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Early investors who committed $1,000 in Shiba Inu at its launch are still on life-changing gains despite the recent price dip.
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Several tales have been told of how Shiba Inu transformed the lives of early investors, making them rich within a short time. Meanwhile, some early investors watched their investments shrink to almost nothing before the rally.
Shiba Inu Early Performance
In a tweet today, Roarger, a moderator of the Buckazoids crypto project, disclosed how dramatic the returns on a $1,000 Shiba Inu investment have been since its early days.
The accompanying table suggests that SHIB started trading at an initial price of $0.000000000510 on August 1, 2020. At this price, a $1,000 investment in SHIB fetched early investors 1.96 trillion SHIB tokens.
However, the price plummeted so much that it dropped to around $0.000000000001 on December 31, 2020. This saw the $1,000 investment in SHIB shrink to $1.96, leaving many underwater with no hope of recovery.
However, the tide changed in favor of Shiba Inu, as it rose from the ashes and eventually soared to $0.00000001 in January 2021, pushing investors’ $1,000 stake to $19,607. Shiba Inu’s vibrant community members promoted SHIB heavily, with more investors also purchasing the asset.
On March 31, 2021, SHIB’s price skyrocketed to around $0.00000005 as the value of the 1.96 trillion SHIB portfolio also rose to $98,039.
$1K Stake Turns Into Millions of Dollars
The meme coin frenzy in April-May 2021 also impacted Shiba Inu’s remarkable growth. During this period, top exchanges like Binance listed SHIB, and Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin burned nearly half of the token’s supply.
These events resulted in Shiba Inu’s price soaring to $0.0000088 on May 31, 2021, with the same $1,000 stake exploding into $17.25 million. However, SHIB experienced a retracement from this level and dropped to $0.0000063, retracing the $1,000 initial stake to $12.35 million in July.
SHIB continued its downturn, dropping its price to $0.0000028 by October 8, causing the returns to shrink to $5.49 million.
However, SHIB staged a major comeback that same month, eliminating a zero and reaching an all-time high of $0.00008845. At ATH, the initial $1,000 staked in SHIB at the time of its launch jumped to a whopping $173.43 million.
Returns Still in the Millions Despite Dips
Since SHIB clinched the ATH target, its price has plunged dramatically and eventually reached $0.00002143 on January 31, 2022. At this price, the value of the $1,000 SHIB investment, which peaked at $173 million in October 2021, crashed to $42 million.
Things got worse for SHIB amid a broader market downturn driven by the FTX crash in late 2022. On January 31, 2023, its price dropped further to $0.00001181, and the stake also plummeted to $23.15 million.
Shiba Inu continued to experience decline and eventually added another zero a year later. It traded at around $0.00000894 by January 31, 2024, pushing the value of the stake down to $17.52 million.
Interestingly, Shiba Inu participated in the broader market relief rally driven by the reelection of pro-crypto President Donald Trump. On January 31, 2025, its price stood at $0.00001889. By then, the stake rose to around $37.03 million.
However, SHIB’s performance has worsened ever since due to the global tariff war. It currently trades at $0.000012, bringing the stake down to $23.52 million.
In the meantime, investors are still hopeful that SHIB will recover its post-election gains and eventually reach loftier targets above $0.0001. If this happens, the initial $1,000 invested in Shiba Inu at the time of its launch would skyrocket to $196.07 million.
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