SHIB Burns Jump 161,540% As 8.5 Billion SHIB Disappear Forever.
According to the Shibburn wallet tracker, the SHIB burn rate has surged by an astounding 161,540% within the last 24 hours. With this massive uptick in this important metric, more than 8 billion Shiba Inu have been moved out of circulation.
In the meantime, the SHIB price has not followed the burn rate, demonstrating at 2.61% decline over the past day and night.
Close to 9 billion SHIB gets burned.
The aforementioned data source shows that the SHIB chunk that was burned this time is enormous and constitutes a whopping 8,593,932,621 meme coins in total. The whole process of burning took ten transactions. However, nearly all of it was transferred to dead-end blockchain addresses in a single move, carrying 8,533,564,693 nine hours ago.
The second and the third biggest burn transactions included 24,000,000 SHIB and 20,000,000 SHIB made fifteen and seven hours ago, respectively. Data shared by Etherscan shows that the 8.5 billion Shiba Inu were sent out of circulation by none other but the Shiba Inu team itself.
This is the third SHIB burn exceeding 8 billion meme coins that has been made this month by the Shiba Inu developers spearheaded by pseudonymous Shytoshi Kusama.
These massive SHIB chunks are getting burned using Shibarium fees, which are getting converted from BONE tokens into SHIB gradually. Earlier this month, U.Today reported that the SHIB team had already set aside $1,000,000 worth of Bone ShibaSwap coins for burning.
Some suggested that not only SHIB should be burned but a part of these BONE tokens too but Shytoshi Kusama stepped in to emphasize that it is only SHIB that must be transferred to unspendable wallets.
Shibarium keeps hitting new milestones.
Meanwhile, the Layer-2 solution Shibarium has managed to set a new utility record as it has surpassed the milestone of 160,000,000 transactions in total. The daily number of transfers has declined a little, dropping from 7.8 million to the 5.53 million at the time of this writing.
