The price of uniswap (UNI), the governance token of the decentralized exchange of the same name, rose 28% within 24 hours on February 26, 2026. It rose from $3.35 (USD) to $4.29 (USD) during this period. The price has since fallen to $3.93, which still represents a 5% increase.
The price has recovered to around $4, returning to the price range for the first time in two weeks. The following graph shows UNI’s performance since early February.
Even if there is some backlash, Therefore, UNI ranks as the 10th best performing crypto asset. 100 most uppercase letters in the last 24 hours.
price increase Driven by Uniswap Governance Proposal The initiative will be voted on from now until March 4, 2026. If approved, this initiative would introduce changes to the protocol’s commission scheme and its multi-network scope.
Uniswap’s revenue expansion
initiative Proposed extension of Uniswap fee changes On December 25th, it was approved for eight additional networks: Arbitrum, Base, Celo, OP Mainnet, Soneium, X Layer, Worldchain, and Zora.
As reported by CriptoNoticias, this mechanism redirects a portion of the platform’s trading fees from liquidity providers to the protocol’s own treasury. In this way, the fee income earned will be used for UNI buybacks, burns, and treasury growth.
According to Entropy Advisors, the organization promoting Arbitrum’s development, expanding this mechanism could increase annual revenue by approximately $27 million. In this way, the market could benefit from UNI buybacks, burns, and increases in government bonds.
To date, the income from this mechanism has allowed Uniswap to burn over $5.5 million in UNI, as the following graph shows. Burn reflects a token leaving circulation. Reduces supply, prompting price increases upon request.
Another point included in the proposal is to activate commissions in the v3 version pool through a new system based on “levels”. In this model, each liquidity pool that shares the same fee level has the same protocol fees, without the need for separate votes.
Due to restrictions on the actions that can be voted on, this initiative will be split into two parallel governance votes. In this sense, Price fluctuations may occur in the UNI market depending on how the results are perceived..
This vote comes at a time when the cryptocurrency market is experiencing a downturn. The price of Bitcoin (BTC) has fallen nearly 50% from its all-time high of $126,000 (USD) on October 6, 2025.
