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The performances of Dogecoin and Shiba Inu this cycle have been disappointing for investors, who have waited years for the possibility of new all-time highs. Nevertheless, these two remain the largest meme coins by market cap and are often the first stop for investors looking to get into the meme market. Using predictions from the CoinCodex machine learning algorithm, this report will focus on the two leading meme coins and which one could bring the most returns in 2026. Dogecoin Could End Up A Better Investment Than Shiba Inu Since the year 2026 began, both Dogecoin and Shiba Inu have struggled as their prices failed to see any notable recovery. But even this has not deterred expectations that the meme coins will recover. According to the CoinCodex website, both Dogecoin and Shiba Inu will see gains in the double-digits this year, but one will outperform the other. Related Reading: Here’s What’s Driving The Bitcoin Price Crash Toward $60,0000 Looking at the prediction for Shiba Inu, it shows that the highest point that the meme coin might reach this year lies at $0.000009277. Despite this being a 56.90% increase from the current levels, it is still more than 80% below its all-time high price of $0.00008. With this being the highest the meme coin is expected to go, investing in Shiba Inu could only end up bringing a 50% return on investment at best when buying at these levels. While this is a reasonable return, it pales in comparison to where the algorithm predicts Dogecoin could be in the same time period. Just like Shiba Inu, the Dogecoin recovery is expected to start out slow. However, the algorithm predicts that the rally will pick up toward the end of the year. In contrast to Shiba Inu’s highest returns being only 56.90%, the algorithm predicts that the Dogecoin price would rise by 124.71% in the third quarter of the year. Related Reading: Expert Crypto Trader Predicts The Exact Year Bitcoin Will Reach $250,000 This means that investing in Dogecoin could end up doubling investments when buying at current levels. Not only this, the algorithm predicts that the rest of the year will be green for not only Dogecoin, but for Shiba Inu as well, suggesting that 2026 could be the year of recovery for the crypto assets. However, for now, both Dogecoin and Shiba Inu continue to struggle with no sign of a recovery. This is largely due to the poor performance of Bitcoin, which seems set to crash below $60,000, plunging the crypto market into another bear cycle. Featured image from Dall.E, chart from TradingView.com

An analyst has pointed out how Shiba Inu’s break below the support line of a Parallel Channel could open the door to a target of $0.00000138. Shiba Inu Has Fallen Under Parallel Channel Support In a new post on X, analyst Ali Martinez has shared a technical analysis (TA) pattern that Shiba Inu has seemingly broken out of recently. The pattern in question is a “Parallel Channel,” which is a type of consolidation channel that forms whenever an asset’s price trades between two parallel trendlines. Related Reading: Bitcoin Social Sentiment Stays Bearish Even As Price Recovers From $60,000 Drop The upper level of the pattern is likely to be a source of resistance, while the lower one that of support. If the price manages to escape either of these boundaries, then it may be likely to experience a sustained move in that direction. Parallel Channels come in a few variants. Channels that have their lines sloped upward are known as Ascending Channels, while those with trendlines pointing down are called Descending Channels. In the context of the current topic, the third and simplest type of Parallel Channels is of interest: a channel that is parallel to the time-axis. This type of Parallel Channel corresponds to a phase of true sideways movement in the asset. Now, here is the chart shared by Martinez that shows the Parallel Channel that the weekly price of Shiba Inu was stuck inside for the last few years: As displayed in the above graph, the 7-day price of Shiba Inu retested the upper level of the Parallel Channel twice in 2024, but each time, the memecoin found rejection. During 2025, the cryptocurrency mostly consolidated near the midline of the channel, but the decline during the last quarter of the year meant that the coin plummeted toward the support line. With bearish price action continuing in 2026, the asset retested the level, but it failed to find a rebound and slipped right past it. This could be a potential sign that the memecoin is now breaking under the channel. As mentioned before, Parallel Channel breakouts can lead to sustained moves in the direction of the break. Such moves may end up being of the same length as the height of the channel. Based on this, Martinez has highlighted the $0.00000138 level, noting that the breakout could have opened the door to it. From the current SHIB price, this level is situated around 77% lower. Related Reading: Ethereum Whale Selloff Continues As Supply Share Drops Under 75% It now remains to be seen how Shiba Inu will develop in the near future, considering this development in its weekly chart. SHIB Price At the time of writing, Shiba Inu is floating around $0.00000615, down 2% over the last seven days. Featured image from Dall-E, chart from TradingView.com

Shiba Inu’s price action has been harsh lately. It plunged to about $0.0000063588 over a single weekend, wiping away months of gains and leaving many holders uneasy. Related Reading: Crypto Could Bounce Soon As Fundamentals Firm Up, Tom Lee Says Market moves like that are driven by big-picture forces — macro weakness, lower appetite for altcoins, and a general pullback across crypto. Yet inside the project’s camp, voices are still billing a comeback as likely. That contrast between numbers on a chart and upbeat messages from the team is where most of the current debate sits. Lucie Voices Confidence According to posts by the project’s marketing lead, Lucie, SHIB “will come back” in time. She argues that networks built and kept alive by active communities have a stronger chance of lasting than tokens pushed mainly by paid promoters. ????SHIB ????will come back, and strong communities will carry on, pushing back to gains. Weak projects built on paid KOLs will fade, and better ones will be born. NFTs may regain momentum. New standards across AI will emerge. Pay attention, there will be opportunities to make… pic.twitter.com/TNft72aXJD — ???????????????????? (@LucieSHIB) February 2, 2026 Reports say she also hinted at fresh activity coming from developer Kaal Dhairya, and the lead developer Shytoshi Kusama has been linked to moves toward artificial intelligence and NFT-related work for the broader lineup that includes SHIB, TREAT, BONE, and LEASH. Those plans are being positioned as part of a longer-term effort to give the ecosystem more purpose beyond speculation. Community And Developer Activity There is some actual work happening, though it is mostly in early stages. Updates were teased but details remain thin. Many community members keep watching the developers’ channels for concrete timelines and product launches. At the same time, Lucie has repeatedly told people to only risk money they can spare and reminded followers that her words are not financial advice. That caution was repeated after the token slid back from $0.00001265 in March 2025 to fresh lows more recently. Signals from developers are being noticed, but they have not yet translated into sustained buying pressure. SHIBA INU COIN HOLDERS. HONEST TRUTH. 1. ALTCOINS HAVE BEEN BEARISH FOR 4 YEARS 2. $SHIB HAS UNDERPERFORMED 3. CAN SHIBA INU EVER COME BACK? 4. WHAT HAVE I LEARNED SINCE 2021 5. HOW CAN YOU ADJUST YOUR STRATEGY? Please Share This If You Get Value pic.twitter.com/YPvSL7ibRy — Zach Humphries (@ZachHumphries) February 3, 2026 Analysts Call For Realism Analysts and some community figures pushed back. Zach Humphries, among others, warned that being hopeful is fine, but it should not replace hard thinking about risk. Related Reading: Russia’s Biggest Exchange To Launch XRP Indices And Futures He noted that altcoins have underperformed for a long stretch since 2021 and that relying solely on team statements is risky. Diversification was urged. Some critics said the marketing tone is upbeat and that it can boost morale, yet market fundamentals need stronger backing to flip sentiment. Opinions in the space were split: some see potential if new features land and adoption grows, while others say the token’s long slump shows that talk alone won’t lift price. Featured image from thewave, chart from TradingView

A cryptocurrency analyst has pointed out how Shiba Inu is retesting a technical support level that could set the tone for what’s to come. Shiba Inu Is Retesting The Support Level Of A Parallel Channel In a new post on X, analyst Ali Martinez has discussed a support level for Shiba Inu. The level in question is the lower boundary of a Parallel Channel, a technical analysis (TA) pattern that forms whenever an asset trades between two parallel trendlines. Like other consolidation patterns in TA, the upper line of a Parallel Channel is considered to be a source of resistance, while the lower one is that of support. Either of these levels not holding up can signal a continuation of the trend in that direction. Related Reading: Bitcoin Net Taker Volume Sees Third-Largest Bearish Spike In 2 Years Parallel Channels can be of a few different types depending upon how the channel is oriented with respect to the graph axes. When the trendlines are sloped upward, the resulting pattern is called an Ascending Channel. Similarly, their pointing down forms a Descending Channel. In the context of the current topic, the third and most basic type is the one of interest: a channel that’s parallel to the time-axis. This pattern corresponds to a phase of complete sideways action in the asset. Now, here is the chart shared by Martinez that shows the Parallel Channel that the weekly price of Shiba Inu has been trading inside for the last few years: As is visible in the above graph, the 7-day Shiba Inu price has fallen to the support line of the Parallel Channel after the latest bearish price action. This level, located at $0.0000066721, was last tested by the memecoin in 2023. Back then, the line held and helped the cryptocurrency turn itself around. “For Shiba Inu $SHIB, everything depends on its ability to hold above the $0.0000066721 support level,” explained the analyst. It now remains to be seen how the asset’s price will develop in the coming days, given this potentially important retest. Related Reading: XRP Market Structure “Very Similar” To April 2022, Glassnode Says In the scenario that a breakdown happens, the levels highlighted by Martinez in the chart could become the next relevant ones: $0.0000029954 and $0.0000013522. The former is located below the Parallel Channel at a distance equal to half its width, while the latter is at the full width mark. SHIB Price Shiba Inu has slid down alongside the rest of the cryptocurrency market over the past week, but its losses have been more contained than some other major names. Even so, a weekly return of -9.9% shows that the bearish momentum hasn’t spared the memecoin. Featured image from Dall-E, chart from TradingView.com

Shiba Inu has spent recent weeks locked in a downward price action with bullish momentum fading and investor interest thinning without a clear bullish direction. However, holders may finally have something concrete to anticipate. Refreshing activity from Shytoshi Kusama, the Shiba Inu ecosystem’s lead developer, has diverted attention to a key moment expected on Sunday. Lead Dev Breaks Silence, Teases Sunday That dynamic began to change when Shytoshi Kusama, the pseudonymous lead developer and co-founder of the Shiba Inu ecosystem, resurfaced on X after a prolonged absence since early December. However, Kusama broke his silence this week with a thread on X explaining the reasons behind his inactivity and has since returned to regular posting and reposting activity. Related Reading: Bitcoin’s Slide To $82K Sets Off A $1.7 Billion Chain Reaction One post stood out more than the rest, in which Kusama hinted at a revelation scheduled for Sunday. In that message, he spoke about arriving at a discovery by pure chance and referenced what he described as an ancient marker older than time itself. Although the message was a bit cryptic, it immediately generated attention across the SHIB community, which has been hungry for direction and clarity amid recent challenges in Shiba Inu’s price action. The significance of Sunday became clearer following an interesting exchange between Kusama and a Shiba Inu community member who openly expressed concerns about transparency, reassurance, and leadership presence after recent ecosystem issues.  The community member, known as RuggRat on X, noted how there has been no official statement or simple explanation of what happened from Kusama regarding the Shibarium exploit. This is in reference to the September 2025 Shibarim Bridge exploit, which saw attackers making off with $4.1 million worth of crypto assets. In response, Kusama acknowledged the concern, stating that silence can sometimes be strategic and framing Sunday as a moment for addressing issues step by step. “This is what Sunday is for. One at a time,” Kusama said. Fair. But sometimes silence is a weapon for quiet wars. This is what Sunday is for. One bandage. Take off. Fix. Put on. One at a time. — Shytoshi Kusama™ (@ShytoshiKusama) January 29, 2026 Shiba Inu’s Challenging Phase Has Tested Holder Confidence Shiba Inu’s price action has struggled to gain any meaningful upside traction since the beginning of 2026, an extension of its late 2025 run. At the time of writing, SHIB is trading around $0.0000071, keeping it pinned down by 1.8% and 10.5% in the past 24 hours and seven days, respectively. Price structure during this period has been marked by a series of lower lows, with persistent selling pressure leaving little room for a meaningful higher high to form. Related Reading: Ethereum Boost: Vitalik Buterin Sets Aside $45M In ETH For Privacy And Open Tech This prolonged stagnation has been difficult for many Shiba Inu holders, and many of them are increasingly becoming sellers. Furthermore, expectations around ecosystem expansion and utility has yet to reflect positively in the price. That environment is exactly why leadership communication has mattered more than usual. Featured image from Unsplash, chart from TradingView

The Shiba Inu price crashed to as low as $0.000007683 yesterday, sparking bearish sentiment towards the meme coin. This crash came on the back of a transfer of billions of SHIB tokens, which raised concerns of a potential sell-off by the whale in question.  Why The Shiba Inu Price Crashed The Shiba Inu price crashed amid significant selling pressure, with a SHIB whale sending billions of tokens to Robinhood, likely to offload these tokens. Arkham data shows that the whale (0x2d0…9f7bB) first sent 210.365 billion SHIB tokens, worth $1.63 million, to the crypto exchange. These tokens represented about 97% of the whale’s SHIB holdings. Related Reading: Shiba Inu Sell-Offs Incoming: 82 Trillion Deposits Threaten To Crash SHIB Price Further data from Arkham shows that the SHIB whale sent an additional 1.52 billion tokens to Robinhood and 7 billion tokens to liquidity provider B2C2 Group, which could be an OTC sale. The Shiba Inu price has notably crashed by over 7% in the last week, and it suffered its worst drop during this period yesterday amid the whale’s transfers. The whale now holds only 5.86 billion SHIB, worth $46,790. The Shiba Inu price also crashed due to the sell-off in the broader crypto market, led by Bitcoin. BC dropped to as low as $87,000 yesterday amid concerns over trade tensions between the U.S. and Europe stemming from the Greenland-linked Trump tariffs. However, the market recovered towards the end of the day as Trump announced that he had canceled the proposed tariffs, having reached a Greenland deal with NATO.   Despite the recent Shiba Inu price crash, the meme coin is still up over 15% year-to-date (YTD) and ranks among the best-performing crypto assets this year. However, SHIb is still far off from its current all-time high (ATH) of $0.00008845.  Exchange Netflows For SHIB Remains Mixed SHIB’s exchange netflows have remained mixed, indicating there is no clear accumulation pattern for the meme coin at the moment. CryptoQuant data shows that today’s net flows are negative, totaling just over 7 billion Shiba Inu tokens, suggesting that more coins are flowing into exchanges than out.  However, the total exchanges’ netflows yesterday were positive, at 1.6 billion tokens, indicating more tokens leaving exchanges, which is bullish for the Shiba Inu price as it hints at accumulation from whales. On January 16, SHIB’s netflows were also positive, totaling around 115 billion tokens. However, the positive netflows on that day were overshadowed by the negative flows of 214 billion SHIB recorded on January 20.    Related Reading: Here’s Why The Shiba Inu Price Jumped Over 13% Crypto traders still remain bullish on the Shiba Inu price as CoinGlass data shows the long/short ratio is currently above 1. Derivatives trading volume has also jumped by over 20% while the open interest is up almost 3%.  At the time of writing, the Shiba Inu price is trading at around $0.000007978, up in the last 24 hours, according to data from CoinMarketCap. Featured image from Adobe Stock, chart from Tradingview.com

Shiba Inu’s on-chain data shows an interesting dynamic among SHIB holders and their relationship with crypto exchanges. Recent metrics from CryptoQuant show sustained withdrawals from exchanges alongside a noticeable increase in burn activity in the past few days, all of which are signs of tighter supply conditions.  This dwindling exchange supply reflects hundreds of billions of SHIB tokens removed from exchanges in recent days in a trend that dates back up to a year. Massive Decline In SHIB Held On Exchanges According to data from on-chain analytics platform CryptoQuant, SHIB exchange reserves have declined noticeably as whale wallets withdraw large amounts of tokens from trading platforms. On January 16, the total Shiba Inu exchange reserves stood at approximately 82.6 trillion SHIB. As of January 20, that figure has fallen to about 82.23 trillion SHIB. This change means that roughly 370 billion SHIB has been removed from exchanges in just a few days. Such movements are typically attributed to whale activity, as transfers of this size are rarely caused by retail traders. When whales move SHIB off exchanges, the tokens are often sent to cold storage or long-term holding wallets, reducing the amount of supply immediately available for selling. SHIB Exchange Reserve. Source: CryptoQuant This short-term outflow also fits into a much larger trend of outflows from crypto exchanges since January 2025. CryptoQuant data shows that SHIB exchange reserves were close to 140 trillion tokens in early January 2025. Since then, however, SHIB whales have steadily reduced exchange balances, and this has pushed the reserves down to current levels around 82.2 trillion SHIB. The consistency of this decline suggests deliberate accumulation or long-term positioning by large holders. SHIB Exchange Reserve. Source: CryptoQuant Whale Activity Correlates With Increased SHIB Burn Rates Burn activity across the Shiba Inu network has intensified alongside whales withdrawing SHIB from exchanges. According to recent on-chain data, the SHIB burn rate has witnessed a jump of more than 1,200% in the past 24-hour period, with almost 29 million SHIB permanently removed from circulation.  Although burns are not exclusively initiated by whales, large holders often play a role by sending large tokens to burn addresses or interacting with ecosystem mechanisms like Shibarium that lead to burns. Data from the burn tracker website Shibburn shows that the bulk of these burns were made with one single transfer of 28 million SHIB tokens sent to burn address CA. SHIB Burn Rate. Source: Shibburn.com According to CryptoQuant data, over 51.2 billion SHIB tokens have been withdrawn from crypto exchanges in the past 24 hours alone. So far, Shiba Inu’s price action has not made a decisive move in response to these changes. At the time of writing, Shiba Inu is trading at $0.00000794, up by 1% in the past 24 hours but down by 7.6% in a seven-day timeframe. SHIB Exchange Netflow. Source: CryptoQuant Featured image created with Dall.E, chart from Tradingview.com

Crypto analyst DOGECAPITAL has drawn attention to a Fibonacci level that indicates that the Dogecoin price top is above $10. The analyst also highlighted the meme coin’s performance during past bull cycles to explain why it could rally to double digits.  Dogecoin Price Eyes Rally Above $10 Based on These Fibonacci Extensions In an X post, DOGECAPITAL predicted that the Dogecoin price could rally above $10, which would mark the top for the foremost meme coin. This came as he noted that the monthly DOGE chart highlights where major cycle peaks have historically formed using Fibonacci extensions and that this pattern is “remarkably consistent.” Related Reading: Dogecoin Rapid Accumulation Suggests Sharp Upward Sweep Is Coming The crypto analyst mentioned that in the first cycle, the Dogecoin price topped exactly at the 4.236 Fibonacci level. In the second cycle, DOGE is said to have peaked again at the 4.236 Fibonacci level. DOGECAPITAL remarked that this pattern isn’t random but rather a structural behavior.  He then stated that if this pattern continues into the next cycle, the data strongly suggests that the Dogecoin price’s upcoming cycle top could again align with the 4.236 Fibonacci level, which currently sits at $33.25. DOGECAPITAL added history doesn’t repeat perfectly, but it often rhymes. In this case, DOGE has followed its long-term Fibonacci structure with “near-perfect accuracy,” which is why he is confident that the meme coin could reach this price target.  Meanwhile, it is worth mentioning that DOGECAPITAL’s accompanying chart showed that the Dogecoin price could reach this $33.25 target between now and 2028. Interestingly, the chart showed that DOGE could rally to as high as $100 if it reaches the upper boundary of the ascending channel. A rally to these targets would mark new all-time highs (ATHs) for the meme coin, whose current ATH is $0.74.  Market Cap Doesn’t Matter For DOGE A potential Dogecoin price rally to $33.25 would give the meme coin a market cap of around $5.6 trillion. However, DOGECAPITAL stated that market cap has never dictated how DOGE moves. He said that if it did, half the insane runs in crypto wouldn’t exist. The analyst noted that Shiba Inu exploded to a massive valuation in 2021 with no “realistic” justification, yet the market still sent it to such highs.  Related Reading: Analyst Says the Worst Is Over For Dogecoin, Predicts Rally To $0.8 DOGECAPITAL stated that his focus is on the long-term Fibonacci structure and that the Dogecoin price has topped at the 4.236 Fib level in two separate cycles. He added that this is the entire point of the chart and that it is not tied to any quarter, fundamentals, or market cap logic. The analyst also claimed that short-term volatility doesn’t erase a decade-long pattern and that if the Fib structure breaks, he will adjust accordingly.  At the time of writing, the Dogecoin price is trading at around $0.14, up in the last 24 hours, according to data from CoinMarketCap. Featured image from iStock, chart from Tradingview.com

On-chain data show a significant amount of Shiba Inu still held on exchanges, putting the SHIB price at risk of a decline due to sell-offs. This comes amid a positive increase in net flows, indicating that more coins are flowing into exchanges, likely to offload them.  SHIB Price At Risk With 82 Trillion Shiba Inu On Exchanges CryptoQuant data shows that the Shiba Inu exchange reserve is at 82 trillion coins. This indicates higher selling pressure, especially as the value has risen from around 81 trillion at the start of the year. Amid this development, the SHIB price has trimmed some of its year-to-date gains, with the meme coin dropping from a high above $0.000009 just as the exchange reserve rose.  Related Reading: Here’s Why The Shiba Inu Price Jumped Over 13% Another bearish indicator for Shiba Inu at the moment is the exchange netflow. Further data from CryptoQuant show that the exchange netflow has turned positive, indicating that more coins are being deposited into exchanges than removed. As such, the meme coin is likely currently facing more selling pressure than buying pressure, putting the SHIB price at risk of a decline.  Notably, the Shiba Inu exchange netflow turned positive just as the SHIB price reached its yearly high above $$0.000009. The recent bearish sentiment in the broader crypto market has likely contributed to these sell-offs for SHIB, with the Bitcoin price dropping back to $90,000 after rising above $94,000 at the start of the year.  Activity in the Shiba Inu derivatives market also paints a bearish picture for the SHIB price. CoinGlass data shows that trading volume has dropped by just over 5%, to $203 million. SHIB’s open interest is also down over 7%, dropping to $108 million. However, a positive is that most traders are still bullish on the meme coin, with the long/short ratio above 1.  An Increase In SHIB Whale Transactions A positive for the SHIB price is that whales still appear to be bullish on the meme coin. On-chain analytics platform Santiment recently pointed out a 111% spike in Shiba Inu’s whale transactions. Thanks to this development, SHIB ranks among the tokens with a market cap of at least $500 that have seen an increase in whale transactions above $100,000.  Related Reading: Shiba Inu End Of Year Predictions Remain Bearish, High Volatility Expected Meanwhile, CryptoQuant data show that the number of daily Shiba Inu active addresses has climbed since the start of the year and has remained above the 3,000 threshold. This is a positive as it indicates that attention is now returning to the SHIB ecosystem, which could positively impact the SHIB price once the crypto market rebounds again.  At the time of writing, the Shiba Inu price is trading at around $0.000008752, down in the last 24 hours, according to data from CoinMarketCap. Featured image from Sketchfab, chart from Tradingview.com

The Shiba Inu price has recorded an unexpected gain of more than 13% recently, decisively breaking away from the extended bear trend that had suppressed its momentum. Notably, 2026 is already shaping up to be a transformative year for the crypto market, with meme coins like Shiba Inu benefiting from the broader bullish shift and growing demand. With the Shiba Inu price now testing higher valuation zones, on-chain data has revealed the underlying forces behind its recent price surge    Key Drivers Behind The Shiba Inu Price Rally Shiba Inu surged more than 13% on Sunday, January 4, as the broader 2026 meme coin frenzy began unexpectedly and continued to rotate capital among speculative assets. According to data from Santiment, a crypto analytics platform, SHIB’s sudden upside move was largely driven by aggressive accumulation from top whales rather than a surge in retail demand.  Related Reading: Here Are The Top Meme Coins Leading The Crypto Recovery Ahead Of Dogecoin And Shiba Inu In a post on X, Santiment analysts noted that large holders were tightening their grip on Shiba Inu’s supply amid muted retail distribution. This behaviour points to growing confidence among dominant whale wallets and suggests that the recent price rally was not fueled by short-term, hype-driven buying.  Price data also shows the Shiba Inu climb began at the start of January this year, after spending several weeks consolidating near recent lows. Notably, the recent bounce followed a prolonged downtrend that spanned late October through December 2025, making the 13% price jump stand out as a clear shift in momentum.  Overlaying the price action is a rising line on Santiment’s chart that tracks the percentage of SHIB supply held by the top 10 whale wallets. While prices fluctuated throughout the second half of 2025, this metric steadily increased, signaling consistent accumulation even as broader market conditions remained weak.  At the time of the analysis, the 10 largest Shiba Inu wallets collectively controlled about 62.65% of the total supply. Such a high level of concentration is unusual and gives large token holders significant influence over short-term price movements. The single largest wallet alone held roughly 41% of the total SHIB supply, valued at approximately $3.3 billion.  Related Reading: Shiba Inu Lead Dev Reacts To Wild Development On Coinbase Involving $35 Million In SHIB Meanwhile, other top whale wallets each controlled between 2.8% and 5.7%, with several individual addresses worth hundreds of millions of dollars. Notably, the timing of Shiba Inu’s 13% price jump aligns with a visible uptick in whale concentration at the far right of the chart. As more supply became locked up, available liquidity thinned, allowing relatively modest buying pressure to push prices significantly higher.  Shiba Inu’s Total Gains In 2026 So Far According to Santiment, Shiba Inu’s performance in 2026 now stands at a gain of more than 32% Year-to-Date (YTD). If wallet concentration remains elevated and whales continue to grow wealthier, volatility is likely to persist as prices respond quickly to shifts in large-holder behavior. At the time of writing, Shiba Inu is trading at $0.00000916, reflecting a roughly 5% increase in just one day. Featured image from Adobe Stock, chart from Tradingview.com

Shiba Inu (SHIB) has ridden a fresh wave of speculative buying this week, with the token jumping nearly 16% while the broader meme coin sector surged. Related Reading: $18 Million Ethereum Loss Sends Whale Running To Gold According to Santiment, total meme coin valuation rose by about 23% over the period as traders piled back into higher-risk tokens. Trading volumes jumped from $2.16 billion to roughly $8.6 billion, a whopping increase that shows how fast money rotated into this corner of the market. Supply Concentration Raises Eyebrows Reports have disclosed that supply remains highly concentrated among a handful of wallets. The top 10 holders control over 60% of SHIB’s maximum supply, which equals around 1 quadrillion tokens. ???????? Meme coins, the most “speculative” of assets, have proceeded with their post-holiday run. The entire meme market cap is now above $45.3B, growing by +20.8% in just the past week. ???? Notable 7-day gainers include: ???? $PEPE +54% ???? $USELESS +54% ???? $MOG +38% ???? $DOG +36% ????… pic.twitter.com/htdfiXLaLf — Santiment (@santimentfeed) January 4, 2026 Those wallets together hold about 630 trillion SHIB. Based on Santiment’s figures, the official burn wallet alone holds roughly 40% of the total supply, a stake valued at over $3 billion. This kind of concentration can magnify price swings if large holders move coins onto exchanges or sell. Technical Setup Points To A Test Analyst Charting Guy flagged the token’s weekly chart as “looking good” in a January 4 tweet, noting a strong weekly candle that closed up 22%. Based on reports, SHIB started 2026 at $0.000006904 and has since pushed higher. $SHIB weekly looks good pic.twitter.com/YigTTQ3kEW — Charting Guy (@ChartingGuy) January 4, 2026 The meme coin briefly traded above $0.0000093 before a pullback and is currently around $0.000008766. Year-to-date gains sit near 64% and the token was up 2.14% over the past 24 hours and 15.7% over the last week. Charting Guy’s chart shows SHIB approaching the tip of a long-running descending trendline that traces back to a high of $0.0000334 in December 2024. A break above that line would raise the chance of a larger move higher. Meme Coins See Wide Gains Other tokens have also posted big moves. Dogecoin recorded about a 20% rise while Pepe surged roughly 65% over the same span. The group’s sharp gains came as speculative interest accelerated and traders chased short-term returns. Related Reading: A Maduro Bet, A Market Alarm: US Lawmaker Targets Trading Abuses Market Volume And Trader Behavior Santiment’s data highlights that trading activity spiked dramatically, signaling a swift return of hot money to meme coins. The jump from $2.17 billion to $8.7 billion in daily traded value shows more participants are active and willing to take bigger risks. Based on the mix of heavy supply concentration and a crowded technical setup, Shiba Inu’s path could widen in either direction. A decisive breakout above the descending trendline might extend last week’s rally, while heavy selling from large wallets could trigger sharp pullbacks. Featured image from Gemini, chart from TradingView

Crypto analyst Quantum Ascend has published a weekly-chart “roadmap” for Shiba Inu (SHIB) in a new video, laying out three upside targets for a potential altcoin cycle, while warning that SHIB’s deep multi-year drawdown could cap the move if macro conditions deteriorate. The Base Case For Shiba Inu Price In his X post, Quantum Ascend listed “Altseason Targets” as a conservative level (“$0.47 e-8,” as written), a “Primary” target of $0.00014, and a “Blow-Off” target of $0.00035. In the video, the analyst anchored the roadmap to Elliott Wave-style structure and Fibonacci extensions, and emphasized that the bullish path is conditional, not guaranteed. Starting from SHIB’s 2021 peak and the subsequent collapse, the analyst said the drawdown returned price to a historically meaningful zone: “Count out the five wave moves there pretty cleanly, but since then, nothing but a drawdown… Came back down right into this wave four low.” Related Reading: Shiba Inu Scores US Regulated Derivatives Entry Via Coinbase From that setup, Quantum Ascend argued the decline can be read as a “crashing pattern” that often resolves with a reversal back toward prior highs. “So you have your five waves down, and typically what’ll happen, price will roll back up to the fourth wave, and then what it does is it’s going to come take out this fifth wave. This is six, come take out that fifth wave, even if it’s just a little for a wave seven, then it’s done and it turns back the other direction, right? So when we’re looking at it from this perspective, we can see pretty textbook for the level it went to,” the analyst said. “So now that you see the case for a new high… we got to start taking these fibs into play here and figure out, all right, where’s some logical price levels for this thing to end up.” Quantum Ascend then flagged the biggest constraint: SHIB’s magnitude of drawdown relative to prior-cycle behavior. “The one thing that’s stopping me from saying, yep, 100%, we’re going to see new highs, is going back to 2021, price is down 93% at the worst and right now down 92%,” the analyst said. “Back in 2021, coins that set their highs in 2017 and had a 90% plus drawdown did not set new highs in the 2021 cycle… So this is a four-year range down 90 plus percent. It fits the parameter of some of those other coins that never ended up going off into a new all-time high.” Related Reading: Shiba Inu Remains A Familiar Crypto Name As Losses Pile Up If that historical analog holds, the analyst said SHIB could be tracing a larger corrective structure rather than a fresh impulse. “If that’s the case, then this count would be five waves up and then we have an A, B into the retracements, and then C would start taking us much lower. That coincides with a recession-depression type feel,” the analyst said, adding: “And I do believe that that is the base case moving forward here… It’s just really important to understand the broader macro climate. Like this Shiba isn’t going unless everything else is lined up.” The Bullish Case For SHIB Price Even so, Quantum Ascend laid out upside zones using confluence between broader and nearer-term Fibonacci ranges. The analyst’s stated primary target for an “altseason environment” is the 1.618 Fibonacci extension at roughly $0.00014 which translates to a 1,800% rally from the current price. He added: “My blow-off is going to be a full 4.236 extension here of this range.” The blow-off scenario hits $0.00035, but was presented by him as technically possible but unlikely. Market-cap math was used as a reality check. “The thing I’ll say about SHIB is it’s at a $4.2 billion market cap right now. That’s pretty big, especially for what it is,” the analyst said, estimating that a move to the conservative area would imply roughly a $25 billion valuation and that the most extreme scenario would push into triple-digit billions. “That is massive getting up there… That’s like a 50x from where we’re at. And at that point, you’re talking 200 billion for a coin that doesn’t really do anything… In no way, shape, or form is this my base case.” $SHIB | @Shibtoken ????️ Macro Structure Points to New Highs ↗️ Altseason Targets???? ➤➤ Conservative: $0.47 e-8 ➤➤ Primary: $0.00014 ✅ ➤➤ Blow-Off: $0.00035 Here’s the Roadmap???? pic.twitter.com/nWxQsVtLvv — Quantum Ascend (@quantum_ascend) December 18, 2025 Despite publishing upside targets, Quantum Ascend stressed exit discipline over maximal upside capture, noting he does not hold SHIB. “I don’t own this coin, but if I did, I would be layered out all in this area [from the 0.5 Fibonacci level at $0.00004699] … I’d be done by the time it got up to that 1.618 Fibonacci at $0.00014,” the analyst said, arguing that “dollar cost averaging both in and out is a great strategy” in a meme-coin trade that ultimately depends on broader liquidity and risk appetite. At press time, SHIB traded at $0.00000738. Featured image created with DALL.E, chart from TradingView.com

According to reports, Coinbase has launched regulated futures linked to Shiba Inu, opening the token to trading on a US derivatives venue. Related Reading: Analyst: Bitcoin’s Cycle Is Intact, Yet No Longer Purely Market-Driven The new products include perpetual-style contracts and monthly futures tied to what Coinbase calls the 1k SHIB index (a 1,000 token index), with trading scheduled to run 24/7. The rollout began on December 5, 2025, as part of a broader push by the exchange to add altcoin derivative listings under US rules. Regulated Futures Hit The Market Reports have disclosed that the perpetual contracts operate like offshore swaps in form but are offered through Coinbase’s regulated platform and are designed to include a funding-rate mechanism to keep prices close to spot. Now live: Trade US Perpetual-Style Futures for all altcoins on Coinbase Derivatives, available 24/7. → Shiba Inu $SHIB → Avalanche $AVAX → Bitcoin Cash $BCH → Cardano $ADA → Chainlink $LINK → Dogecoin $DOGE → Hedera $HBAR → Litecoin $LTC → Polkadot $DOT → SUI $SUI →… pic.twitter.com/yjS2XsQ2jN — Coinbase Markets ????️ (@CoinbaseMarkets) December 15, 2025 Monthly contracts were made available as an initial phase. Clearing and settlement are handled inside systems compatible with US oversight, and the products are described as compliant with Commodity Futures Trading Commission frameworks. What Traders And Institutions Might Do Market participants say having regulated futures can change who trades a token. Institutional desks and some large funds often need regulated venues and clearer custody paths before they increase exposure. Added liquidity and round-the-clock pricing may attract more active traders, and that could raise volume. At the same time, access to futures also makes it easier to bet against the token, which can push volatility up. Reports note that immediate moves in spot markets have been mixed, showing that access to derivatives does not automatically lift the token’s price. Because SHIB has regulated futures on Coinbase (“1k Shib Index”), it qualifies for spot ETF consideration under the same SEC pathway Bitcoin and Ethereum followed. The big picture for SHIB •SHIB now joins the “ETF-watchlist club” with other futures-backed cryptos. •If/when… pic.twitter.com/cZPxUWWhBn — ???????????????????? (@LucieSHIB) September 18, 2025 Market Context And Exchange Strategy Coinbase’s decision follows steps the exchange has taken to grow its derivatives arm. Company filings and public letters in 2025 framed derivatives growth as a strategic priority, and the firm has pursued deals and product launches to expand those capabilities. Related Reading: Ethereum Meets Wall Street: JPMorgan Rolls Out Tokenized Fund One notable deal disclosed earlier involved an agreement valued at close to $3 billion to strengthen derivatives know-how and infrastructure. This background helps explain why Coinbase is offering altcoin futures that trade continuously, under a regulated roof. Featured image from Gemini, chart from TradingView

Shiba Inu has kept a spot in crypto talk even as its price has slid sharply. According to reports, the network had a market cap of $5 billion as of Dec. 6, and it still draws attention because people know the name. That visibility, however, does not settle the debate over whether the token belongs in a long-term portfolio. Related Reading: Bitcoin Headed For $200 Trillion? CEO Makes Bold Prediction Shiba Inu’s Price And Market Size Based on reports, Shiba Inu has seen massive moves over several years. Roughly five years ago it traded near $0.0000000001684; at the time of writing, it is quoted at about $0.000008439. SHIB’s all-time high stands at $0.00008845, which means the token trades roughly 85% below that peak. Reports have disclosed that SHIB has tanked about 55% so far this year, and some data points show almost a 60% decline over a recent 12-month span. Those drops have pushed many investors to ask whether the story that once lifted SHIB has faded. On-Chain Signals And Holder Counts There are mixed signals on the chain. Data from CryptoQuant is reported to show memecoin dominance falling to its lowest level since early 2024, a sign that speculative interest across similar tokens has ebbed. At the same time, the number of wallets holding SHIB moved from about 1.45 million at the start of the year to around 1.52 million more recently. That jump in holders was noted alongside the price slide. It suggests distribution rather than complete abandonment; small increases in holders do not always mean increased trading activity, but they can show steady retail interest. Memecoin markets are dead. pic.twitter.com/6kymLWH4JX — Ki Young Ju (@ki_young_ju) December 11, 2025 Pundit Views And The Utility Question Meanwhile, crypto pundit Neil Patel has listed reasons he would not treat Shiba Inu as a proper investment. He argues the memecoin doesn’t solve a clear, large-scale problem and points out that developer activity for SHIB is limited compared with many other networks. The claim is that much of SHIB’s value has been driven by hype cycles and not by broad real-world use. Those views were presented in firm terms, and they have been repeated across a range of commentaries that warn about hype-driven tokens. Related Reading: Analyst: Bitcoin’s Cycle Is Intact, Yet No Longer Purely Market-Driven Investor Takeaways And Risks Investors who want exposure to crypto are often told to look at major networks such as Bitcoin for scarcity-driven arguments; that point was brought up in several reports. At the same time, SHIB’s supporting projects — a layer-two chain, a decentralized exchange, a metaverse concept — are real but appear to have small adoption so far. Featured image from Unsplash, chart from TradingView

The Shiba Inu community was jolted by an unexpected surge of whale activity this week, involving a staggering $35 million worth of SHIB. The large-scale whale movement not only caught the community’s attention but also prompted a rare public reaction from Shiba Inu’s lead developer, Shytoshi Kusama. After months of silence, Shytoshi has seemingly resurfaced to acknowledge the massive transfer.  Shiba Inu Lead Dev Breaks Silence After Massive Whale Move After over three months of silence, Kusama reappeared on X as the Shiba Inu community reacted to a substantial whale movement. His return followed a repost by World Blockchain Capital about the unusually large transfer of 4,136,208,073,220 SHIB from the crypto exchange Coinbase to a private key wallet.  Related Reading: 121 Billion Shiba Inu Coins From Exchanges, Where Are They Headed With Prices Down? World Blockchain Capital tagged several members of the Shiba Inu community in the transaction, urging them to take note and highlighting how rare such a move has been recently. The transaction was first identified by market analyst Del Crxpto, who reported that the more than 4 trillion SHIB transfer was worth about $35 million.  Typically, when tokens are removed from exchanges and moved to a private wallet address, it often signals strategic accumulation or long-term holding by major investors rather than immediate trading activity. In this case, the size of the transaction ignited bullish sentiment from market watchers, especially in a period where the price is experiencing significant volatility and choppy action. Excluding the shock of the transfer, what really caught the interest of the community was Kusama’s unexpected reappearance. The lead developer had previously explained in an earlier post that his reduced visibility was due to a shift in focus toward other new projects.  At the time, he disclosed a new interest in Artificial Intelligence (AI) initiatives aimed at advancing the ecosystem. Kusama emphasized that, despite exploring new directions, he continues to work with SHIB developers, including Kaal Dhairya and others, to shape Shiba Inu’s next phase.  Analyst Eyes $0.0002 SHIB As Whales Return A new report by market analyst ‘SHIB Crack’ on X reveals that the price of Shiba Inu is showing signs of a massive breakout amid rising market activity. Currently, the SHIB price is in a downtrend, dropping by more than 6% this week and over 16% in the past month.  Related Reading: Will The Shiba Inu Price Hit A New All-Time High In 2025? Machine Learning Algorithm Answers Despite this severe downturn, SHIB Crack believes that the cryptocurrency is gearing up for a massive rise $0.00002. At the time of writing, the meme coin is trading at $0.0000082, meaning a surge to the analyst’s projected target would require a gain of over 142% SHIB Crack has attributed his bullish forecast to the recent sharp surge in whale activity. According to the post on X, SHIB whales have reemerged and are silently accumulating tokens, signaling confidence in the token’s potential to rally. Featured image from Adobe Stock, chart from Tradingview.com

A noted Bitcoin adviser has warned that Shiba Inu faces an uphill climb unless it retakes a prior support band, a call that has stirred debate across crypto social channels. Related Reading: Institutions Scoop Up 9,000 Ether, Fueling Bullish Signals According to posts by BingX Bitcoin adviser Nebraskan Gooner, the token must return above a horizontal region he marked between $0.000014 and $0.00001 to avoid a “dead” outlook. Key Support Level Under Scrutiny Gooner’s chart points to a multi-year zone that once acted as firm support. Reports show SHIB touched that band and later surged to about $0.000045 in early March 2024. The importance of the area is highlighted by the token’s price action: it has spent much of Q4 2025 below that range, and at the time of reporting SHIB was trading around $0.000008618. That places the coin roughly 33–38% below the $0.000013–$0.000014 region that many traders watch as critical. $SHIB Dead unless it reclaims red. pic.twitter.com/LOllFuyPYv — Nebraskangooner (@Nebraskangooner) December 9, 2025 Technical Traders See Trouble Ahead Breaking a long-held support level often flips buying interest into resistance, and that scenario is what traders fear here. Based on reports from market commentators, a failure to climb back into the red band would make upward moves harder and likely sap momentum. Gooner used blunt language, saying “Dead unless it reclaims red” unless the token reclaims the zone. The phrase was repeated widely, feeding both bearish calls and pushback from supporters. Community Response And Roadmap Calls Across social threads, many users argued that SHIB is not unique; several altcoins appear stalled in the current phase. A number of holders said SHIB’s recovery chances may hinge on a wider altcoin rebound, sometimes called altcoin season. According to Zach Humphries, members of the Shiba Inu project must refocus every ecosystem initiative around SHIB, reposition the token to attract renewed retail interest, and publish a clear, actionable roadmap to restore earlier momentum. Bitcoin’s Role In A Possible Comeback Some analysts pointed to Bitcoin as the likely spark for any broad recovery, expecting the alpha coin to rebound toward $125,000 from around $90,000, while others have projected a new peak near $150,000 in 2026. If Bitcoin climbs above $100,000, traders say speculative flows could return and lift meme tokens including SHIB. Related Reading: NFT Slump Worsens With Monthly Sales Hitting Rock Bottom Price Snapshot And What Comes Next Short-term price moves show SHIB up 0.95% in the past 24 hours but down 4.8% over the last week. Many market observers emphasize that a return into the highlighted $0.000014–$0.00001 area would improve technical odds for a rally. At the same time, others warn that even with historical liquidity and a large community, reclaiming a broken support is often difficult and can take time. The coming weeks will likely test whether market-wide momentum or renewed project direction can change SHIB’s path. Featured image from Unsplash, chart from TradingView

Shiba Inu has recorded a notable surge in spot trading activity on several exchanges over the last seven days. This provides a bullish outlook for the second-largest meme coin by market cap, which has been one of the underperformers in this market cycle.  Shiba Inu Sees Surge In Spot Trading Activity CoinGlass data show a 154% surge in Shiba Inu USD spot trading volume on Kraken over the last seven days. There has also been a significant surge on other major exchanges, such as Binance, Bybit, OKX, and Gemini, during the same period. This indicates that spot buyers may be stepping in to defend the SHIB price at a critical support amid the broader crypto market decline.  Related Reading: Will A Shiba Inu ETF Follow After Dogecoin? The Lone SHIB Filing Standing Against The Crowd Notably, Shiba Inu is one of the altcoins that are in the green over the last week, suggesting that the bulls may be in control at the moment. CoinMarketCap data shows that the second-largest meme coin by market cap is up almost 7% during this period despite Bitcoin’s choppy price action.  Meanwhile, further data from CoinGlass also shows that most leverage traders are currently betting on an increase in the Shiba Inu price, with the long/short ratio currently above 1. However, it is worth noting that derivatives volume is down by over 10% and open interest is down by almost 4%, which presents a bearish outlook for the meme coin.  Another positive for Shiba Inu, besides the surge in spot trading volume, is that the Fed is likely to cut interest rates again at this week’s FOMC meeting. This could inject more liquidity into the crypto market, with altcoins like SHIB benefiting from it. Meanwhile, Bitcoin is currently looking to hold above the psychological $90,000 level, which could pave the way for higher prices for SHIB given their positive correlation.   Community Gives Update On SHIB’s Progress In an X post, Shiba Inu community member Shibizens gave an update on SHIB’s progress over the last few days. The community member noted that over 45 billion SHIB have been moved off exchanges, indicating that holders are accumulating. Shibizens also alluded to a $35 million whale transfer into a private wallet, suggesting that SHIB whales are also bullish.  Related Reading: Will The Shiba Inu Price Hit A New All-Time High In 2025? Machine Learning Algorithm Answers Furthermore, Coinbase is set to launch Shiba Inu futures on December 12 for institutional and retail investors, which could boost the meme coin’s adoption. Meanwhile, NYSE Arca has filed the 19b-4 for T. Rowe’s Shiba Inu ETF, bringing the ETF one step closer to launch.  Shibuzens also highlighted upgrades on the Shibarium network, which could provide a major boost for SHIB. This includes the RPC upgrade, while a full privacy upgrade has been confirmed using encrypted tech. There are plans to roll this out by next year.  At the time of writing, the Shiba Inu price is trading at around $0.000008498, up in the last 24 hours, according to data from CoinMarketCap. Featured image from Peakpx, chart from Tradingview.com

Shiba Inu has just logged its most intense burst of large-holder activity in half a year, raising questions over whether fresh volatility – and potentially renewed selling pressure – is around the corner. On-chain analytics firm Santiment reported the move on X, highlighting a six-month chart of Shiba Inu’s price, exchange balances and large transfers. According to the firm, “Shiba Inu has seen the highest amount of whale transfers since June 6th today, happening in tandem with a +1.06T net change to the amount of SHIB on exchanges. The #24 market cap in crypto is likely to see high volatility in the coming days.” What Does This Mean For The Shiba Inu Price? The chart shows 406 individual transactions exceeding $100,000 in value within a single day, the highest reading since early June. The second-highest peak occurred during the October 10 market meltdown, when roughly 300 SHIB whales were active, and the third came in mid-July, as more than 280 whales executed transfers. Related Reading: Shibarium Hack Fallout: Shiba Inu Team Criticized For Not Reporting Breach These “whale” transfers represent activity from large holders, trading desks and liquidity providers whose moves can materially affect market liquidity and order-book depth. At the same time, Shiba Inu’s exchange supply has jumped. Santiment’s overlay of “Supply on Exchanges (SHIB)” reveals a clear, abrupt uptick, annotated as “1.06T More SHIB On Exchanges in 24 Hours.” This reflects a net inflow of around 1.06 trillion tokens into exchange wallets, meaning more SHIB is now sitting in venues where it can be traded immediately. In market-structure terms, the combination of record recent whale activity and a sharp rise in exchange balances creates conditions that often precede significant price swings. Moving coins from self-custody to exchanges does not guarantee that they will be sold, but it increases the portion of circulating supply that is “sale-ready” and able to hit the order books at short notice. Related Reading: Will The Shiba Inu Price Hit A New All-Time High In 2025? Machine Learning Algorithm Answers Whether that translates into an outright dump is not yet visible on-chain. The same footprint could reflect whales preparing to sell, to arbitrage across venues, to supply liquidity, or to rebalance positions in anticipation of broader market moves. Santiment itself stops short of a directional call, limiting its guidance to the expectation that the Shiba Inu token “is likely to see high volatility in the coming days.” For now, the data point is clear: Shiba Inu’s largest holders have become more active than at any time since early June, and over a trillion additional tokens have shifted onto exchanges in just 24 hours. The direction of the next major move will depend on how that newly mobile supply is deployed. At press time, SHIB traded at $0.00000859. Featured image created with DALL.E, chart from TradingView.com

According to reports, it has been three months since the Shibarium Bridge hack that drained more than $3 million from users, yet the case has not moved into formal law enforcement channels. Related Reading: $300 Million Crypto Bet: Kazakhstan’s Central Bank Gears Up On-chain investigators traced a clear path of funds, and community members say the clues are strong enough to support an official probe. Still, exchanges are holding back unless a police case number is presented. On-Chain Trail Revealed Based on reports from on-chain sleuths, the attacker moved 260 Ether through Tornado Cash before routing 232.49 ETH to deposit addresses at KuCoin. The laundering path involved 111 wallets and 45 unique KuCoin deposits, according to a public breakdown by a community investigator known as Shima. Shibarium Bridge hacker foolishly chose not to accept the K9 bounty – it’s finally time to share the investigation we’ve been working on…???? this is juicy ???? The hacker made one stupid mistake and it completely unravelled their Tornado Cash laundering. ????????️???? That one mistake… pic.twitter.com/itxsXbbGSm — Shima 島。 (@MRShimamoto) December 1, 2025 A small mistake — a single transfer of 0.0874 ETH — linked otherwise hidden wallets and allowed the investigator to map much of the operation. The tracing work was shared with the Shiba Inu ecosystem team so it could be used to press for recovery. Why didn’t https://t.co/OoTvg1kraL call the police? Why isn’t there a report to the appropriate authorities to get a case number? Why have no law enforcement been involved in the https://t.co/OoTvg1kraL bridge hack? https://t.co/88Gdxi0rhh — Pulse Digital ???? (@CryptoPulse9) December 1, 2025 Practical Roadblocks To Recovery Tracing crypto through mixers remains difficult, even when the ledger gives clues. Exchanges often need subpoena power, legal requests or a case number to share account details. That requirement can leave strong on-chain leads stuck if a project does not file a police report. Community investigators can point the way, but many of the next steps depend on formal legal action and cross-border cooperation. Exchange Action Hinges On Case Number After Shima handed the findings to the project team, members of the community and teams such as K9 Finance stepped in. One representative, using the handle DeFi Turtle, reached out to KuCoin to ask that the exchange freeze the suspected funds. KuCoin replied that it would require a formal law enforcement case number before taking such action, based on the messages that have circulated in community channels. Without a police report, the exchange said it could not legally provide internal records or lock the linked accounts. Sleuth Offers Evidence To Victims Faced with slow institutional movement, Shima has offered the full dataset, the mapping work and the methodology to victims and to any law enforcement body willing to act. Victims in different countries may need to lodge complaints locally to create the case numbers that exchanges demand. Related Reading: XRP Is About To Hit A Major Turning Point This Week, Analyst Says Calls For Formal Complaints Shane Cook, founder of Pulse Digital Marketing, questioned why the Shiba Inu team had not filed an official complaint despite the on-chain evidence. Reports show the team previously confirmed the breach and said it had contacted security firms including PeckShield and Hexens. Cook’s criticism centers on the idea that technical analysis alone may not be enough; a legal filing is often required to make exchanges cooperate. The community now wonders whether the project prioritized reopening the bridge and repayment planning over pursuing legal routes. Featured image from Hacked.com, chart from TradingView

The world’s richest man, Elon Musk, recently posted a picture of a Shiba Inu, Dogecoin’s mascot. However, the Dogecoin price failed to react positively to the post, as it has most times done in the past when Musk made similar posts.  Dogecoin Price Fails To React to Elon Musk’s Shiba Inu Post The Dogecoin price failed to surge on the back of Elon Musk’s X post, in which he posted a meme of a Shiba Inu playing a banjo. DOGE has in the past rallied on the back of such posts because the Japanese dog breed is the meme coin’s mascot. Notably, the post comes amid a crypto market downturn, which has sparked bearish sentiment toward DOGE.  Related Reading: Analyst Predicts Dogecoin Price “Historic Mega Run” – Here’s The Target As such, this may explain why the Dogecoin price failed to rally on the back of Elon Musk’s X post. DOGE is currently struggling below the psychological $0.2 price level amid concerns that the crypto market may be in a bear market. The foremost meme coin and other altcoins have declined alongside Bitcoin, which is now way below the psychological $100,000 level.  However, amid speculations that the Dogecoin price may already be in a bear market, a positive for the foremost meme coin is Elon Musk’s announcement that X Money will launch soon. There has been a lot of speculation that DOGE could be included as a payment option in the social media platform’s payment system.  This remains a possibility, considering Elon Musk’s affinity for Dogecoin, even going as far as referring to himself as the ‘Dogefather.’ DOGE’s potential inclusion as a payment option on X Money could serve as a bullish catalyst for the Dogecoin price, as it would boost the meme coin’s utility  What’s Next For DOGE Amid Bear Market Concerns Crypto analyst CryptoCeek provided insights into what is next for the Dogecoin price as it continues to decline. In an X post, he noted that DOGE is drifting toward $0.14 again and that a breakdown below this level could put a further drop to $0.10 in sight. This puts the foremost meme coin at risk of losing its bull market structure.   Related Reading: Analyst Says Dogecoin Price Is About To Burst, Here’s The Target However, CryptoCeek added that a flip of the 20-day EMA can lead the Dogecoin price to reclaim $0.21. In the meantime, he declared that the range traders are still running the show. Meanwhile, crypto analyst Ali Martinez raised the possibility that Dogecoin’s price could drop to as low as $0.07. He stated that below $0.16, support for DOGE disappears quickly, with the next real demand zone at $0.07.  At the time of writing, the Dogecoin price is trading at $0.16, down in the last 24 hours, according to data from CoinMarketCap. Featured image from Freepik, chart from Tradingview.com

The Shiba Inu price and its trajectory over the last few months have been a source of growing concerns for SHIB investors as the meme coin has failed to secure any meaningful recovery. Despite the Bitcoin price rallying, Shiba Inu has remained quite muted, failing to reach new all-time highs through the bull rally. Therefore, with only two months left in the year 2025, the question remains as to whether the Shiba Inu price can still rally to new all-time highs. Machine Learning Algorithm Predicts Shiba Inu Price Trajectory The machine learning algorithm at the Coincodex website has shown a trajectory for the Shiba Inu price that suggests that the meme coin is destined for more sideways action this year. The prediction for the new year is that the meme coin will continue to trade in a very tight range. Related Reading: Institutions Have Been Buying Solana Every Day For 2 Weeks, Is $300 Possible? Even with the Shiba Inu price currently trending more than 88% below its all-time high from 2021, the machine learning algorithm does not see it bouncing anytime soon. For the rest of the year, the cryptocurrency is expected to trade under $0.000012. This puts it in the tight range of $0.00001-$0.000012. Interestingly, though, the same way the machine learning algorithm has predicted no increase, there is no expectation of a decline. The trajectory of the SHIB price over the next two months shows an almost straight line, and then continues into the year 2026 in the same manner. When Will SHIB Hit New All-Time Highs? According to the machine learning algorithm, SHIB investors awaiting the meme coin to hit a new all-time high have a long wait ahead of them. The long-term prediction suggests that the Shiba Inu price will not hit a new all-time high in the next decade. Related Reading: Dogecoin Price Rally Above $0.74 ATHs In The Works As HTF Trend Holds This long-term prediction moves through the next three decades, going all the way into the year 2050, and yet Sh. For most of the time, the algorithm suggests that the cryptocurrency will only see double-digit growth for each year over the next couple of years. Interestingly, historical data also support muted performance for the Shiba Inu price for the rest of the year. CryptoRank website shows an average return of 0.31% for SHIB for the month of November and -9.84% for the month of December. If these hold, then it means that the SHIB price is more likely to decline than recover as the year moves toward an end. Featured image from Dall.E, chart from TradingView.com

The Shiba Inu derivatives market is again heating up, providing a bullish outlook for the SHIB price. This comes as the crypto market rebounds, with SHIB also recording notable gains in the past few days.  Shiba Inu Derivatives Market Heats Up With Rising Open Interest CoinGlass data shows that the Shiba Inu derivatives market is heating up, with open interest rising as much as 15% on November 8. This indicates that traders are again betting on a significant price movement from the foremost meme coin. Notably, SHIB broke above the psychological $0.000010 level amid this rising open interest. Related Reading: Here’s Why Dogecoin And Shiba Inu Prices Are Crashing, Is A Recovery Possible? Further data from CoinGlass shows the long/short ratio is 0.9, indicating that more traders are betting on a Shiba Inu price surge than a decline. Meanwhile, this development comes as the crypto market rebounds from last week’s crash, which saw BTC drop below $100,000, dragging SHIB and other altcoins down. SHIB is up over 8% since last week.  Fundamentals, such as the application for a Shiba Inu ETF, have sparked this rebound in SHIB’s price. This is expected to drive institutional capital into the SHIB ecosystem, potentially triggering price rallies. Furthermore, the U.S. government shutdown could end soon, which is also bullish for the SHIB price alongside the broader crypto market.  From a technical analysis perspective, crypto analyst SHIB Knight noted that Shiba Inu is slowly accumulating and forming a bullish pattern. He added that once it breaks out of this low range, it will go higher. However, Santiment data shows that SHIB whales are still on the sidelines and are not accumulating more coins. The whales’ transactions (transactions above $100,000) have been on a downtrend, with most daily transactions over the last two weeks in the single digits. SHIB Eyes Rally To $0.0003 Crypto analyst Javon Marks has predicted that the Shiba Inu price could rally to $0.00003. This came as he noted that SHIB looks to be already broken out of a key accumulation. He added that with prices having shown bull divergences earlier this year, the meme coin may be preparing for a surge of around 200%, which will lead to a retest of the resistance in the $0.000032 range.  Related Reading: Shiba Inu Team Shares Major News, Could This Trigger A SHIB Bull Run? A positive for SHIB is the parabolic increase in the Shiba Inu burn rate. Shibburn data shows that the burn rate has increased by 145952.08% in the last 24 hours, with 621 million tokens burned during this period. This is a positive, given how these SHIB burns remove more coins from the circulating supply and could trigger a price increase as demand skyrockets.  At the time of writing, the Shiba Inu price is trading at around $0.00001005, up in the last 24 hours, according to data from CoinMarketCap. Featured image from Getty Images, chart from Tradingview.com

The Shiba Inu derivatives market is again heating up, providing a bullish outlook for the SHIB price. This comes as the crypto market rebounds, with SHIB also recording notable gains in the past few days.  Shiba Inu Derivatives Market Heats Up With Rising Open Interest CoinGlass data shows that the Shiba Inu derivatives market is heating up, with open interest rising as much as 15% on November 8. This indicates that traders are again betting on a significant price movement from the foremost meme coin. Notably, SHIB broke above the psychological $0.000010 level amid this rising open interest. Related Reading: Here’s Why Dogecoin And Shiba Inu Prices Are Crashing, Is A Recovery Possible? Further data from CoinGlass shows the long/short ratio is 0.9, indicating that more traders are betting on a Shiba Inu price surge than a decline. Meanwhile, this development comes as the crypto market rebounds from last week’s crash, which saw BTC drop below $100,000, dragging SHIB and other altcoins down. SHIB is up over 8% since last week.  Fundamentals, such as the application for a Shiba Inu ETF, have sparked this rebound in SHIB’s price. This is expected to drive institutional capital into the SHIB ecosystem, potentially triggering price rallies. Furthermore, the U.S. government shutdown could end soon, which is also bullish for the SHIB price alongside the broader crypto market.  From a technical analysis perspective, crypto analyst SHIB Knight noted that Shiba Inu is slowly accumulating and forming a bullish pattern. He added that once it breaks out of this low range, it will go higher. However, Santiment data shows that SHIB whales are still on the sidelines and are not accumulating more coins. The whales’ transactions (transactions above $100,000) have been on a downtrend, with most daily transactions over the last two weeks in the single digits. SHIB Eyes Rally To $0.0003 Crypto analyst Javon Marks has predicted that the Shiba Inu price could rally to $0.00003. This came as he noted that SHIB looks to be already broken out of a key accumulation. He added that with prices having shown bull divergences earlier this year, the meme coin may be preparing for a surge of around 200%, which will lead to a retest of the resistance in the $0.000032 range.  Related Reading: Shiba Inu Team Shares Major News, Could This Trigger A SHIB Bull Run? A positive for SHIB is the parabolic increase in the Shiba Inu burn rate. Shibburn data shows that the burn rate has increased by 145952.08% in the last 24 hours, with 621 million tokens burned during this period. This is a positive, given how these SHIB burns remove more coins from the circulating supply and could trigger a price increase as demand skyrockets.  At the time of writing, the Shiba Inu price is trading at around $0.00001005, up in the last 24 hours, according to data from CoinMarketCap. Featured image from Getty Images, chart from Tradingview.com

According to technical commentary from analyst Javon Marks, Shiba Inu appears to have left a long accumulation zone and may be entering a fresh bullish phase. The token first showed a breakout in March 2024 and pushed up toward $0.000046. It reached about $0.00003328 on December 8, 2024, before falling hard in 2025. Related Reading: Trump’s Bitcoin Bet Grows: American Bitcoin Now Holds Over 4,000 BTC Analyst Points To Accumulation Breakout Marks highlights early bullish signals, including what he calls bullish divergences on the MACD that showed up earlier this year. Based on reports, he expects a move back into the $0.000032 area. He even projects a potential 200% rally to that level from where the token trades now. From the current quoted price of $0.00001009, a push to $0.000080 would mean a rise of roughly 700% by his estimate. Those are large swings. Traders should note the math. $SHIB (Shiba Inu) looks to be already broken out of a key accumulation and prices, which showed bull divergences early this year, can be preparing here for an ~200% move to test a resistance in the $0.000032s again. pic.twitter.com/Xw104EUT75 — JAVON⚡️MARKS (@JavonTM1) November 9, 2025 Derivatives Activity Shows Traders Positioning For A Move Derivatives data adds another dimension. Reports show about $76 million in open interest tied to Shiba Inu contracts. Open interest jumped 15% over the weekend, and exchanges recorded 7.38 trillion tokens as outstanding futures exposure. Gate.io accounted for 47% of that total, which equals about $36 million on that platform alone. On a day of rising bets, SHIB hit a high of $0.00001032. Volatility Has Been Extreme SHIB’s path since December 2024 has been bumpy. After peaking above $0.00003 in late 2024, the token plunged to roughly $0.0000075 during the flash crash on October 10, 2025. It later recovered to about $0.00001003. Rapid moves like these show both the risk and the chance for big short-term gains. Positions in futures can make price swings bigger. What The Signals Might Mean For Traders According to the chart reading, breaking past $0.000032 would open a clear resistance band and could attract more buyers. Some market players will treat that level as a key test. Others will watch open interest and exchange concentration for signs of overstretch. Moves driven by sentiment and leverage can reverse quickly. Gains may be fast. Losses can be fast too. Related Reading: Trump Media Takes $55M Hit As Bitcoin Holdings Surge In Value Based on reports and the analyst’s posts, momentum appears to be building. But this is a trader-led setup more than a proof of long-term value. Technical signals, heavy derivatives exposure, and past wild swings all matter. Investors and traders should weigh the numbers: $0.000045, $0.00003329, $0.000032, $0.00001003, $0.0000075, $76 million, 15%, 7.38 trillion, and 47.13% are all part of the story. Featured image from Unsplash, chart from TradingView

The cryptocurrency market has been on edge in recent weeks, and two of its most recognized meme tokens, Dogecoin and Shiba Inu, have suffered the brunt of the sell-off. Both coins have seen significant price drops with low bullish whale activity, declining on-chain performance, and worsening market sentiment.  Dogecoin’s fall is aggravated by large holders selling massive amounts of tokens, while Shiba Inu’s troubles are due to its inability to sustain liquidity and demand through its layer-2 network, Shibarium. Together, their price crashes reflect the unease among retail traders concerning the two meme coins. Dogecoin And Shiba Inu Crashing Dogecoin and Shiba Inu’s price action has crashed notably in the past seven days. Dogecoin, for one, fell as high as 17% in a seven-day timeframe, and Shiba Inu also witnessed a comparable 12% drop.  Related Reading: Dogecoin Whales Are Offloading Hundreds Of Millions Of DOGE, Here Are The Facts Notably, on-chain data shows that Dogecoin’s recent crash was ignited by a large-scale sell-off from whale wallets holding between 10 and 100 million DOGE. The numbers show that these wallets offloaded roughly one billion coins within seven days. The resulting cascade effect pushed Dogecoin below a key support level near $0.18, which in turn triggered additional liquidations across derivatives markets.  As it stands, Dogecoin’s market capitalization had dropped from almost $30 billion to roughly $24.7 billion in the past seven-day timeframe. Trading volume has also surged massively within the past 24 hours, with most of the activity being selling pressure. Shiba Inu has faced its own share of bearish troubles in the past few days. Shiba Inu’s price action fell to around $0.0000089, its lowest price since January 2024. The token’s decline has been compounded by weak liquidity, low trading volume, and a marked slowdown in network activity.  Technical indicators confirm its prolonged downtrend, with Shiba Inu trading well below its 50-day, 100-day, and 200-day moving averages. Its Relative Strength Index is below 34, suggesting weak momentum with no sign of bullish divergence. Outlook: Can Dogecoin And Shiba Inu Recover? Both Dogecoin and Shiba Inu mostly depend on community hype, and that is virtually nonexistent as it stands. The wider crypto market downtrend in the past 24 hours has done nothing to help either, with many cryptocurrencies weakening against the growing dollar index. The entire crypto market fell by as much as 4% in the past 24-hour timeframe.  Related Reading: Shiba Inu Open Interest Crash To 2024 Levels, Is It Game Over For The Meme Coin? However, crypto history shows that meme coins tend to bounce strongly once overall crypto sentiment improves. Dogecoin’s long-term support around $0.15-$0.17 has always served as a turning point, while Shiba Inu’s oversold RSI could eventually draw bargain hunters if market conditions stabilize. For now, their recovery depends heavily on a better retail engagement and a strong market-wide relief rally, neither of which seems imminent in the short term. At the time of writing, Dogecoin is trading at $0.164 and is looking like it can reclaim its $0.17 support. Shiba Inu, on the other hand, is trading at $0.00000897. Featured image from Getty Images, chart from Tradingview.com

Shiba Inu has been added to the FTSE Grayscale Crypto Sectors Framework, a move that gives the meme coin fresh institutional recognition. Related Reading: Bitcoin May Be This Week’s Big Story As Saylor Teases Fresh Buy Marketing lead Lucie announced the development on X with a post titled “Good News for SHIB Holders.” According to the listing, SHIB joins the Consumer & Culture sector alongside Dogecoin, identifying it as a token tied to community, culture, and entertainment. Good news for SHIB holders Grayscale’s Market Byte Here Come the Altcoins from October 2025 officially lists Shiba Inu SHIB under the Consumer & Culture crypto sector in the FTSE Grayscale Crypto Sectors framework. SHIB is recognized by Grayscale Investments and FTSE Russell as… pic.twitter.com/8jBpKkP9PL — ???????????????????? (@LucieSHIB) November 2, 2025 Inclusion Signals Institutional Recognition Based on reports, the FTSE–Grayscale framework was launched in 2023 to sort crypto assets into clearer groups for investors. The framework covers five niches, and Grayscale’s latest report lists SHIB among the assets that meet the SEC’s Generic Listing Standards (GLS) criteria. The GLS rules, approved in September, let exchanges list crypto ETPs under a set of generic requirements rather than seeking individual sign-off for each token. That opens the door for more straightforward pathways to spot ETPs, although a token still needs an effective registration statement to trade as an ETF. Shiba Inu Among A Few Eligible Tokens Reports have disclosed that at least 11 cryptocurrencies across four sectors meet the GLS thresholds. In the Currencies sector, XRP, Litecoin, Stellar, and Bitcoin Cash are named. Smart contract platforms that qualify include Polkadot, Cardano, Solana, and Avalanche. Chainlink stands alone in Utilities & Services. In consumer and culture, only Shiba Inu and Dogecoin are recognized. Solana and Litecoin ETFs are already trading in the US, while Cardano, XRP, Dogecoin, and Bitcoin Cash are still awaiting approvals. Valour Inc. has issued a SEK-denominated ETP tied to SHIB in Europe, and asset manager T. Rowe Price has mentioned SHIB as a candidate for inclusion in its Active Crypto ETF, but SHIB does not yet have a standalone spot ETF filing in the US. Related Reading: From Greed To Terror: Bitcoin’s Fall Below $104K Sparks Extreme Fear Market Moves And Technical Notes Meanwhile, SHIB’s price action has been mixed. Based on market data cited by analysts, the token fell by over 6% in the past 24 hours and has experienced about 13% and 30% corrections in the last week and month, respectively. Source: Akbarkarimzsfeh/TradingView Those moves have pushed SHIB down to 34th in the crypto market cap rankings. TradingView commentator “Akbarkarimzsfeh” flagged a long-term support trendline that has in past cycles preceded sharp rebounds. The analyst argued that dips to that area have been followed by rapid rallies, suggesting the current pullback may be temporary. Featured image from Unsplash, chart from TradingView

Shiba Inu shows relative weakness versus broader crypto markets despite late-session bounce, with token burns failing to offset selling pressure during volatile trading.

The Shiba Inu open interest has been one of the worst-performing among the top cryptocurrencies by market cap in the year 2025. While there has been a general increase in open interest across the likes of Bitcoin and Ethereum, pulling the market up with them, Shiba Inu has not followed this trajectory. Instead, the meme coin’s open interest has crashed significantly, making new 2025 lows in the process. Shiba Inu Open Interest Crashes Below $100 Million At the start of the year, on January 16, 2025, the Shiba Inu open interest had hit a new all-time high above $519 million despite the SHIB price action remaining relatively muted. It wasn’t long until the open interest began to decline, and it has been mostly downhill from there since. Related Reading: Dogecoin Price Resurrection To $0.5 Could Be Imminent If This Level Breaks By the start of February 2025, the Shiba Inu open interest had crashed by more than 50%, recording one of the sharpest declines in the market. However, the open interest had managed to stay above the 2024 lows as the SHIB price fluctuations kept traders interested. Now, however, the majority of the open interest that was seen in Shiba Inu at the start of the year is almost completely gone. Data from the Coinglass website shows that the open interest has now fallen below $100 million for the first time in 2025, marking a new yearly low. The current average of around $89 million translates to an over 80% decline in the last 9 months, painting a similar picture to the alt coin’s price, which is down 88% from its 2021 all-time highs. As this decline continues, it continues to impact the price, affecting its ability to stage a meaningful recovery. SHIB Could Be At A Pivotal Point As mentioned above, the last time that the Shiba Inu open interest was this low was back in 2024, but the interesting thing is that periods of low interest have often preceded some of the biggest moves. Back in August 2024, the Shiba Inu open interest had fallen to its lowest levels since 2023, but the next three months would see a rapid increase in both interest and price. Related Reading: Evernorth Has Reached 95% Of Its XRP Treasury Target – Here Are The Numbers Times of low interest, such as these, have often been breeding grounds for accumulation ahead of the next move. Thus, the Shiba Inu open interest dropping to yearly lows could be setting the stage for another price rally. Featured image from, chart from Tradingview.com

Shiba Inu’s effort to grow beyond being a meme coin is struggling. Its blockchain network, Shibarium, was created to bring real use and value to the project, but it has not gained much attention or activity. Developer interest and user engagement are very low, and the network’s overall growth has slowed down sharply. Recent network issues, including technical troubles and security problems, have made things worse. Many users have left, and new projects are not joining. As a result, Shibarium now shows very little activity, leading many in the crypto community to call it a “ghost chain.”  Shiba Inu’s Struggle To Evolve Beyond A Meme Coin Shiba Inu tried to change its image from a simple meme coin into a real blockchain project capable of competing with other networks. The team launched Shibarium, a layer-2 blockchain, in 2023 to help make this move. However, this plan has not worked as expected, with Shibarium failing to attract developers, projects, or users and gaining no market share. Related Reading: XRP At $1,000 Is Peanuts If Used To Clear US National Debt; Pundit Explains According to data from DeFi Llama, Shibarium has only 18 developers since it began. It is a much lower number than on other blockchains, which have hundreds or even thousands of active developers. The total value locked (TVL) on the network, which shows how much money people have invested in it, has fallen to just $878,000.  Shibarium has also failed to attract any stablecoins, which are among the most widely used tokens in decentralized finance. Not a single stablecoin project has deployed on the network, reflecting Shibarium’s lack of presence in one of the most critical areas of the crypto world. Other newer and more active layer-2 networks like Base, Arbitrum, Plasma, and Linea have already moved far ahead, leaving Shibarium behind. Hacks And The Decline Of Shibarium Network Activity Things got worse for the network when ShibaSwap, the most popular decentralized app (dApp) on the Shibarium network, was recently compromised. The attack eroded user confidence and forced developers to pause a key bridge connecting Shibarium to other networks. Even with the bridge now active, most of the network’s activity stopped. Many users could not move their tokens or use apps, making the network almost entirely silent. Related Reading: Here’s Why The XRP Price Still Isn’t Bearish Despite The 50% Flash Crash Because of this drop in network activity, Shibarium is no longer helping burn SHIB tokens. Typically, a portion of network transaction fees goes toward buying and burning Shiba Inu tokens, helping reduce supply and support the token’s price. But now, with very few transactions, the burn process has slowed down significantly. The decline in users, developers, and activity are indicators that Shibarium’s dream of becoming a strong, useful blockchain has not come to fruition. Instead of growing into a central crypto platform, it has become what some would call the real ghost chain.  Featured image created with Dall.E, chart from Tradingview.com

Popular technician Charting Guy (@ChartingGuy) calls Shiba Inu “weak and choppy” and suggests the token may not break out until late in the current crypto cycle. Sharing a weekly Shiba Inu chart, he wrote on Oct. 26, 2025: “SHIB has been weak and choppy all cycle. Won’t do anything until the end imo.” How High Can Shiba Inu Price Go? The below TradingView chart is a weekly SHIB/USD study anchored to a Fibonacci ladder. The price marker on the right rail reads $0.000010205, placing SHIB fractionally below the 0.236 retracement band annotated at $0.000011043. Above that, the chart maps successive overhead levels at 0.382 near $0.000016434, 0.5 around $0.000022661, 0.618 near $0.000031247 and 0.786 at about $0.000049369. The red 1 line flags $0.000088410, with higher extension markers plotted at 1.272 ≈ $0.000185406, 1.414 ≈ $0.000272917 and a terminal 1.618 ≈ $0.000475605. A stylized projection trace on the chart depicts a late-cycle, near-vertical advance that only materializes after a prolonged base and then stalls inside the 1.0–1.272 cluster before breaking above the 1.272 Fib extension and topping below the 1.414 Fib extension roughly at $0.000022; the path visually reinforces the author’s contention that SHIB underperforms until the “end.” Related Reading: Shiba Inu Holds Firm Despite 18% Crash, 1.5M Holders Signal Faith in 2025 Recovery In a separate post on Oct. 24, Charting Guy ranked market structures across majors and large-cap altcoins, explicitly placing SHIB in his “Bad Looking Charts” bucket while labeling Bitcoin, Ether, XRP, Solana, BNB and Stellar as “Good Looking Charts.” His list read, in part: “Good Looking Charts: BTC, ETH, XRP, SOL, BNB, XLM … Decent Looking Charts: XDC, DOGE, PENGU, ADA, ONDO, SUI, AAVE, LTC … Eh Looking Charts: PEPE, FLOKI, FLR, LINK, BCH … Bad Looking Charts: SHIB, WIF, ETC, AVAX, FET, RENDER, INJ, CRV, ALGO, SOLO, COREUM, NEAR, VET, COMP, DOT, IOTA, FIL, ATOM, And many more.” What To Expect The technical message is unambiguous: on a weekly timeframe, SHIB remains capped beneath early Fibonacci thresholds that many chartists treat as momentum gates. Remaining below 0.236 typically signals that price has yet to reclaim even the shallowest retracement of the prior cycle; clearing it often opens room to test the 0.382–0.5 midpoint zone where trends either accelerate or fail. Related Reading: Here’s Why The Shiba Inu Price Could Bottom And Rise Another 40% In Charting Guy’s map, structurally meaningful inflection areas stack tightly from roughly $0.000016 to $0.000031, with the 0.618 level near $0.000031 attributed the role of a trend-confirmation threshold. The cycle-top roadmap he drew concentrates risk and reward into the higher cluster around $0.000088 to $0.000185, a range often watched by Fibonacci practitioners for exhaustion and distribution in late-stage moves. However, a rise to $0.00022 could still mean an incredible upside for SHIB of around 2,055.81%—a roughly 20.56-fold increase. Contextually, his relative-strength table is just as important as the levels. By grouping SHIB with other “bad looking” structures while upgrading Bitcoin, Ether, XRP, Solana and BNB, he is signaling an expectation that market breadth will remain narrow and quality-led before any speculative rotation into meme-beta like SHIB. That framework aligns with his succinct call that SHIB “won’t do anything until the end,” implying a sequencing view rather than a categorical dismissal. At press time, SHIB traded at $0.00001046. Featured image created with DALL.E, chart from TradingView.com