Benzinga - by Khyathi Dalal, Benzinga Staff Writer.
Shiba Inu (CRYPTO: SHIB) is benefiting from market optimism and a rising burn rate, prompting traders to foresee an upcoming price rally.
What Happened: Shibburn data reported a burn rate of 434.6% in the past 24 hours, with more than 8 million coins burned in the past 10 hours alone. A total of 410.7 trillion coins have been transferred to dead wallet addresses.
Crypto trader Javon Marks, in his latest tweet, highlighted that SHIB has broken out of a "smaller" bull flag pattern, suggesting this could trigger another significant upward movement in its price.
Marks elaborated that the breakout could potentially continue an already impressive 210% run, targeting a price of $0.000081. He further noted that surpassing this target could lead to an additional 90% increase, pushing the price to $0.0001553.
Price Action: In the past 24 hours, SHIB is trading 1.6% higher to $0.00002599, taking its weekly gains to 8.2%.
Also Read: This Patient Shiba Inu Whale Pocketed $3.2M After Waiting 2.5 Years
Why It Matters: Crypto Basic cited Glassnode data showing that the “SHIB Army,” the community around Shiba Inu, has increased by around 100,000 members to 1.39 million since 2023.
IntoTheBlock data noted a 73.7% surge in Shiba Inu’s large transaction volume to $145.5 million, while daily active addresses spiked by 8.2%. Notably, transactions greater than $100,000 increased from 231 transactions as of May 20 to 327 transactions as of May 21. Shibariumscan reveals a total of 415.7 million completed transactions and total addresses of 1.8 million.
Citing IntoTheBlock data, U.Today reported a total of 5.58 trillion SHIB acquired by Shiba Inu whales in the past 24 hours.
What’s Next: The influence of meme coins and Bitcoin as an institutional asset class is expected to be thoroughly explored at Benzinga’s upcoming Future of Digital Assets event on Nov. 19.
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