SHIB Token Surges by 1946.11% within a Week

Today, despite the fact that most mainstream cryptocurrencies have fallen back, the SHIB token has proven to be the exception, rising by 123.63% in the past 24 hours. Within a week, SHIB token has surged by an impressive 1946.11%.

SHIB is the native token of the SHIBA INU network and is the first ERC-20 token to be listed and incentivized on ShibaSwap decentralized exchange.

Binance crypto exchange elaborated on SHIB token and said:

"SHIBA INU (SHIB) is an experiment in decentralized community building and another meme coin similar to Dogecoin."

SHIB was officially launched in August 2020, when the decentralized finance market was making huge strides and growing exponentially. The founder of SHIB token Ryoshi issued a total of 1,000 trillion SHIB. 50% of the tokens were locked into Uniswap to provide liquidity, while the remaining 50% was allocated to Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin.

SHIBA INU was launched on OKEx, Huobi Global, and Binance on May 8, 9, and 10 respectively. The cryptocurrency rapidly became popular within the crypto sector.

SHIB is also whimsically known as the ‘Doge Killer’ as SHIB, due to its relatively low price, is attracting Dogecoin investors.

The popularity of Shiba Inu Coins gained massive traction due to the following reasons:

Firstly, SHIB token's initial starting price is relatively low. Therefore, investors can spend a small amount of funds and still gain hundreds of thousands of SHIB. For new-entry investors, the entry barrier is relatively low.

Secondly, due to the extremely high FOMO (Fear of Missing Out) sentiment in the bull market, SHIB token quickly gained a lot of traction. Investors, fearing that they were missing out on an incredibly opportunity, jumped on the chance to invest in SHIB, as they did not want to miss out on any chance of getting rich.

The third reason why SHIB surged by so much in so little time is due to billionaire Elon Musk's endorsement of Dogecoin. Elon Musk tweeted on May 7 that he was looking for a Shiba pup, sending SHIB higher.

Shiba Inu (SHIB) has now entered the top 20 rankings of CoinMarketCap and is currently ranked No.17. It may well be a trader's response to the hype surrounding Dogecoin (DOGE).

At the time of writing, SHIB is trading at $0.00003225.

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