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136 Million SHIB Destroyed in Single Move, Burn Rate Jumps 1,433%

Sat, 04/01/2023 - 08:19
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Yuri Molchan
Over 202 million SHIB destroyed, almost all of it got burned in single transfer
136 Million SHIB Destroyed in Single Move, Burn Rate Jumps 1,433%
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Shibburn crypto tracker has reported that over the past 24 hours, the Shiba Inu community managed to get rid of a staggering amount of meme tokens, pushing the burn rate high up.

During the last 24 hours, the price of Shiba Inu has risen by 3.27% after a slight pullback.

Burn rate soars this high

According to data provided by the Shibburn website, during the period of the past 24 hours, the burn rate of SHIB rose by 1,433%. This happened after a total of 202,401,383 Shiba Inu meme coins were locked in dead wallets for good.

On Thursday, the SHIB army was able to remove only 8,209,953 meme tokens.

Details from the aforementioned website show that an anonymous wallet -9c253 burned a 136,221,189 SHIB lump in a single transaction. Three chunks of 2,600,000 SHIB were sent to an unspendable wallet from a -9e214 address. Then another wallet joined in, burning 55,687,745 SHIB.

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At the same time, yesterday it was reported that the Shiba Inu network saw a 700% rise in transactions. The increased activity here was also reflected in the rising burn rate.

Overall, a new milestone related to the number of total transactions was spotted on the Shibarium testnet (Puppynet) yesterday as well — this number surpassed 1 million transfers, according to data from BlockScout.

Puppynet release took place March 11, so it took only 20 days to surpass the 1-million milestone.

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Massive accumulation of SHIB continues

A few days ago, a whale calling himself "BlueWhale0073," who is ranked 254th by the WhaleStats tracker, acquired 99,297,904,247 Shiba Inu, paying $1,058,515 for that chunk of meme coins.

The whale sold it almost immediately, speculating on the price fluctuations of SHIB and pocketing healthy profit after a small SHIB rise. This happened as Shiba Inu remains the most-traded token for the 100 top whales on Ethereum and also the largest crypto asset in the USD equivalent held by them, per data from WhaleStats.

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About the author

Yuri is a crypto journalist interested in technology and technical innovations. He has been in crypto since 2017. Believes that blockchain and cryptocurrencies have a potential to transform the world in the future in many of its aspects. ‘Hodls’ major cryptocurrencies and has written for multiple crypto media outlets. 

His articles have been quoted by such crypto influencers as Tyler Winklevoss, John McAfee, CZ Binance, Max Keiser, etc.

Currently Yuri is a news writer at U.Today and can be contacted at yuri.molchan@u.today.