Analytics X account @lookonchain has reported that on June 5, a “crazy SHIB buy” took place as cryptocurrency whales accumulated a staggering amount of Shiba Inu meme coins.
It coincided with the price of the second largest meme cryptocurrency, SHIB, soaring by almost 8% within the past two days and a massive SHIB burn rate jump noted within the last 24 hours.
Trillions of SHIB absorbed by anon whales
@lookonchain revealed that nine wallets, which belonged to two anonymous whales, purchased a mind-blowing 1.356 trillion Shiba Inu, paying $35.2 million in fiat for them at an average price of $0.00002596 per meme coin.
What a crazy buy!
9 wallets(2 whales) spent $35.2M to buy 1.356T $SHIB at an average price of $0.00002596 in the past 12 hours!
Address:
0xFB67EF6fE609edAb1e0595e6815634E8E4db9cF7
0xb2f1956eAE0817dB73C4D542A4861eE485B7e7c6
0x607C26c976272459A0896065E03a9b70C0Ef04B5… pic.twitter.com/yfSUyFSLQy— Lookonchain (@lookonchain) June 5, 2024
SHIB whales seem to have become more active this week. Aside from the above-mentioned massive SHIB buy, on June 5, the same analytics data source reported that an anonymous “super big SHIB whale” accumulated 715.9 billion SHIB meme coins. That cost him 4,849 ETH, valued at $18.44 million at the time of performing the transaction.
This second SHIB purchase was made by a whale who accumulated 5.5 trillion Shiba Inu in SHIB’s early days for roughly $400 million and then sold that amount for approximately $121 million, when the SHIB price reached two peaks. Thus, he made more than $120 million of pure profit on those trillions of SHIB.
A $SHIB super big winner is buying $SHIB crazily, spending 4,849 $ETH($18.44M) to buy 715.9B $SHIB in the past 6 hours.
This guy spent only ~$400K to buy 5.5T $SHIB in the early stage and sold for ~$121M at 2 peaks.
He made more than $120M on $SHIB before, an amazing gain!😱… pic.twitter.com/iREp5jfj75
— Lookonchain (@lookonchain) June 5, 2024
The above-mentioned purchases took place as SHIB whales became active this week and coincided with the meme coin’s price soaring by more than 10% on June 5, reaching a peak of $0.00002630. Then a slight rebound followed, taking the price down by 2.65%.
As of this writing, Shiba Inu is changing hands at $0.00002258.
SHIB burns soar 3,895%
In the meantime, according to the Shibburn explorer, overnight, the Shiba Inu burn rate demonstrated an impressive surge, skyrocketing by almost 3,895%. A total of 4,829,147 SHIB was transferred to unspendable wallets (i.e., burned) in total.
The largest burn transaction here carried 4,039,143 SHIB to a dead-end wallet approximately 15 hours ago.
