According to the data published by the popular wallet tracker Shibburn, during the past week, a mammoth amount of SHIB meme coins has been driven out of the market and out of circulation.
The SHIB burn rate displayed a three-digit increase.
Burn rate jumps 385% with 329.6 million SHIB torched
The aforementioned data source revealed that during the past week, the SHIB community managed to dispose of an astounding lump of meme coins – 329,633,128 SHIB. That resulted helped to lift the weekly SHIB burn rate by 358.82%.
The largest single amount of Shiba Inu meme coins burned over this period was 263,709,608 SHIB and it was transferred to an unspendable wallet seven days ago. That burn was followed by substantial ones that destroyed 15,695,312 and 16,537,925 SHIB.
HOURLY SHIB UPDATE$SHIB Price: $0.00001288 (1hr 1.05% ▲ | 24hr 1.96% ▲ )
Market Cap: $7,587,765,510 (1.92% ▲)
Total Supply: 589,251,657,804,447TOKENS BURNT
Past 24Hrs: 420,814 (-97.49% ▼)
Past 7 Days: 329,633,128 (358.82% ▲)— Shibburn (@shibburn) May 7, 2025
As for the daily burn rate, it is currently in the red zone, showing minus 97.49%, according to Shibburn. Earlier, U.Today reported a staggering daily SHIB burn rate jump of six digits – 468,968%. That was achieved thanks to the community burning 18,851,865 SHIB.
As of now, there are 584,422,998,412,933 SHIB left circulating in the market. 410,748,342,195,552 SHIB from the original one-quadrillion supply has been burned already. The majority of it was moved to dead wallets in May 2021 by an Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin after 500 trillion SHIB were presented to him by the mysterious SHIB founder Ryoshi.
Scam warning to SHIB army from the team
The official marketing lead of the Shiba Inu team, know to the community as Lucie, has addressed the SHIB army to warn them against the danger of cryptocurrency scams.
Lucie reminded the community about the existence of scammers in the cryptocurrency space. She stated that it is necessary to learn from mistakes: “You learn. You remember. You don’t forget.” DYOR is a popular acronym among crypto enthusiasts, standing for “do your own research.”
Scammers exist. Sure.
But I believe in the natural intelligence of people.You get screwed once?
You watch a scam once?You learn.
You remember.
You don’t forget.That’s how it works.
Fool me once… good luck doing it twice.
Check out https://t.co/KBMdomim9y pic.twitter.com/EWPSlgYtXX— 𝐋𝐔𝐂𝐈𝐄 (@LucieSHIB) May 7, 2025
It is crucial to verify all fraudulent looking projects, SHIB ecosystem tokens, giveaways, etc. The regular set of security rules also includes avoiding connecting wallets to dubious websites and sharing personal data with scammers pretending to be SHIB team members.
