The project's yearly runway demand was decreased from $9 million to $5 million after evaluating expenses, but developers claimed the treasury still only has enough runway to last for around 18 months.
Lead developer Jared Gray suggested that Kanpai, a protocol for fee-diversion, be set to 100% of fees redirected to the Treasury multisig for a year, or until new token allocation and incentive compensation are established, to alleviate the shortfall.
The plan only addresses a short-term issue that new tokenomics will take some time to deploy, according to engineers.
The initiative received varied comments from the community. Some believed that denying consumers the service charges they are entitled to felt contrary to the project's main criticisms. While others criticized the sensationalized tone adopted by developers to emphasize the urgency of the problem.
However, the concept, according to the developers, is meant to guarantee sushi operations in the long run. In the proposal, Gray highlighted that bear market circumstances provide various obstacles for projects and teams, and recently have seen several notable projects lay off significant employees or go bankrupt.
He said it makes little sense for Sushi to pursue a similar route when it has the chance to seize its one substantial source of money and return it to the government for the benefit of everybody. Gray stated that the Sushi team has raised more money by obtaining many multi-million dollar partner transactions, but he cautioned that depending on such corporate development agreements is only half of a successful business plan to safeguard Sushi's future.