Joseph Delong, the chief technology officer of SushiSwap, the thirteenth largest decentralized exchange, or DEX, by trading volume, submitted his resignation from the role. Clarifying his decision.
Delong gave the following statement:
“I wish Sushi the best and am saddened that Sushi is so imperiled within and without. The chaos that is occurring now is unlikely to result in a resolution that will leave the DAO as much more of a shadow than it once was without a radical structural transformation.”
Delong had previously voiced his disappointment over the failure for SushiSwap to launch on Optimism, a layer two scaling solution for Ethereum. He also claimed to receive little support from centralized exchanges about hackers’ identities after the SushiSwap’s token launchpad experienced a $3M hack.
Furthermore it appears that it wasn’t simply the technical setbacks of the project that played a role in Delong’s judgment. In a series of follow-up tweets after the announcement, Delong posted screenshots of alleged harassment from SushiSwap users, to which he then cited “it’s the community that does it for me.”
