Uniswap burned $1.15 million of UNI on Sept. 4, the first time daily burn value crossed $1 million, as trading on Robinhood Chain hit a record $3 billion in daily DEX volume. Robinhood Chain contributed roughly 150,000 of the 184,000 UNI tokens destroyed that day, more than 80 percent of the total.
A single day of trading on Robinhood Chain pushed Uniswap's token burn past a milestone it had never reached before: $1.15 million of UNI destroyed on Sept. 4, according to Wu Blockchain Data Center.
The dollar value of the protocol's daily burn crossed the seven-figure threshold for the first time. Uniswap removes UNI from circulation by using a portion of trading fees to buy and destroy tokens, so burn output rises in step with swap volume on the network.
A total of 184,000 UNI were destroyed that day, the second-largest daily amount on record, with roughly 150,000 tokens — more than 80 percent of the total — tied to trading on Robinhood Chain. On the same day, daily decentralized-exchange volume on that network topped $3 billion for the first time, with Uniswap accounting for as much as 98 percent of the activity, per Wu Blockchain. The remaining 34,000 UNI burned came from the rest of the ecosystem.
Robinhood Chain is an Ethereum layer-two network launched by Robinhood, the Nasdaq-listed brokerage, and built on Arbitrum's technology. The burn mechanism stems from the UNIfication governance proposal passed Dec. 25, authored by Uniswap founder Hayden Adams and the Uniswap Foundation, which also triggered a one-time destruction of 100 million UNI from the treasury, about 16 percent of supply. Protocol fees collected in a TokenJar contract are converted into UNI and sent to a burn address, a system that applies to select v2 and v3 pools on Ethereum mainnet and to sequencer fees from Uniswap's own layer two, Unichain.
Total UNI burned has since crossed 100 million tokens, and the fee-based burn has accelerated as Robinhood Chain volume builds. UNI jumped roughly 30 percent when the proposal was announced and has risen more than 130 percent over 90 days, though the move reflects both the shrinking supply and broader speculation around the network's growth rather than the burn alone.
With Robinhood Chain contributing 150,000 UNI to a single day's burn and daily DEX volume now above $3 billion, the annualized burn rate is running well above the roughly 4 million UNI projected when the fee switch first activated. Governance votes have proposed extending the burn to Robinhood Chain and newer v4 pools, a step that would tie UNI's supply trajectory even more closely to the network's trading depth. Whether the pace holds beyond Sept. 4 is an open question, but the day established Robinhood Chain as a force capable of reshaping UNI's burn record in a single session.
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