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Quick Take
  • From Uniswap’s long-awaited fee switch to Hyperliquid’s proposed billion-dollar token burn, the coming days mark a decisive moment for multiple ecosystems.
  • Uniswap (UNI), Hyperliquid (HYPE), Aster (ASTER), and Huma Finance (HUMA) each have protocol-level changes scheduled between December 22 and December 25.
  • This places token holders and validators at the center of critical decisions as 2025 draws to a close.
  • Voting on Uniswap’s UNIfication proposal concludes on December 25, potentially ending years of debate around protocol fees and value capture for UNI holders.

What Happened

From Uniswap’s long-awaited fee switch to Hyperliquid’s proposed billion-dollar token burn, the coming days mark a decisive moment for multiple ecosystems.

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Uniswap (UNI), Hyperliquid (HYPE), Aster (ASTER), and Huma Finance (HUMA) each have protocol-level changes scheduled between December 22 and December 25.

Market Context

As the crypto market heads into the final week before Christmas, several major altcoins are approaching governance votes and tokenomics shifts that could materially alter their long-term supply dynamics.

Voting on Uniswap’s UNIfication proposal concludes on December 25, potentially ending years of debate around protocol fees and value capture for UNI holders. Uniswap founder Hayden Adams also confirmed that voting for the Unification proposal is now live.

Migrate governance-owned Unisocks liquidity to v4 on Unichain and burn the LP position

Amid this fray, the Uniswap token, UNI, rallied by 30% on Sunday. As of this writing, UNI was trading for $6.21, up by over 15% in the last 24 hours.

Why It Matters

According to the proposal summary, voting “For” signals support to:

Hyperliquid’s governance process reaches its own deadline on December 24, when validators finalize a vote to formally recognize nearly $1 billion worth of HYPE tokens as permanently burned from its Assistance Fund. This could remove over 10% of HYPE from circulating and total supply.

Details

This places token holders and validators at the center of critical decisions as 2025 draws to a close.

Uniswap’s Fee Switch Vote Heads Toward Christmas Deadline

The proposal, jointly developed by Uniswap Labs and the Uniswap Foundation, would activate protocol fees across the ecosystem. It would also burn 100 million UNI from the treasury, an amount designed to reflect what would have been burned had fees been active from inception.

Turn on Uniswap protocol fees and use them to burn UNI

Send Unichain sequencer fees to the same burn mechanism

Build Protocol Fee Discount Auctions (PFDA)

Develop aggregator hooks for Uniswap v4

Burn 100 million UNI from the treasury

Refocus Labs entirely on protocol development

Uniswap Foundation confirmed momentum heading into the on-chain vote, stating:

“Last month, we posted a governance proposal to turn on protocol fees & align incentives across the Uniswap ecosystem… UNIfication passed snapshot with 63M+ votes in favor. Tomorrow, the proposal moves to on-chain vote,” Uniswap said on X (Twitter).

If approved, the proposal will enter a two-day time lock before execution, after which the burn and fee switch will go live immediately.

Hyperliquid Validators Vote on $1 Billion HYPE Burn

“The Hyper Foundation is proposing a validator vote to formally recognize the Assistance Fund HYPE as burned, removing the tokens permanently from the circulating and total supply,” the Hyper Foundation explained.

The Assistance Fund holds $998,965,886.59, mainly in spot holdings at a system-controlled address.