$UNI finally releases its long-awaited move after 5 years.

In the past, everyone said it was the "most successful but useless token"—no dividends, no buybacks, no value capture.

But this proposal directly addresses all those shortcomings.
🔥 Activates protocol fees
🔥 Retroactively burns 100 million tokens
🔥 Fully binds protocol growth

On the same day, $UNI surged over 40%, marking a "value reboot" for DeFi.

1️⃣ Fee switch finally turned on
All protocol fees will go into a contract pool (TokenJar), only released when $UNI is burned.
Effect = actual "buyback + burn."
In simple terms, the more the protocol is used, the scarcer the token becomes.

2️⃣ Unichain’s sequencer revenue
After deducting L1 costs, all proceeds are used to burn $UNI.
L2 earnings feed back into the main protocol, completing the value cycle.

3️⃣ Aggregator Hooks launched
Uniswap will be able to aggregate liquidity from other DEXes,
and extract protocol fees from these external liquidity pools,
meaning the more trading activity, the faster $UNI is burned.

4️⃣ Labs stops charging fees for frontend, wallets, and APIs
Abandons revenue to give all traffic to protocol growth.
This step is very sincere and shows a genuine desire to expand the ecosystem.

5️⃣ Retroactively burns 100 million UNI
This portion comes from the treasury, representing the burn amount that should have occurred if fees had been active earlier.
Directly compensates for the past five years of inactivity.

6️⃣ Introduces PFDA auction mechanism
Internalizes MEV, redistributing some arbitrage profits back to $UNI ’s burns.
Simply put: the more trading and MEV, the faster $UNI is burned.

In the past, $UNI ’s biggest controversy was "the protocol makes money but the token has no value."
This time, Uniswap has completely bridged that value flow gap.
@haydenzadams not only turned on the fee switch but redefined how DeFi protocols should benefit token holders.

Today, $UNI has a brand, a community, and a clear value logic,
making it one of the most easily pitchable DeFi blue chips to institutions.

From today on,
Either your protocol captures value, or it will be phased out by the times.