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While mostly mercenary, vampire attacks are occasionally justified as being ideological in nature. During the attack, Sushi proponents argued that a disproportionate percentage of Uniswap’s UNI tokens went to early venture capital investors, while Sushi distributed tokens more broadly to users – a system that better captures the open, permissionless nature of crypto, adherents claim.