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Shiba Inu (SHIB) Plunges as Vitalik Buterin Removes Liquidity from Uniswap Pool

Wed, 05/12/2021 - 18:34
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Alex Dovbnya
The end of canine meme coins? Vitalik Buterin has removed 95 percent of liquidity from a Shiba Inu pool
Shiba Inu (SHIB) Plunges as Vitalik Buterin Removes Liquidity from Uniswap Pool
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Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin has removed 95 percent of liquidity from a Shiba Inu (SHIB) Uniswap pool. This amounts to 13,291.13 ETH and the equivalent sum of SHIB.  

Buterin was undoubtedly the biggest Shiba Inu whale after receiving 50 percent of the cryptocurrency's total supply from developers. SHIB's initial supply was a whopping 1 quadrillion tokens, but half of them were locked away.        

Shiba Inu's "woofpaper"—which was released on May 1—cited the project's co-founder who saw VB's holdings as a "vulnerable point."

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Charitable efforts 

Buterin has donated over $1 billion in proceeds from SHIB sales to a crypto-based pandemic relief fund for India. 

Apart from SHIB, Buterin has also sold Akita Inu (AKITA) tokens that were also sent to him by the devs. They have been sent to Web3 development center Gitcoin.          

SHIB is currently down almost 40 percent over the past 24 hours, according to CoinMarketCap data. This comes after the Dogecoin-inspired canine meme token exploded in price because of this week's Binance listing. AKITA is also under severe pressure, plunging by nearly 50 percent.     

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Alex Dovbnya (aka AlexMorris) is a cryptocurrency expert, trader and journalist with extensive experience of covering everything related to the burgeoning industry — from price analysis to Blockchain disruption. Alex authored more than 1,000 stories for U.Today, CryptoComes and other fintech media outlets. He’s particularly interested in regulatory trends around the globe that are shaping the future of digital assets, can be contacted at alex.dovbnya@u.today.