Decentralized exchange SushiSwap will soon redirect 100% of the platform’s trading fees to its treasury for operations and maintenance for one year’s duration.
The move came after CEO Jared Grey warned that the exchange “only has 1.5 years of treasury runway left,” even after slashing annual operating expenses from $9 million to $5 million amid the ongoing crypto winter.
In a separate proposal that passed , 99.85% of voters elected to “clawback” 10,936,284 unclaimed ($14.8 million) tokens awarded to early liquidity providers during the DEX’s launch in 2020. The rewards were available to SushiSwap users who provided trading liquidity for the exchange from August 2020 to February 2021 and had been open to claim for close to two years.
Some users argued that people have earned these SUSHI fair and square, and their claim to these assets should not be denied. Others said that they support the clawback as “idle SUSHI that can be put to better use.” The assets will be returned to the SushiSwap treasury.
SushiSwap, the sixth-largest DEX by 24-hour trading volume, has been hit hard by the crypto market downturn and product-market-fit woes. Last December and was reported that the DEX lost $30 million over 12 months alone on incentives for its liquidity providers due to unsustainable token emission rates.
