SUSHI token
SUSHI is the governance and utility token of Sushiswap.
SUSHI token is used for
- Governance of the protocol (fork of COMP).
- Staking for xSUSHI to earn 0.05% trading fee
What is Sushiswap?
A decentralized exchange and fork of Uniswap protocol.
How does Sushiswap work?
On Sushiswap users can:
- Swap tokens
- Provide liquidity and earn trading fees + Sushi.
- Stake Sushi for xSushi and earn from trading fees.
- Trade with Limit orders
- Lend/borrow with Kashi in Bentobox.
Upcoming use-cases
- Cross-chain
- Options
- Gasless transactions
- Franchised pools
- and more.
Sushi is also releasing a new typ of AMM called trident with concentrated liquidity like Uniswap v3 and weighted pools like Balancer.
80 SUSHI is created per Ethereum block.
- 10% to Multisig-controlled devfund.
- 90% Yield farm
Governance
Liquidity providers on Sushiswap
Earn
- Provide liquidity into a pool and earn SUSHI.
- Earn trading fees in the pool.
Of the 0.3% trading fees:
- 0.25% goes to the provider and
- 0.05% is used to buy SUSHI tokens and is shared between xSushi holders.
More in this post.
SUSHI tokenomics
Max supply: 250 000 000
Original issuance when the project launched
- 100 000 blocks x 1000 SUSHI = 100 000 000 SUSHI
- 100 000 / 5500 = 18,18
- The first ~18 days.
- 100 000 000 SUSHI
- Then per day
- 5500 x 100 = 55000 SUSHI / day