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Story: Shiba Inu’s 703 Whales Control 94.5% of Supply as Price Sits 72% Below Year-Ago Levels

By Sydney TheCMO

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A One-Day Spike and What It Means. Earlier this month, Shiba Inu added 75,000 new wallet addresses in a single day.

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Exchange Reserves Drop to a Five-Year Low. One number that's getting attention: SHIB held on exchanges has fallen to 86.

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Shiba Inu has a whale problem. Less than 1,000 wallets hold 94.5% of the entire SHIB supply — and that single fact shapes pretty much everything happening with the token right now.

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The total holder count just hit a record 1,678,502 addresses. That sounds healthy. But dig into the breakdown and the picture gets murky fast.

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SHIB is trading around $0.000004235 right now. That's down 72% from where it was a year ago. Not a small dip — a collapse.

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One number that's getting attention: SHIB held on exchanges has fallen to 86.2 trillion tokens, a five-year low.

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And there's a legitimate case there. If the whales are moving tokens off exchanges rather than dumping them, that's a different story than a slow bleed into the market.

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More context: Shibarium Jumps 74% but SHIB Price Still Wont Budge for Traders

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Still, the bearish case is hard to ignore. Observers have flagged a 91% similarity between SHIB's recent price behavior and a bearish pattern that played out in 2023.

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The whale concentration makes that scenario more dangerous than it would be for a more evenly distributed asset.

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What's strange about Shiba Inu's market structure is that it combines genuinely wide retail participation — nearly 1.

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Read also: XRP Whales Add 2.8% to Holdings While Retail Sellers Exit Fast

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The declining exchange reserves are probably the most concrete bullish data point available right now. Everything else is pattern-matching and speculation.

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What's certain: 703 wallets hold 94.5% of the supply, the price is down 72% over the past year, and exchange reserves just hit a five-year low of 86.2 trillion tokens.

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