Is 400 Trillion SHIB Tokens Burned Enough For a Bull Run?

On April 23rd, the Shiba Inu Ecosystem announced the establishment of a “burning gateway,” through which it will begin the process of burning SHIB tokens. According to a blog post that was written by the people in charge of developing the Shiba Inu project, the purpose of burning SHIB is to lower the number of tokens that are currently in circulation. As a result, the developers hope to create a scarcity that would cause the price to increase.

The developers mentioned that in order to incentivize the participants of its ecosystem,

“This portal has been built to reward $SHIB burners, with a passive income acknowledgment, in the form of $RYOSHI Rewards. Meaning that 0.49% of all RYOSHI transactions will be distributed to owners of $burntSHIB.”

However, 65 days after the beginning of the burning process and after 410,370,460,561,720 SHIB tokens have been removed from circulation, the memecoin creators have found that things have not gone according to their plans. The price of SHIB has significantly decreased as a direct result of the general bear market that has been going on in the cryptocurrency market. Here is what we know about the alternative’s performance since the debut of the burn portal, which comes at a time when the team is getting set to start compensating customers who burned their SHIB tokens.

Over the course of the past 65 days, there has been a consistent drop in the price of SHIB. When it started on the 23rd of April, the burning process, the price of a single SHIB token was $0.000024. At the time of this writing, the cryptocurrency was trading at $0.00001148, representing a drop of 109 percent from its previous value.

In addition to that, the market capitalization was estimated to be $13.36 billion sixty-five days ago. This figure was down to $6.28 billion at the time the article was published.

Since the beginning of the fire, SHIB has had a difficult time keeping the bears off of its back. The relative strength index (RSI) for the token has spent the previous 65 trading days below the 50-point level that represents neutrality. On the other hand, the cryptocurrency had some reprieve on June 21 and sought to pass over.

This provoked a response from the bear, one that drove it further to the south. Despite this, the bulls were able to force one more correction, which resulted in the RSI moving in the opposite way. The RSI showed a reading of 56.16 at the time of publication.

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In spite of the coin burning taking place for 65 days, on-chain data demonstrated that the performance of SHIB was not significantly affected in any way.

Since May 12th, for instance, the number of different addresses used in SHIB transactions on a daily basis has been steadily decreasing. By the time this article was published, the number of daily active users on the network had dropped by 90 percent.

In addition, during the time period under consideration, the Shiba Inu network did not experience a significant amount of expansion. Since the 12th of May, the amount of newly established addresses on the network each day has decreased by more than 200 percent, according to the data provided by Santiment.

On the social front, the volume of social activity experienced a decrease of 87 percent during the same time period. Despite this, there was a consistent increase in social dominance, leading to a 10% increase in total, despite the fact that there were some dips along the way.