Sushi Staking Yield: What the 3 September Cut to xSUSHI Buybacks Means for You

Until 3 September 2026, 01:00 UTC, the Sushi DAO is voting on how much of the protocol's fee income still reaches xSUSHI holders. The proposal caps buybacks at 1 percent of protocol fees plus 1 percent of perpetuals revenue. Everything above that moves into a newly created protocol reserve and to the operations team. Anyone staking SUSHI has until that date to act on it. The process has drawn little coverage so far. This text therefore relies on the voting record itself, on independent fee data, and on an own measurement of the voting-power contract taken on 30 August 2026 at 06:37 UTC. Every figure below was recorded at that moment. What the 3 September vote decides about Sushi staking yield The proposal on the table is SUSHI Tokenomics Restructure: SUSHI Reserve, Revised xSUSHI Buybacks, and Protocol-Deployed Liquidity Deployment to Robinhood Chain, filed in the governance space sushigov.eth. It opened on 27 August 2026 at 01:00 UTC and closes on 3 September 2026 at 01:00 UTC. Three options are on the ballot: for, against, abstain. In DAO parlance, filings of this kind are proposals: drafted texts that a protocol's community votes on under fixed rules. xSUSHI is the token you rec...