Uniswap is about to make a major turn. Looking at recent governance proposals, it’s clear that the protocol’s monetization strategy has become much more serious.
Until now, Uniswap has returned 100% of trading fees to LPs (liquidity providers). But that changed with the end-of-year “UNIfication” initiative. The new proposal this time is the second phase of that effort. After introducing a fee switch on the Ethereum mainnet, the next goal is to expand it across all L2s.
The targets are eight Layer 2 networks: Arbitrum, Base, Celo, OP Mainnet, Soneium, X Layer, Worldchain, and Zora. Why L2? The