch model has linked protocol activity with UNI burns since the UNIfication overhaul. The July votes would extend that system to v4 for the first time and add Robinhood Chain’s v2 and v3 activity if governance approves both measures.
