- SHIB has been trending for over a week thanks to ETH whales.
- Two of the top ETH Whales collectively bought around 500 billion SHIB worth around $12 million.
- SHIB is currently among the top 10 purchased tokens, the most held ETH token, and the highest ETH token position by dollar value.
SHIB has been trending for over a week now. The Ethereum-based altcoin has been garnering attention from Ethereum’s top whales left and right – climbing up the ranks of the top 10 purchased ETH tokens, the most held ETH token, and the biggest token position by dollar value.
On April 25, ETH Whale “Bombur” bought 51,799,991,288 SHIB – almost 52 billion of the cryptocurrency token. “Bombur” spent $1,178,967 – almost $2 million on the SHIB purchase. The cryptocurrency whale is currently ranked #16 on WhaleStats.
ETH whale “Bombur” just bought 51,799,991,288 $shib ($1,178,967 USD).Ranked #15 on WhaleStats: https://t.co/3ADbDHvWPW
Transaction: https://t.co/iGgIbrzEEA#SHIB #ShibArmy
— WhaleStats – BabyWhale ($BBW) (@WhaleStats) April 25, 2022
A few hours before this purchase, SHIB was already on the top of the tokens that the top 2,000 ETH whales are hodling. The whales held over $1.3 billion worth of SHIB, while in second place was FTX. The FTX whales held a total value of more than $1.1 billion. In a very far third place is BEST (NYSE:BEST) which ETH whales held a total value of over $380 million.
The top 2000 #ETH whales are hodling$1,396,267,738 $SHIB$1,163,118,319 #FTX Token$380,769,176 $BEST$301,372,998 $MATIC$291,560,066 $OKB$270,222,893 $MANA$265,961,026 $LINK$248,555,472 $CHSB
Whale leaderboard https://t.co/R19lKnPlsK pic.twitter.com/Qqh1IliBrN
— WhaleStats – BabyWhale ($BBW) (@WhaleStats) April 25, 2022
All these trends spark good news for SHIB. The more tokens in circulation around the market, the more stable the price of the token will become. Additionally, it shows the dedication and confidence that the SHIB Army has towards the token. These funds could be used for the further projects that SHIB is planning, such as Shiba Inu Metaverse Lands.
Additionally, on the third week of April, the 5th largest ETH Whale “BlueWhale0073” bought a cumulative 420 billion SHIB worth $10 million collectively.
ETH whale “BlueWhale0073” just bought 193,419,098,244 $shib ($4,821,938 USD).Ranked #5 on WhaleStats: https://t.co/RBupemZyZX
Transaction: https://t.co/dcjl0mldog#SHIB #ShibArmy
— WhaleStats – BabyWhale ($BBW) (@WhaleStats) April 18, 2022
This was the first surge that caused SHIB to be on the list of Top 10 purchased ETH tokens at the time.
ETH whale “BlueWhale0073” just bought 223,761,580,609 $shib ($5,781,999 USD).Ranked #5 on WhaleStats: https://t.co/RBupemZyZX
Transaction: https://t.co/v2U1IdkLjN#SHIB #ShibArmy
— WhaleStats – BabyWhale ($BBW) (@WhaleStats) April 15, 2022
On the other hand, despite the huge amount of SHIB bought by whales, it barely makes a dent in the total supply. This is because SHIB has a circulating supply of a staggering 549 trillion, which makes the 500 billion a mere 0.09% of the current circulating supply.
Perhaps this could be the beginning of a huge surge from ETH Whales. Now, we’re seeing 500 billion worth of SHIB being bought in the span of a single week. Who knows how much more SHIB will be bought as a result of these Whales’ purchases?
At this rate, if the SHIB Army sees hundreds of billions of SHIB bought every week, that trillion barrier could be broken in no time.
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