The teams at Uniswap Labs and Uniswap Foundation have introduced the UNIfication governance proposal, which includes activating a ‘fee switch’ to reward UNI token holders. The asset’s price surged by 30%.
At the time of writing, the coin is trading at $8.76, having gained ~70% over the week and ~41% over the month, according to CoinGecko.
The initiative’s co-authors include protocol founder Hayden Adams, Uniswap Foundation’s executive director Devin Walsh, and researcher Kenneth Ng.
The plan involves directing a portion of trading fees towards burning UNI to reduce supply. Sequencer fees from Unichain will also be used for this purpose.
The initiative includes a one-time removal of 100 million tokens from the project’s treasury. This amount represents fees that could have been burned since UNI’s launch.
Additionally, Uniswap Labs will cease charging fees for using its interface, wallet, and API.
UNIfication also proposes relocating teams from Foundation to Labs. The latter is responsible for the core development of the protocol and the L2 network Unichain. Following the reorganization, the company will assume operational functions for ecosystem development and funding.
“We propose a long-term model for the Uniswap ecosystem, where protocol usage incentivizes UNI burning,” the proposal states.
According to Adams, the team delayed implementing the fee collection mechanism “largely due to a hostile regulatory environment.”
Today, I’m incredibly excited to make my first proposal to Uniswap governance on behalf of @Uniswap alongside @devinawalsh and @nkennethk
This proposal turns on protocol fees and aligns incentives across the Uniswap ecosystem
Uniswap has been my passion and singular focus for… pic.twitter.com/Ee9bKDric5
— Hayden Adams 🦄 (@haydenzadams) November 10, 2025
“UNI was launched in 2020, but for the past 5 years, Labs couldn’t fully participate in Uniswap governance. Today, that ends!” declared the head of the exchange.
In October, Uniswap added support for the Solana network in its web application.