{"id":68017,"date":"2022-10-03T18:09:02","date_gmt":"2022-10-03T15:09:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=68017"},"modified":"2025-09-07T11:46:46","modified_gmt":"2025-09-07T08:46:46","slug":"sushi-community-names-new-head-chef","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/sushi-community-names-new-head-chef\/","title":{"rendered":"Sushi community names new Head Chef"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jared Grey won the vote for the post of executive director of Sushi, or &#8216;Head Chef&#8217;, as the role is called in the project.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\ud83c\udf89 The community has voted and the results are in\u2026<\/p>\n<p>With nearly 11 out of 13 mln votes in favor \u2014 we&#8217;re delighted to welcome Head Chef Jared Grey <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jaredgrey?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@jaredgrey<\/a> to the Sushi family! \ud83d\udc68\ud83c\udffc\u200d\ud83c\udf73\ud83c\udf63<\/p>\n<p>\u26a1\ufe0fSnapshot: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/kInJSV6eup\">https:\/\/t.co\/kInJSV6eup<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Stay tuned for Jared&#8217;s next steps, interviews &#038; more! \ud83d\udcfb <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/zzVoRvHqu0\">pic.twitter.com\/zzVoRvHqu0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 SushiSwap (@SushiSwap) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SushiSwap\/status\/1576905099162439680?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 3, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Participants in the decentralized autonomous organization Sushi DAO cast 11 million votes for him\u2014more than 83.5%. In second place of five, Andy Forman of EY, the consulting firm, received 12.51%.<\/p>\n<p>Voting opened on September 26 and closed on October 3.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/BSIK-N8cDbv8QGgUsPL22DF8xAyjIA7os_xcaEsOGIubgSfa-_4ymOp2ftX-UU0GZEgzLnxY7FTueTQ81jccUnxw1T1E5IIXAIYkbEgC_dp6TdRocOfmAuFE1WpFp4WKSMCVMp3pHsv61tWTOx6aEXq1Qi3edLCUBY0duLp_ymijeRwt1oeoQrA06w\" alt=\"Sushi community selects new Head Chef\"\/><figcaption>Data: Sushi DAO.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Grey has a background in business development and IT consulting. As CEO, he led the cryptocurrency exchange Bitfineon and the DeFi project Eons Finance.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>\u2018It is a great honour to assume the role of Head Chef at Sushi. The trust placed in me to help shape the next stage of the protocol\u2019s development gives me pause for reflection on what Sushi stands for as a project for the entire community,\u2019 Grey said.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">I&#8217;m honored &#038; excited to accept the Head Chef role at <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SushiSwap?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@SushiSwap<\/a>. The trust the community &#038; team have placed in me to help shape the next stage of the Sushi protocol gives me pause &#038; reflection on what Sushi stands for, a community project for everyone. \/1<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Jared Grey (@jaredgrey) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jaredgrey\/status\/1576912068992794624?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 3, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>In September 2020, the anonymous founder and first head of Sushi under the alias Nomi stepped down. This occurred amid accusations of <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/sushiswap-administrator-triggers-50-drop-in-token-price\">unauthorized withdrawal<\/a> of tokens worth about $14 million from the project&#8217;s developer fund.<\/p>\n<p>Nomi <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/anonymous-sushiswap-founder-returns-38000-eth-previously-withdrawn-to-the-defi-projects-development-fund\">returned the assets<\/a> within a few days and <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/sushiswap-administrator-hands-platform-control-to-ftx-founder\">handed over control<\/a> to the team led by FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried.<\/p>\n<p>Nomi&#8217;s successor as Head Chef was Maki, who left in September 2021.<\/p>\n<p>In December the project <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/sushiswap-cto-resigns-amid-internal-tensions\">lost its Chief Technical Officer<\/a>. Joseph Delong left amid internal <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/sushiswap-cto-threatens-to-quit-amid-internal-disagreements\">disagreements within the team<\/a>, failing to secure developer support.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier in May, the Sushi community proposed discussing <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/sushiswap-proposes-creating-a-legal-structure-to-reduce-risks\">the creation of a legal structure<\/a> for the project.<\/p>\n<p>Read ForkLog&#8217;s Bitcoin news on our Telegram \u2014 cryptocurrency news, prices and analysis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jared Grey won the vote for the post of executive director of Sushi, or &#8216;Head Chef&#8217;, as the role is called in the project.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":68018,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"1","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1379],"class_list":["post-68017","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-sushiswap"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"12","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68017","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68017"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68017\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68019,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68017\/revisions\/68019"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68018"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}