# \[POLL\] Adding value to UNI tokens **URL:** \ **Category:** Requests for Comment\ **Created:** [October 9, 2020, 11:55pm UTC](https://gov.uniswap.org/t/poll-adding-value-to-uni-tokens/6952 "2020-10-09T23:55:11Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![marcangeloh](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/gov.uniswap.org/marcangeloh/32/1136_2.png) [@marcangeloh](https://gov.uniswap.org/u/marcangeloh)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2020, 11:55pm UTC](https://gov.uniswap.org/t/poll-adding-value-to-uni-tokens/6952/1 "2020-10-09T23:55:11Z")
Currently, UNI tokens are a governance token, and only a governance token, as such owning uni gives no utility of any sort in the day to day life. As such, liquidity miners are only incentivized to mine uni for a quick profit. Therefore, I propose the following. Firstly, I propose creating a pool of a part of all transactions handled by uniswap. This is to create a monetary incentive to stake and hold UNI tokens on it’s own. This pool can be an additional fee on top of the 0.35% dedicated to liquidity providers (due to the fact that the volatility on cryptos is big, a small additional percentage would not do much harm.) Alternatively, or additionally this can be taken from UNI miners. Lastly, I would propose utilizing this pool and offering a stake incentive on the UNI token, these staked tokens should also be usable in the governance, however the staking process should incentivize keeping the UNI token for a long duration of time. Therefore the allocation of the pool of dividends pays out depending on the amount of time you have been staking and the amount of your stake. _Poll ([view on site](https://gov.uniswap.org/t/poll-adding-value-to-uni-tokens/6952/1))_ _Poll ([view on site](https://gov.uniswap.org/t/poll-adding-value-to-uni-tokens/6952/1))_ ---
**Author:** ![Zer0dot](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/gov.uniswap.org/zer0dot/32/400_2.png) [@Zer0dot](https://gov.uniswap.org/u/Zer0dot)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2020, 2:52am UTC](https://gov.uniswap.org/t/poll-adding-value-to-uni-tokens/6952/2 "2020-10-10T02:52:48Z")
Love the discussion! But I do want to point out that UNI _already_ has a mechanism to take 0.05% fees on eligible pools. This is already implemented and simply needs to be “enabled” by governance once the fee switch is enabled. (~5 months) This would reduce liquidity providers’ fees to 0.25%. ---
**Author:** ![kolten](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/gov.uniswap.org/kolten/32/200_2.png) [@kolten](https://gov.uniswap.org/u/kolten)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2020, 2:59pm UTC](https://gov.uniswap.org/t/poll-adding-value-to-uni-tokens/6952/3 "2020-10-10T14:59:20Z")
You are correct. Closing this thread. ---
**Author:** ![kolten](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/gov.uniswap.org/kolten/32/200_2.png) [@kolten](https://gov.uniswap.org/u/kolten)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2020, 2:59pm UTC](https://gov.uniswap.org/t/poll-adding-value-to-uni-tokens/6952/4 "2020-10-10T14:59:23Z")