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Story: Shiba Inu’s Shytoshi Kusama Goes 74 Days Dark on X as SHIB Burns Climb

By James Thorp

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What the Community Is Actually Doing. Without Kusama posting, the Shiba Inu community has basically shifted its focus to two things:…

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SHIB Burn Numbers Are Actually Moving. Here's the thing that's keeping the mood from turning fully negative: the burn activity is picking…

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Silence With a History Behind It. Kusama's breaks aren't random, or at least they haven't felt that way historically.

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Shytoshi Kusama hasn't posted on X in 74 days. Not a like, not a reply, nothing — and the Shiba Inu community is getting loud about it.

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The last time Kusama's account showed any activity was May 13. Since then, silence. For a lead ambassador who built his reputation on direct, sometimes cryptic engagement with…

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No confirmation. No update. Just a blank profile and a community left reading tea leaves.

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Without Kusama posting, the Shiba Inu community has basically shifted its focus to two things: ecosystem contributors and on-chain data.

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During past breaks, he's reportedly dropped subtle hints through bio or location changes on his X profile — cryptic stuff, but enough to get the community buzzing.

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Shibburn tracked a 66% jump in the daily burn rate. In just the last 24 hours, 7.15 million SHIB got sent to dead wallets. Zoom out to the past month and that figure climbs to 288.

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See also: Shiba Inu Hits 100 Trillion SHIB in Circulation as Oversupply Pressure Mounts

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Pull back even further and the all-time burn total stands at 410,840,455,020,349 SHIB across 21,280 transactions. That's a lot of zeros.

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The burn rate climbing while Kusama stays silent is an interesting dynamic. Supply is shrinking. The lead voice is absent.

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Kusama's breaks aren't random, or at least they haven't felt that way historically. The community has come to associate his extended absences with something brewing — a project…

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The AI project he mentioned in January is the most obvious candidate for what's keeping him occupied.

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And the community isn't just waiting passively. Burn contributions are climbing. Robinhood keeps transacting. On-chain data keeps flowing.

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