$UNI
Burning 100 million units: A shock in supply or noise in the market?
The 100 million UNI tokens held represent about 16% of the current circulating supply in the market. For those looking for the "impact of UNI token burning on the price," this represents one of the most significant inflationary events in DeFi history.
Reducing the supply significantly: Reducing the circulating supply from about 629 million to 529 million units creates immediate scarcity.
"In the switch": Besides the one-time burn, the core value of the proposal lies in an automatic buy-and-burn mechanism. A portion of the trading fees (0.05% on V2) will now be used to continuously buy and burn UNI tokens. For investors looking at "yield trends in DeFi for 2026," this means that UNI is turning into an inflationary asset backed by an annual trading volume of 4 trillion dollars for the protocol.
