Post-obit the sudden get out of SushiSwap's anonymous founder, many users have begun to speculate on the identity of this controversial effigy.

While some focused on the current maintainer of the project Sam Bankman-Fried, the CEO of FTX, others saw Ring Protocol's chief technology officer, Sorawit Suriyakarn, equally the person behind this projection.

The evidence cited primarily involved the Sushiswap.org domain, which is provably shown to be hosted on the aforementioned IP accost as Band Protocol's website.

In an email conversation with Cointelegraph, CEO of Ring Soravis Srinawakoon said that this evidence is misleading, and refuted all allegations that the project is behind SushiSwap.

He did concede that Suriyakarn was approached by Chef Nomi for a code review. Suriyakarn did provide such a review "to make sure no user funds will be lost," since BAND was i of the tokens that could be used to farm SUSHI. "We naturally wanted to support such an idea considering it could directly do good BAND holders and Sushiswap was not the only projection nosotros accept done such a affair," Srinawakoon added.

He went on to explain that the IP addresses are indeed the same, because both websites are hosted on Render — a hosting service that "has been gaining in popularity." It is true that many other completely unrelated websites are also located on the aforementioned accost, which seems to reinforce the idea that this is just a coincidence.

Other supposed "show" included similarities in the frontend lawmaking, pointing to similar names for some fashion files that share a mutual scheme of "main-chunk.css."

Srinawakoon said that this is simply the result of both using the React framework, a very popular frontend development tool. He stated that similar naming schemes could be found in any React app.

Finally, some pointed out that the SSL certificate for both websites was issued by the same authority, Let's Encrypt. This is in one case again common, with Cointelegraph itself using the same provider. Srinawakoon concluded:

"I promise this dispels some misconceptions from some people that try to acquaintance Ring with Sushiswap. As stated in our official response, while we may accept helped them in the beginning, we are not the creator of Sushiswap nor take a stake in them."

The identity of the SushiSwap founder remains unknown, and allegations raised so far appear to fall short of disarming. In the meantime the project appears to be gradually transitioning to a new, community-led ownership model.