THELOGICALINDIAN - SushiSwaps CTO says that Uniswap was accustomed best analysis due to VC influence
SushiSwap CTO Joseph Delong has accused Optimism, a Layer 2 ascent project, of giving best analysis to Uniswap.
SushiSwap CTO Speaks Out Against Optimism
Sushiswap and Uniswap are two of the better decentralized exchanges on Ethereum. Recently, due to Ethereum’s scalability issues and aerial gas fees, both exchanges accept been exploring Layer 2 solutions in adjustment to handle added transactions.
Today, SushiSwap appear why it chose to use Arbitrum over Optimism as a Layer 2 ascent band-aid for its decentralized exchange.
SushiSwap CTO Joseph Delong claimed that Optimism gave best analysis to Uniswap admitting claiming to be a community-driven project.
On Twitter, Delong said that Optimism hindered SushiSwap’s barrage and pushed Uniswap to barrage first. He said that SushiSwap had deployed its decentralized barter on the Kovan testnet. SushiSwap was in the action of debugging and deploying a final adaptation when it was told Uniswap would be accustomed the befalling instead.
Describing SushiSwap’s affairs with Optimism and how it was angry bottomward by the project, Delong said:
“After a continued altercation with a lot of dancing about the apriorism we assuredly had to ask point blank, “Are we activity to be advised appropriately on deployment?” That is back the aggregation told us point bare that Uniswap “had to go first”. Meaning we were boxed out of deployment until Uniswap.”
Delong additionally told CryptoBriefing that SushiSwap had a alarm with Optimism above-mentioned to the Uniswap barrage and said that the two teams had agreed on accomplishing above-mentioned to this interruption.
Then, SushiSwap absitively to barrage on Arbitrum instead, which the activity considers a added “neutral” platform. The Arbitrum accomplishing has already gone live. Meanwhile, Uniswap V3 was deployed to the Optimism mainnet in July.
Delong Said VCs Influenced the Decision
Speaking with CryptoBriefing, Delong said he believed Optimism advantaged Uniswap because of access from the investors Andreesen Horowitz (a16z) and Paradigm. Both funds accept fabricated investments in Uniswap and Optimism, as able-bodied abounding added arch crypto projects. According to Delong, the two VCs may accept “colluded” to access and account their vested projects.
Delong said that although this is the first time that this has happened to SushiSwap with a activity backed by Paradigm and a16z, agnate situations accept ahead occurred with added projects.
“This has happened alert before, so this time we are demography a stand. We disagree with Paradigm and a16z colluding with their portfolio projects for best treatment. We chose to allege out about Optimism to accelerate a bulletin about collusionary behavior in the DeFi space.”
Previously, a16z was accused of leveraging its access aural the DeFi association back it allegedly delegated UNI tokens to vote for a Uniswap lobbying accumulation alleged the DeFi Education Fund. The armamentarium was afterwards slammed by DeFi enthusiasts for abridgement of accuracy afterwards it awash bisected of its Uniswap admission for $10 million.
Optimism Defends Itself
Many arresting abstracts in the DeFi amplitude batten in abutment of Delong. DeFi Architect and architect Yearn Finance took to twitter, and said: “This happens a lot added than bodies think. DeFi isn’t actual DeFi,” apropos to Optimism’s best analysis against Uniswap.
Anthony Sassano, an Ethereum drillmaster and investor, agreed and said he was “disappointed” to see the incident, afore abacus “there’s no abode in this ecosystem for belted gardens.”
In response, Optimism has denied the allegation of any best treatment, and claimed instead that Uniswap was deployed aboriginal because “they affianced with us 1.5 years ago, continued afore Sushiswap.” Optimism added that it was not “playing favorites” but afterward the “first in, aboriginal out” principle. The aggregation now affairs on whitelisting projects “as bound as possible.”
