The post new era for DeFi or ‘a sad day for DAOs’? appeared com. Uniswap founder Hayden Adams yesterday announced his proposal to activate the long-awaited UNI fee-switch on the decentralized finance (DeFi) sector’s leading exchange. Widely expected to pass this time, the move would mark a significant milestone for DeFi. but not everyone is convinced. The proposal The proposal would see a portion of fees, which currently go to liquidity providers (LPs), redirected to the buy-and-burn of UNI. For most pools, this would be a sixth of the total fees, with some of the lower tiers coughing up 25%. One hundred million UNI will be burned to represent the amount that “would have been burned if fees were on from the beginning.” Sequencer fees from Unichain will also go towards the UNI burn, while other features would look to earn fees on external pools and capture MEV on the protocol. The wildly unpopular front-end fees which have, to date, made almost $180 million for Uniswap Labs, will be abolished. > As part of this, Labs will stop collecting fees on its interface, wallet, and API to supercharge distribution and adoption of the Uniswap protocol llama didnt expect this ngl 0xngmi is hiring (@0xngmi) November 10, 2025 Read more: Uniswap’s new trading fee neglects UNI holders Despite multiple fruitless attempts, the UNI fee-switch has yet to make it across the finish line. Legal worries have often been cited as a reason to hold back; Adams refers to this as “a hostile regulatory environment that cost thousands of hours and tens of millions in legal fees.” The Trump Administration’s more permissive regulatory landscape may have eased earlier nerves. Coming this time from founder Adams (who talks as if it’s a done deal), it.