Battle-tested, permissionless infrastructure, plus years of liquidity expertise.
We’re proud to announce that Sushi is the core DEX and aggregator on Katana, the DeFi-first chain for real yield and deep liquidity. With a battle-tested, permissionless infrastructure, plus years of liquidity expertise, Sushi is the perfect partner to power swaps and liquidity on Katana from day one.
Battle-Tested Liquidity Infrastructure Sushi’s contracts have seen it all, from the hype of DeFi Summer to the depths of bear markets, and they’re still going strong. The legendary Master Chef contract, one of the most forked liquidity mining contracts i.e. incentivize LPs by rewarding them with SUSHI tokens, kickstarted DeFi’s liquidity mining era and continues to pay yield to LPs today.
In addition, Sushi’s advanced aggregation stack—the most distributed and performant in the industry—powers its own DEX and multiple others protocols across nearly 40 chains and beyond. This ensures the best swap execution every time, delivering the best price for swappers. Together, they form the backbone of a liquidity engine purpose-built for Katana’s productivity-driven DeFi.
Permissionless and Modular by Design Katana’s vision demanded protocols that are truly open and baseline permissionless, a non-negotiable for the chain. Sushi’s architecture embodies this ethos: any project can integrate, list tokens, and tap into liquidity without gatekeepers. Its modular design extends beyond XYK pools to support concentrated liquidity, stable pools, and dynamic liquidity models.
As DeFi evolves, Sushi adapts, keeping Katana’s liquidity deep, flexible, and sustainable.
AggLayer Alignment: Liquidity Without Borders Katana’s AggLayer is the glue that transforms multiple sovereign chains into a unified DeFi experience—using a common bridge and ZK-powered security routes liquidity, users, and yields across chains with minimal friction.
Sushi’s high-performance aggregator stack was purpose-built for this environment. It sources liquidity across Katana’s pools and beyond, seamlessly integrating with the AggLayer’s architecture. The result is lower slippage, deeper pools, and sustainable yield — all delivered through Sushi’s infrastructure.
Fueling the Katana Flywheel: Yield That Works Unlike chains that rely on token emissions alone, Katana’s liquidity flywheel is powered by real revenue: VaultBridge yield from Ethereum, AUSD T-bill yield, sequencer fees, Chain-Owned Liquidity earnings, and KAT emissions. All of this is recycled back into Sushi’s pools and other DeFi apps on Katana, compounding liquidity and reinforcing the flywheel.
It’s like perpetual liquidity mining, but fueled by real economic activity rather than inflation. Sushi is where this yield gets activated — capturing trades, distributing rewards, and sustaining the entire ecosystem.
User-Friendly Trading Experience Sushi keeps building for traders and LPs. In the past year alone, we’ve rolled out RP6 and RP7 for aggregator upgrades, expanded SushiXSwap to 25+ networks, introduced cross-chain claim pages, single-sided LPs, MEV protection, token scanners, dual token checks, a portfolio tracker, and new order types like Limit Orders and DCA.
And that’s just the beginning — our new trading UI is on the way, just in time for Katana’s mainnet.
Conclusion: Rewriting DeFi Sushi and Katana share a vision: to move DeFi beyond fragmented liquidity and short-term incentives and build a resilient, productive ecosystem powered by real revenue. Together, we’re rewriting DeFi for good — with liquidity that works, yield that lasts, and a flywheel that keeps spinning.
