SushiSwap
Swap, earn, stack yields, lend, borrow, leverage all on one decentralized, community driven platform. Welcome home to DeFi.
About
What is SushiSwap?
SushiSwap is a decentralized exchange (DEX) based on the Ethereum network and powered by customized automated market maker (AMM) smart contracts.
The use of the AMM model enables SushiSwap to solve liquidity problems. In addition to token swap services, SushiSwap offers yield farming, an ability to stake the protocol’s token SUSHI, lending and new token offerings.
History
SushiSwap was launched in August 2020 by anonymous developers hidden behind pseudonyms "Chef Nomi," "OxMaki" and "SushiSwap." Little information on the project’s founders was available, apart from their Twitter accounts.
In September 2020, Chef Nomi unilaterally withdrew one-quarter of the project's developer funding pool, a sum worth more than $13 mln at that time, causing major controversy in the crypto community. Following the ensuing accusations of fraud, Chef Nomi returned the funds and made an apology.
Roadmap
A group of anonymous developers founded SushiSwap. The MasterChef solution enabling the minting of SUSHI tokens was launched.
FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried started the liquidity movement, where around $800 mln worth of LP tokens were used to drain value from Uniswap. After that transfer, Uniswap returned to its previous volumes. Later, the SushiSwap community voted via Discord to create a multisig key to the SushiSwap smart contract.
The BentoBox lending solution was launched. It was designed to solve the protocol’s limitations by employing isolated lending pairs, on-chain and off-chain flexible oracles - liquid interest rates and contracts optimized for low gas.
SushiSwap partnered with Yearn.Finance.
The SushiSwap team introduced a new token launchpad called MISO, making it easier for developers to launch their products on the exchange. The original vision of MISO was to be a permissionless and hurdle-free token launchpad with an intuitive platform that would be used even by the least technical users.
Trident, a new AMM protocol built by the Sushi team, introduced new types of liquidity pools, marking a departure from the typical singular constant product pool used by other DeFi protocols.
