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Uniswap Governance Considers Extending Protocol Fees to Circle's Arc Layer 1

A temperature check proposes activating v2, v3, and v4 protocol fees on Arc, routing proceeds through Wormhole to burn mainnet UNI.

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A governance temperature check proposes turning on Uniswap v2, v3, and v4 protocol fees on Circle's Arc Layer 1 network .

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Accumulated Arc fees will be routed through Wormhole NTT contracts to burn canonical UNI on Ethereum mainnet .

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The rollout uses Uniswap's expedited process, bypassing RFC stage for a five-day Snapshot vote before an onchain ballot .

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Context

Uniswap initiated protocol fee activations in late December of last year on Ethereum mainnet and has since expanded fee collection across eleven additional chains using TokenJar…

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Why it matters

Arc liquidity pools across v2, v3, and v4 will allocate a portion of trading fees to a burn mechanism, allowing searchers to buy fee inventory by burning synthetic UNI.

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What to watch

The outcome of the temperature check Snapshot vote and the deployment of remaining fee infrastructure contracts ahead of an onchain vote.

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Sources

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  • gov.uniswap.org
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