The Shiba Inu ecosystem is dropping hint after hint of the much-anticipated launch of the Shibarium layer-2 blockchain soon. The community believes that tweets by Shiba Inu lead developer Shytoshi Kusama and official Twitter accounts related to the Shiba Inu ecosystem point to an early 2023 launch of Shibarium. As a result, the SHIB and BONE tokens rallied over 5% in the last 24 hours.

The wait is almost over. The much-awaited Shibarium Beta is about to launch “very soon” as per the lead SHIB developer, Shytoshi Kusama.

Shiba Inu (SHIB) has been lately making headlines with its growing technical and fundamental developments. Recently, the ownership structure of Shiba Inu has reached a crucial turning point. This occurs as a result of the percentage of long-term SHIB owners having crossed the crucial 60% mark; which suggests that the majority of network holders are serious investors.

BoneShibaSwap in a tweet on December 29 dropped another hint of the Shibarium blockchain launch in early 2023. Claiming it as the best information before 2023, it asserts that Shibarium is “very, very close.” The reason to believe this is the ShibariumScan.com website, which directly leads to ShibaSwap website. It indicates that “everything is being prepared.”

The official account of the Shib army news site, @theshibdream, has taken to Twitter to answer some questions about the recently kicked off SHIB army VIP social network, that they have been getting often, apparently.

Shiba Inu holders have burnt 24 million SHIB in 1 hour today, per a tweet from Shiba Inu burn tracker Shibburn.

Kusama says developers will not launch Shibarium during the holidays, urging users to spend time with their families.

Shiba Inu’s burn rate accelerates as Shiba Inu Community burned a whopping 27.29 Million SHIB in the past 24 hours. The major burn comes from the unknown wallet holding 313.44 Billion SHIB.

Leading canine-themed cryptocurrency Shiba Inu has announced plans to release a series of promotional videos over the coming months. According to a blog post today, these videos will highlight the current work being done on SHIB: The Metaverse and other new projects related to the cryptocurrency. 

A massive ratio of 64% of respondents reveals that holders are still diamond-handling Shiba Inu (SHIB).

Over 27.93 Million Shiba Inu (SHIB) burned in the past 24 hours, 21.53 Million in one significant transaction.

In a time when cryptocurrencies across the space are marking a decline in support, Shiba Inu has added over 10,000 new holders in the span of two weeks. This saw the total SHIB holders cross into the 1.26 million territory, marking more growth for the meme coin. In the last 24 hours alone, the number is up by 0.033%, according to data from Etherscan.

According to Etherscan.io, 7th biggest Shiba Inu holder splurged $1,664,887 ($1.66M) to accrue a staggering 198,437,172,379 (198.43B) SHIB through one significant transaction in the past 24 hours.

WazirX, one of the fastest-growing and largest cryptocurrency exchanges in India, recently published its report on customer behavior for 2022, revealing that Shiba Inu ranks as the most popular asset among first-time buyers on the platform. The meme coin also ranks among the most traded assets on the exchange in 2022.

The Shiba Inu dev team has continued to receive positive feedback following the launch of an updated version of the SHIB website. Several members of the Shiba Inu community, including lead developer Shytoshi Kusama, took to Twitter to commend the dev team for the website’s new look.

Shibarium’s Beta will “soon” launch, a top Shiba Inu’s dev revealed.

There is no doubt that Shiba Inu is currently among the top popular cryptocurrencies in existence. Shiba Inu has a large following on social media platforms, especially Twitter. The crypto asset boasts over 3.6M followers on the popular microblogging platform.

Over 14.13 Million SHIB burned in the past 24 hours, 8.49 Million in a single transaction, and 80.39 Million in the last five days.

Shiba Inu (SHIB) price tumbled over 3% in the last 24 hours, with the current price trading at $0.000008894. On-chain data indicates a big whale dumped over 210 billion SHIB tokens, causing the price to fall over 3% in the last 24 hours. The whale has a history of dumping Shiba Inu tokens that it purchased in 2020.

STC Bahrain customers can now pay their phone bills using SHIB.