• While whale accumulation has jumped for Shiba Inu, the SHIB Burn rate has dropped by nearly 100% in the last 24 hours.
• Shiba Inu lead developer Shytoshi Kusama said that more than 500 validators have shown interest in Shibarium.

The world’s second-largest memecoin Shiba Inu (SHIB) has come under strong selling pressure over the last two months while staying indifferent to the broader market rally. As of press time, SHIB is trading 2.46% down at a price of $0.00001033 and a market cap of $6.09 billion.

Although SHIB’s price movement hasn’t kept investors happy, there’s a strong accumulation by the whales. Over the last month, the total number of addresses holding over a trillion SHIB has increased by 5% and is now at 42. Besides, there’s also growth in the number of addresses holding between 1 million and 10 million SHIB tokens.

The accumulation of SHIB by these whale addresses could possibly signal a price rally going ahead. From a market perspective, the growth in the number of Shiba Inu trillionaires can be interpreted in a number of ways. This could suggest the growing interest in the memecoin and its potential for growth.

Shiba Inu burn Rate Drops 100%

With the price drop in the SHIB over the last couple of weeks, the burn rate for the SHIB cryptocurrency has been on a major decline. The dedicated Twitter handle ShibBurn which tracks the burn rate of Shiba Inu (SHIB) cryptocurrency has recently updated on the massive decline in the burn rate.

As per the latest update, the SHIB burn rate has dropped by nearly 100% whereas, over the past seven days, it has declined by nearly 50%.

The Shiba Inu community has been eagerly waiting for the launch of the Layer-2 scalability platform Shibarium. Shytoshi Kusama, the lead developer of Shiba Inu has faced major accusations as several launch delays have increased the doubts over the ecosystem.

However, Shythoshi Kusama has reassured investors regarding the Shibarium launch thereby trying to boost some confidence within the Shiba Inu community.

Over 500 Validators Show Interest in Shibarium

In the latest development, Shiba Inu’s pseudonymous lead developer Shytoshi Kusama has revealed a growing interest in Shibarium among validators. Shiba Inu developer @sunshineSHIB recently shared a screenshot from Kusama wherein he notes that more than 500 developers have shown interest in Shibarium.

The lead developer said that most of these validators have been invited to use the Shibarium Beta testnet. Kusama believes that giving validators early access to the protocol will help them decide ahead of the official launch of Shibarium. Kusama said.

“[…] That’s why most validators have received an email asking them to use the testnet beta to help them decide if this is what they want to do. I might have missed a few people who might have been tagged incorrectly, but last I checked there was 500 interested validators”.

Once Shibarium launches, these validators will be responsible for verifying the validity of transactions within the network.