On February 26, the Uniswap governance community approved a key proposal to expand the protocol fee conversion mechanism to eight additional blockchains and automatically charge fees on all v3 liquidity pools by default. Driven by this positive development, UNI has risen approximately 15% in the past 24 hours, significantly outperforming Bitcoin and Ethereum during the same period, as the market prices in an upgrade to its tokenomics model.
According to the proposal, the new mechanism will replace the manual activation of fee conversion on individual pools with a layered v3 fee system, and will unify fee collection through the v3OpenFeeAdapter. This means that newly created v3 liquidity pools will have fee conversion enabled by default, expanding the protocol’s revenue capture across multiple chains and covering more long-tail trading pairs.
The core logic of fee conversion involves reallocating part of the trading fees from liquidity providers to the protocol treasury, used for UNI buybacks, token burns, and treasury accumulation, thereby creating a more direct link between trading volume and token value. Estimates suggest this adjustment could generate an additional approximately $27 million in annual revenue, which, combined with the current annual burn scale of about $34 million, significantly enhances the deflationary outlook for the Uniswap token.
Data shows that since the gradual resumption of fee conversion at the end of 2025, over $5.5 million has been burned, and the protocol’s profitability has begun to improve. According to DeFi Llama, Uniswap recorded approximately $3.12 million in gross profit in the first quarter of 2026, ending several quarters of near-zero profitability and reflecting a shift in DeFi protocol revenue structures.
However, increasing protocol fees may also impact liquidity competition on Layer-2 networks. For high-frequency traders and market makers, fee sensitivity is high; if costs rise, some liquidity may shift to other protocols with lower fees. Therefore, the future price trajectory of UNI will still depend on key factors such as multi-chain trading volume growth, the sustainability of protocol revenue, and the strength of UNI token burns.
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