About one-sixth of swap fees, roughly 5 basis points per trade, now flows into TokenJar contracts instead of going straight to liquidity providers.
TokenJar contracts are immutable: the only way to release the collected fees is to buy UNI on the open market and destroy it permanently.
A July 2026 governance vote extended the fee switch to v4 pools on Arbitrum, Base, BNB Chain, Polygon, OP Mainnet and Robinhood Chain.
Daily protocol revenue rose from about $114,000 to roughly $325,000 after the multi-chain expansion, according to on-chain tracking.
Ark Invest estimates roughly $90 million in annualized burns — real, but still a small slice of UNI's total market value. Volume drives the pace.
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