Key Highlights
- Uniswap governance has opened voting on two proposals to expand protocol fees across 12 blockchain networks.
- Robinhood Chain would join Ethereum, Base, Arbitrum, and other networks already participating in UNI fee burns.
- Governance is introducing a new v4 fee framework built around a centralized fee controller rather than individual pool settings.
Uniswap governance has begun voting on a new round of protocol fee proposals that would expand the protocol’s revenue collection and UNI burn mechanism across more blockchain networks, including Robinhood Chain and several major Uniswap v4 deployments.
The two proposals were published on Uniswap’s governance platform Agora, representing the next phase of the protocol’s long-running effort to activate protocol fees after years of leaving them largely dormant.
If approved, Robinhood Chain would become the latest network contributing protocol fees to Uniswap’s fee-burning system, while a new fee architecture would simultaneously roll out across Uniswap v4.
Voting is scheduled to begin on July 19 and end on July 26. If the proposal meets the required 40 million UNI quorum and receives majority approval, it will enter a mandatory two-day timelock before the changes are automatically executed on-chain. The delay serves as a final safeguard, allowing time to identify and address any issues before the smart contracts are implemented.
Uniswap expands UNI burns beyond Ethereum
Since protocol fees were first activated on Ethereum late last year, governance has gradually expanded the system to additional networks.
According to the proposal, fees are now live on 11 chains, including Ethereum, Base, Arbitrum, Polygon, Optimism, BNB Chain, World Chain, X Layer, Soneium, Celo, and Zora.
Uniswap founder Hayden Adams confirmed the governance proposals shortly after they were submitted, describing them as the next stage of the protocol fee rollout. In a post on X, Adams said governance is voting on activating protocol fees for Uniswap v2 and v3 on Robinhood Chain alongside protocol fees for Uniswap v4 across seven major blockchain networks.
He noted that all newly collected protocol fees would continue flowing into Uniswap’s existing UNI burn mechanism. Adams also said Robinhood Chain’s early trading activity could make the expansion particularly meaningful for UNI holders. “Based on current volumes, especially Robinhood, we expect the impact on UNI burn to be substantial,” he added.
His comments come after governance reported that the existing fee system burned a record 186,000 UNI in a single day last month.
Robinhood Chain added after rapid growth
One proposal focuses specifically on enabling protocol fees for Uniswap v2 and v3 on Robinhood Chain. According to the governance proposal, Uniswap’s deployment on the network has already processed more than $6 billion in cumulative swap volume since Robinhood Chain launched on July 1.
Rather than introducing a new fee model, the proposal extends the same infrastructure already operating on other supported chains. Protocol fees collected on Robinhood Chain would be routed into its TokenJar before ultimately being bridged back to Ethereum for UNI burns.
Earlier this month, Robinhood Chain surpassed Hyperliquid in daily decentralized exchange volume, processing more than $375 million in 24-hour DEX trading while attracting rising liquidity and bridged assets.
Uniswap v4 needs a different fee model
The remaining two proposals address Uniswap v4, whose hook-based architecture makes traditional fee activation more complicated. Unlike v2 and v3, where governance could simply assign protocol fees to individual pools, v4 allows developers to create custom hooks that dynamically adjust swap fees.
To handle that flexibility, governance proposes creating a V4 Fee Controller that calculates protocol fees based on governance-approved rules instead of fixed pool parameters.
The proposal introduces two contracts:
- V4FeePolicy, which determines protocol fees based on pool characteristics.
- V4FeeAdapter, which applies those fees and routes revenue to TokenJars.
Rather than configuring thousands of pools individually, governance would define fee rules for different categories of pools.
As the proposal explains: “Governance manages a handful of rules and overrides instead of an unbounded list of pools.”
Fees would roll out across 12 networks
The rollout has been divided into two governance proposals because GovernorBravo, Uniswap’s governance system, limits each proposal to a maximum of ten executable actions. The first proposal covers Ethereum, Base, Arbitrum, Optimism, Polygon, BNB Chain, and Robinhood Chain, while the second applies to Celo, World Chain, X Layer, Soneium, and Zora.
Initially, protocol fees would only be enabled for selected categories of Uniswap v4 pools, including standard liquidity pools, Continuous Clearing Auction (CCA) pools, and aggregator-hook pools.
Part of Uniswap’s broader evolution
The fee expansion comes during a period of broader changes across the Uniswap ecosystem. Earlier this month, Uniswap introduced the Uniswap Request for Comment (URC) framework, opening protocol design discussions to developers and community members before formal governance proposals are submitted.
The initiative is intended to make protocol development more transparent by allowing ideas to be debated and refined publicly before reaching governance votes.
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