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description: >-
  SushiSwap is an automated market maker (AMM) DEX, which uses a liquidity pool
  to facilitate trades. It was created as a fork of the popular Uniswap DEX and
  has its …
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# Sushiswap (SUSHI) - Sushiswap - GitBook

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#### SushiSwap Farms

Liquidity providers contribute to SushiSwap pools by connecting their Ethereum wallet to the SushiSwap farming software and locking two assets into a smart contract. For example, SushiSwap’s USDT/ETH liquidity pool consists of equal values of USDT and ETH deposits.&#x20;

Buyers can then swap tokens within the pool based on the protocol’s rules. Smart contracts running SushiSwap take the amount of tokens from the buyer and send an equivalent amount of tokens back, keeping the total pool price constant.

In exchange for maintaining liquidity in these pools, providers are then rewarded with protocol fees, along with a portion of the 100 newly minted SUSHI daily.&#x20;

Providers can reclaim their funds whenever they wish, along with their “harvest”, which is the cryptocurrency earned from farming.&#x20;

Users wishing to earn more cryptocurrency after harvesting their SUSHI can make use of the SushiBar, an application that allows them to stake their SUSHI to earn the xSUSHI token, which is composed of SUSHI tokens bought on the open market with a portion of all the fees generated on the exchange.
