Return 12.5M Delegated Tokens to the Governance Timelock

Background & Motivation

These UNI were delegated from the treasury in 2022 and 2023 – 2.5M to the Uniswap Foundation and 10M to a group of active delegates - during periods of low governance participation. The delegations aimed to establish an active delegate base when quorum faced risks.

The governance landscape has transformed significantly. Token holders actively delegate voting power, and since DUNI's establishment, passed proposals have averaged roughly 75 million votes in turnout, exceeding quorum by approximately 88%. Over 50 delegates now hold more than 1M UNI in voting power.

Undelegating these tokens addresses potential misalignment created by the Franchiser mechanism itself. While selected delegates participated actively in governance, the Franchiser didn't ensure structural alignment between voting power and economic exposure. This misalignment should not persist when the original implementation rationale no longer applies.

Specification

This proposal invokes recallMany on the FranchiserFactory contract (0xf754A7E347F81cFdc70AF9FbCCe9Df3D826360FA) to retrieve all UNI currently delegated through the Franchiser system, returning the recalled tokens to the Governance Timelock (0x1a9C8182C09F50C8318d769245beA52c32BE35BC).

Eight Franchiser delegations are targeted for undelegation, totaling ~12.5M UNI:

The UF Franchiser has accumulated ~1.19 UNI of unrelated inbound transfers from third parties since it was funded. recall always sweeps the full balance (the Franchiser contract has no partial-recall option), so those stray amounts will return to the Treasury along with the original 2.5M.