Burn rate raises the bar @StanChart's global head of digital assets research, Geoff Kendrick, said on Thursday that the $100 end-2030 price target he set for $UNI in June may already be too c
@StanChart's global head of digital assets research, Geoff Kendrick, said on Thursday that the $100 end-2030 price target he set for $UNI in June may already be too conservative. The trigger is a sharp rise in protocol revenue that is being used entirely to buy and burn UNI tokens.
Since July 27, @Uniswap protocol revenue has averaged $244,222 a day, roughly 2.4 times the pace seen in the prior period. Kendrick flagged the burn rate implied by that figure as unsustainable at current prices, a signal he read as bullish for the token's long-run valuation. UNI was trading at roughly $3.50 at the time of writing, down around 13% on the week.
Kendrick initiated coverage on UNI with a $100 price target by end-2030 on June 15, 2026. His staged roadmap called for UNI to reach $6.50 by end-2026, $20 in 2027, $40 in 2028, and $65 in 2029 before hitting $100 in 2030. The latest note suggests even that path may understate the protocol's earning power.
Around 60% of the recent revenue jump traces back to Robinhood Chain, which went live on July 1. The chain processed more than $6 billion in Uniswap swap volume within 10 days of its launch. Uniswap now handles 76.5% of all trading on the chain, with its pools moving $409 million in a single day.
Kendrick flagged the Uniswap-Robinhood integration as a mechanism to broaden Uniswap's addressable market beyond crypto-native users, reaching mainstream brokerage flows from Robinhood's millions of retail customers.
Two governance proposals also recently executed. The votes built on the UNIfication overhaul approved in December 2025, which connected Uniswap's protocol revenue to a UNI burn mechanism. One proposal activated protocol fees on v4 pools across seven chains including Robinhood Chain, while the second enabled v2 and v3 fees on Robinhood Chain specifically. Both proposals send new fees directly into the existing UNI burn system, removing tokens from circulation.
The pre-UNIfication supply of 1 billion tokens was fully inflationary. The post-upgrade model, sitting at approximately 895 million and falling, represents a fundamental shift in UNI's tokenomics.
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