While the Shiba Inu ($SHIB) price remains near the critical level of $0.000004249, a major withdrawal of 1.16 trillion tokens worth approximately $4.95 million has been recorded from Coinbase’s Ethereum infrastructure.
According to Arkham Intelligence, the entire amount was distributed across three completely new wallets that were apparently created specifically for these transactions and hold no other assets apart from the received $SHIB.
How Coinbase just moved over a trillion $SHIB to empty wallets
On-chain data explains why this multimillion-dollar transfer completely bypassed the spot market and had no impact on exchange order books. Two transactions — involving 348 billion and 242 billion $SHIB — were sent directly from verified Coinbase Prime Custody addresses, a service that exclusively serves large corporate clients.
Distributing assets across new, separate addresses outside the trading platform is a standard technical process for a custodian, required for internal security and liquidity management.
At the same time, the origin of the largest portion — 573 billion $SHIB that left the platform — remains unclear. It was transferred from wallet “0xa59…447”, which has no exchange labels in Arkham’s system. This address may belong either to an unmarked internal Coinbase structure or to a large private holder withdrawing the assets.
Why is this happening right now?
The token is trading close to the psychological support level of $0.00000400, while the weekly RSI of 33–35 indicates that the asset is deeply oversold. A move below this support level would expose $SHIB to the risk of falling toward its lows from previous years.
The fact that 1.16 trillion $SHIB is being separated within the custody system precisely near a local bottom points to the locking in and preservation of positions.
The transfers were deliberately conducted within the exchange’s infrastructure, bypassing spot order books, which made it possible to move a large amount without causing price fluctuations and to keep the price above the critical threshold.
