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Shiba Inu (SHIB) is making serious waves as its Shibarium layer 2 platform just smashed through 4.6 million daily transactions, showing that this meme coin might have more staying power than skeptics thought.
Things are getting pretty crazy in the Shiba Inu world right now. What started as another meme coin has been quietly building something that's actually getting people's attention – and the numbers don't lie. Shibarium, their layer 2 solution, just pulled off something that has crypto traders doing double-takes at their screens.
SHIB's(Shiba Inu) Shibarium Just Delivered Some Insane Numbers
Here's where things get interesting. Shibarium went from processing a modest 63,820 transactions on June 4 to an absolutely bonkers 4.63 million transactions by June 9. We're talking about a 7,154% jump in just five days – the kind of numbers that make you check your calculator twice because they seem too good to be true.
Not too long ago, things weren't looking so hot. Back in late May and early June, Shibarium's transaction activity basically went flat. People were taking profits, the broader market was feeling shaky, and investor confidence was pretty much in the gutter. But this recent explosion in activity? It's like watching a sleeping giant wake up.
The bigger picture looks pretty solid too. The network has crunched through over 1.2 billion transactions in total (1,221,075,772 to be exact), created more than 11 million blocks, and now hosts over 264 million addresses. Those aren't small-time numbers.
Shiba Inu (SHIB) Holders Hit a New Record High
The adoption story gets even better when you look at who's actually holding SHIB. Lucie, who's part of the Shiba Inu team, dropped some interesting stats in a recent tweet – there are now 1,511,101 wallets holding SHIB tokens. That might sound like a random number, but it represents about 0.011% of everyone on the planet. For a cryptocurrency, that's actually pretty impressive reach.
The team hasn't been sitting around either. They just rolled out the SHIB DeFi toolkit, which is basically a major upgrade to how everything works behind the scenes. Users can now earn, trade, and burn tokens more efficiently, and that kind of infrastructure improvement usually means more people stick around for the long haul.
SHIB (Shiba Inu) Price Action Shows the Market is Paying Attention
All this technical progress is starting to show up where it counts – in SHIB's price action. The token was sitting at $0.000013 at press time, up 3.22% over 24 hours. That might not sound earth-shattering, but it's happening while Bitcoin just pushed past $110,000 for the first time in two weeks, so SHIB is riding some serious market momentum.
What's really telling is the trading volume – it's up 90%. When you see volume spikes like that, it usually means people are either rushing to get in or rushing to get out. Given the positive fundamentals and the broader market's mood, it looks like people are betting on SHIB having more room to run. The fresh optimism that's spreading through the crypto market seems to be giving projects like Shiba Inu the wind they need to really show what they're capable of.
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