Long-time Shiba Inu community member Mazrael has pushed back against claims that Shiba Inu layer 2 Shibarium is no longer functioning, saying the network remains operational despite concerns surrounding individual projects.
Mazrael’s comment comes amid claims by former Shibarium-based project K9 Finance, whose developers shared a final update on its wind-down and sunset. In its update, the K9 Finance team claimed that since the Shibarium hack in September 2025, neither Shibarium nor its explorer has worked reliably, saying the Shiba Inu layer 2 “is still not reliable to this day.”
In response to this claim, Mazrael clarified that Shibarium isn’t “abandoned,” saying that “there is infrastructure running, validators/archive infrastructure, and thousands of daily transactions and work on chain as well as environment migrations.”
K9 has every right to decide Shibarium is no longer an environment they want to operate in… after their fake Leash raid and Shane’s (k9finance account) silencing of our Shibariumnet network account for over a year other than the occasional pumpfun threats on our network account…
— Mazrael.shib (@Mazrael_shib) August 22, 2026
“People are still building, CCIP lanes with all major chains are live and transactions are still happening, infrastructure is still being maintained and migrated, and the community is still operating around it,” Mazrael added.
Mazrael noted that K9 Finance sunsetting KNINE on Shibarium is not the same thing as Shibarium being sunset. Following the dissolution of the K9 Foundation, KNINE has now been migrated from Shibarium to Base, and all liquidity has been moved with it.
Shibarium explorer faces reset
Shibarium explorer, ShibariumScan, is currently experiencing a reset with 49% of blocks indexed, which might affect the current count on the chain. Notwithstanding, the daily transaction count totaled 1,530, a drop from August 20’s figure of 2,310.
As reported, Shibarium’s explorer went behind Cloudflare on August 11, with a DNS change being part of the outage story.
Mazrael noted that Cloudflare was already being used for DNS, but this pointed straight at the server. On August 11, this was switched to proxied. Mazrael described this as an infrastructure migration, which lines up exactly with the explorer coming back as a stock deployment. The branding and .shib config remained missing, and the backfill was frozen after. The Shibarium explorer has returned online, and it remains so to the present.
