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Shiba Inu Whales Are Moving Billions and Burning Tokens Like Mad

MarketDash Editorial Team
19 hours ago
Big SHIB holders are waking up from long slumbers and moving massive amounts of tokens, while burn rates spike dramatically. The combination of whale movements and supply reduction has traders watching closely for what comes next.

Shiba Inu (SHIB) is getting interesting again. Not necessarily in a good way for the price, but definitely in the "something's happening" sense. Whales are moving around, tokens are burning, and dormant wallets are suddenly waking up like they just remembered they own hundreds of millions of dollars worth of meme coins.

Here's where things stand right now: SHIB is trading around $0.00000774, down 11% over the past week. Dogecoin (DOGE) dropped 6% to $0.1289, while Pepe (PEPE) fell 11.2% to roughly $0.00000395. The whole meme coin sector is looking rough, but the activity underneath tells a more complex story.

Santiment caught December 9 as SHIB's biggest whale transfer day since June. That same day saw a net increase of 1.06 trillion SHIB in exchange reserves, which is the kind of movement that typically comes right before the price does something dramatic. Whether that something is up or down remains the question traders are asking.

On the burn front, Shibburn data shows 16.8 million SHIB were incinerated in just two hours. That's tokens permanently removed from circulation, theoretically creating scarcity. Whether burning millions matters much when the total supply is measured in hundreds of trillions is debatable, but the community clearly thinks it matters.

Then there's the wallet archaeology. Arkham Intelligence spotted a dormant wallet that suddenly came back to life on December 15 after a full year of silence. It withdrew 53.6 billion SHIB from Coinbase, worth roughly $418,500. The wallet now holds SHIB as its primary asset with barely anything else in there. Someone's making a concentrated bet.

That's not the only ghost from Christmas past. Another long-dormant whale moved a combined 933.3 billion SHIB through OKX after nearly two years of radio silence. When wallets that have been quiet for that long suddenly start moving tokens measured in the hundreds of billions, people notice.

The pattern this month has been billions to trillions of SHIB flowing both into and out of exchanges. Big moves in both directions, which usually signals either whales repositioning or getting ready to exit. Despite all this activity, SHIB remains considerably lower than it was a year ago, still searching for whatever catalyst might reverse the trend.

So what do these whales know? Maybe nothing. Maybe they're just as confused as everyone else and moving tokens around because doing something feels better than doing nothing. Or maybe they're positioning for a move that the rest of the market hasn't figured out yet. The burn rates and whale activity suggest something's brewing, but whether it's bullish or bearish is anyone's guess.

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Shiba Inu Whales Are Moving Billions and Burning Tokens Like Mad

MarketDash Editorial Team
19 hours ago
Big SHIB holders are waking up from long slumbers and moving massive amounts of tokens, while burn rates spike dramatically. The combination of whale movements and supply reduction has traders watching closely for what comes next.

Shiba Inu (SHIB) is getting interesting again. Not necessarily in a good way for the price, but definitely in the "something's happening" sense. Whales are moving around, tokens are burning, and dormant wallets are suddenly waking up like they just remembered they own hundreds of millions of dollars worth of meme coins.

Here's where things stand right now: SHIB is trading around $0.00000774, down 11% over the past week. Dogecoin (DOGE) dropped 6% to $0.1289, while Pepe (PEPE) fell 11.2% to roughly $0.00000395. The whole meme coin sector is looking rough, but the activity underneath tells a more complex story.

Santiment caught December 9 as SHIB's biggest whale transfer day since June. That same day saw a net increase of 1.06 trillion SHIB in exchange reserves, which is the kind of movement that typically comes right before the price does something dramatic. Whether that something is up or down remains the question traders are asking.

On the burn front, Shibburn data shows 16.8 million SHIB were incinerated in just two hours. That's tokens permanently removed from circulation, theoretically creating scarcity. Whether burning millions matters much when the total supply is measured in hundreds of trillions is debatable, but the community clearly thinks it matters.

Then there's the wallet archaeology. Arkham Intelligence spotted a dormant wallet that suddenly came back to life on December 15 after a full year of silence. It withdrew 53.6 billion SHIB from Coinbase, worth roughly $418,500. The wallet now holds SHIB as its primary asset with barely anything else in there. Someone's making a concentrated bet.

That's not the only ghost from Christmas past. Another long-dormant whale moved a combined 933.3 billion SHIB through OKX after nearly two years of radio silence. When wallets that have been quiet for that long suddenly start moving tokens measured in the hundreds of billions, people notice.

The pattern this month has been billions to trillions of SHIB flowing both into and out of exchanges. Big moves in both directions, which usually signals either whales repositioning or getting ready to exit. Despite all this activity, SHIB remains considerably lower than it was a year ago, still searching for whatever catalyst might reverse the trend.

So what do these whales know? Maybe nothing. Maybe they're just as confused as everyone else and moving tokens around because doing something feels better than doing nothing. Or maybe they're positioning for a move that the rest of the market hasn't figured out yet. The burn rates and whale activity suggest something's brewing, but whether it's bullish or bearish is anyone's guess.