Uniswap Proposal Expands Fee Collection and Burn Mechanism to BNB Chain and Polygon

Uniswap’s Proposal 96 would extend its UNIfication fee-to-burn system to BNB Chain, Polygon, and Celo, with voting set for May 24, 2026, as the protocol broadens fee collection across more networks.

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Summary

Uniswap DAO’s Proposal 96 would expand the UNIfication program by activating protocol fee collection and UNI token burning on BNB Chain, Polygon, and Celo, with voting scheduled to begin on May 24, 2026. If approved, it would replicate the fee-to-burn infrastructure already live on Ethereum, Arbitrum, Base, OP Mainnet, and other chains, using TokenJar to collect protocol fees and Firepit to require searchers to burn an equivalent value of UNI before bridging the burned tokens back to Ethereum and sending them to the 0xdead address. The proposal would set the v2 fee recipient and v3 ownership structure on BNB Chain and Polygon, while Celo would require extra changes after a previous proposal failed because of a configuration error. Earlier Proposals 94 and 95 passed in March 2026 with more than 62 million and 77 million UNI votes in favor, and if Proposal 96 passes, UNIfication would cover 11 chains in addition to Ethereum mainnet. According to DefiLlama data cited in the report, Uniswap has generated $5.57 billion in cumulative fees, about $477 million in annualized fees, and holds $3.3 billion in total value locked across more than 40 chains.

Terms & Concepts
  • Protocol fee: A portion of trading fees collected by the protocol itself rather than paid entirely to liquidity providers.
  • TokenJar: A UNIfication contract that receives protocol fees collected on supported chains before the burn process is completed.
  • Firepit: A companion UNIfication contract that requires UNI to be burned in equivalent value before collected fees can be withdrawn.