410 Trillion Shiba Inu Tokens Have Been Burned, Price Remains Stagnant

Shiba Inu SHIB/USD tokens are constantly burned by the community, but the meme-based cryptocurrency hasn’t managed to reverse its declining price trend.

What Happened: According to an update from Shibburn, an account that tracks all Shiba Inu token burning, more than 410 trillion SHIB tokens have been burned so far.

This amounts to 41% of the initial supply of 1 quadrillion SHIB tokens. However, with 549 trillion SHIB still in circulation, community-led efforts to burn tokens seem to have had little to no effect on the price.

Its Dogecoin DOGE/USD rival is down by more than 60% from its all-time high of $0.00008845 in October 2021. Still, its community continues to contribute to SHIB burn events in the hopes that by reducing existing coins from circulation, its price will eventually go higher.

In December 2021, Bigger Entertainment Inc. organized a SHIB Burn Christmas Party that set out to burn 176 million SHIB in a live-streamed event.

The week saw 1.14 billion SHIB tokens burned, largely due to Bigger Entertainment’s Spotify Technology SA SPOT playlist that burns SHIB with every stream.

Despite the continued efforts to burn tokens and the large whale purchases of SHIB tokens, the cryptocurrency’s price continues to stagnate at around $0.00003308.

SHIB has lost 15.3% in the last week but is still up by a whopping 34,988,291% over the course of one year.

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