SushiSwap was founded by a pseudonymous entity known as "Chef Nomi", along with two other pseudonymous co-founders known as "sushiswap" and "0xMaki", who handle SushiSwap's code, product development, and business operations. SushiSwap launched in September 2020 as a fork of Uniswap, meaning by making a change to the Uniswap's protocol and basic set of rulesaiming, to diversify the AMM market and add additional features. The SUSHI token had no premine, meaning it couldn't be minted before the cryptocurrency was launched to the public — which can sometimes be the case for other cryptocurrencies — and was officially launched at Ethereum block number 10,750,000, starting with a supply of zero tokens. As of November 2023, SUSHI had a circulating supply of 231.87 M SUSHI.