The Uniswap protocol is a great one, but many of its tokens’ growth is not directly tied to the protocol itself. As a result, the protocol is strong, but the token price performance is rather average. Let’s look at the tokenomics of $UNI .

Burn mechanism:
Last year, Uniswap destroyed 100 million UNI tokens in a one-time treasury burn, compensating for the historical uncollected fee period. This provided strong support for the coin price. After that, it will continue to repurchase and burn $UNI by extracting 0.05% of trading fees and the Unichain sequencer fees. This is closely linked to the protocol’s development.

Staking and lockups:
Users can choose to burn to get rewards—by locking UNI and burning a portion of tokens to unlock their share of protocol fees—or they can choose native staking, which means locking UNI to receive 65% of the chain net income distribution.

Governance voting:
By holding UNI, you can participate in community governance votes.

UNI’s Tokenomics are continuously being improved. From the deflationary mechanism of burn-and-repurchase to lockup incentives and governance-vote reward mechanisms for holders, all of these provide strong support and momentum for the token price.

I feel there’s no reason not to buy into $UNI and keep holding it.