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Massive amounts — 1.5 billion Shiba Inu tokens — were reported by the Shibburn Twitter account to have been burned in the last 24 hours.
In the past 24 hours, there have been a total of 1,524,520,814 $SHIB tokens burned and 12 transactions. Visit https://t.co/t0eRMnyZel to view the overall total of #SHIB tokens burned, circulating supply, and more.
— Shibburn (@shibburn) April 15, 2023
Shibburn reports that in the past 24 hours, there have been a total of 1,524,520,814 SHIB tokens burned and 12 transactions.
Within the said time frame, the SHIB burn initiative reported a handful of transactions carrying millions of SHIB to be burned.
Noteworthy is a huge burn transaction reported on April 14 at about 8:16 a.m., in which 1.49 billion SHIB (1,494,278,561 SHIB) was transferred to a dead wallet.
🔥🔥🔥 1,494,278,561 $SHIB -> transferred to dead wallet. https://t.co/AwJ66xf10d
— Shibburn (@shibburn) April 14, 2023
Another notable burn transaction is that of 16.7 million SHIB (16,712,083 SHIB) sent to the burn address in a single transaction.
SHIB had an initial total supply of 1 quadrillion or 1,000,000,000,000,000 tokens. According to the Shibburn website, the total burned so far from the initial supply is 410,632,927,829,053 SHIB.
At the time of writing, SHIB was marginally down in the last 24 hours at $0.00001124.
Shibarium beta interacting wallet addresses surpass 5 million
Shibarium, the Layer-2 solution for the Shiba Inu ecosystem, is seeing a massive utility spike as the total number of interacting wallets has surpassed the 5 million mark to stand at 5,833,853 at the time of writing.
The game changer #Shibarium crossed the border of 5 million wallets$SHIB $BONE $LEASH #SHIBARMY forever ♾️ pic.twitter.com/yXxUxkwtnD
— Ali Needazar™ (@needazar) April 15, 2023
On March 11, Shibarium beta's "Puppynet" went live, allowing users to test the Layer 2 protocol's capabilities and find any problems that needed to be fixed before the mainnet launch. Testing remains on course as Shibarium beta continues to set new milestones.
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