Around 41% of shiba inu’s total supply is burned
- About 41% of
shiba inu ‘s total supply is burned – meaning those coins are no longer in circulation. - Shiba inu is an ethereum-based alternative to
dogecoin founded in August 2020. - It has a total market valuation of nearly $37 billion and has become the 10th-largest cryptoasset.
Shiba inu investors have been riding high on the
But what many may not realize is about 41% of the token’s total supply is burned – meaning those coins are not in circulation anymore, data by
Etherscan showed.
According to a list of the cryptocurrency’s top 10 holders, about 10% of the tokens were purchased by
cryptocurrency platforms such as
The team behind
total token supply on Uniswap, according to its
website.
The remaining 50% was gifted to ethereum cofounder Vitalik Buterin, who donated the majority of it – about
$1 billion at that time – to a crypto-based COVID-19 relief fund for India. He then “burned” the rest, permanently taking the supply out of circulation.
Shiba inu is an ethereum-based alternative to dogecoin. It was founded in August 2020 by someone going by the name Ryoshi, whose goal was to move away from “rigid social structures and traditional mindsets,” according to the coin’s 28-page white paper, dubbed a “woof paper.”
Its
unlikely rise has catapulted the meme-inspired cryptocurrency to a total market valuation of nearly $37 billion. It was the 10th most valuable cryptocurrency as of Thursday.
Editor’s note: We have corrected a previous version of this story, which used data from CoinMarketCap in referring to the top 10 shiba inu holders. We have now used Etherscan, a different tool, which shows blockchain transactions in more detail. We have clarified that a huge percentage of the shiba inu supply is burned. We have also changed the headline to reflect that.