UNISWAP MIGHT BE COMMITTING SUICIDE
Uniswap CEo @haydenzadams dropped their UNIfication proposal yesterday, and the DeFi crowd is split down the middle.
The plan: flip the fee switch, take 10% of trading fees, use it to buy back and burn UNI.
Reformed governance, delegates get paid, token becomes productive.
Standard playbook for turning a governance token into something with actual cashflow.
Problem is, they're not taxing traders.
They're taxing liquidity providers.
The CEO of Dromos Labs (team behind @AerodromeFi) immediately called it a strategic disaster.
His point is dead simple - if you cut LP profitability, liquidity moves somewhere else.
And there's no shortage of DEXs with better economics for LPs.
Aerodrome's ve(3,3) model being exhibit A.
Now obviously the guy has incentive to trash-talk the competition.
But he's not wrong about the risk.
@Uniswap's entire advantage has always been depth of liquidity. If that starts bleeding out to protocols that treat LPs better, the dominance thesis falls apart fast.
Then Arthur Hayes ( @CryptoHayes ) bought 28,670 $UNI right after the announcement dropped.
So while critics are calling it a mistake, smart money is positioning long.
My take: Uniswap is betting their brand and volume are strong enough that LPs will eat the lower returns just to stay on the biggest exchange.
That's a massive assumption when competitors are actively undercutting them on economics.
If it works, $UNI reprices as a cashflow asset and this looks brilliant in hindsight.
If LPs start rotating out, we'll look back at this as the moment Uniswap gave away the game.
Next few months will tell us everything.


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