Shiba Inu

No company issues SHIB. The founder 'Ryoshi' and the long-time project lead 'Shytoshi Kusama' are pseudonymous. Ecosystem developer Kaal Dhairya spoke for the team after the September 2025 Shibarium bridge attack. The team built Shibarium, a proof-of-stake Ethereum layer 2 (chain ID 109) whose first block dates from 5 August 2023; its gas token is BONE, not SHIB. In September 2025 an attacker took control of 10 of the 12 bridge validator signing keys. Accountability for development rests with people whose identities are not public.

• Shibarium bridge suffers 'sophisticated' flash loan attack, with $2.4 million drained (The Block)
• Shibarium: Quickstart (Shib docs)

No US spot ETF dedicated to SHIB was found. T. Rowe Price's amended S-1 of 16 March 2026 for its actively managed Price Active Crypto ETF lists SHIB among the assets the fund may hold, five to fifteen at a time. SHIB is number 20 on the National Bank of Kazakhstan's list of authorised unsecured digital assets, published 30 April 2026. Etherscan counted about 1.69 million holder addresses on Ethereum. Data on concentration among top holders is insufficient.

• T. Rowe Price is ready to put dogecoin (DOGE) and shiba inu (SHIB) in its new crypto ETF (CoinDesk)
• List of authorized unsecured digital assets (National Bank of Kazakhstan)

The SHIB contract reports a total supply of about 999.98 trillion and has no mint function, so supply cannot grow. About 410.49 trillion SHIB sit in burn addresses, leaving about 589.5 trillion outside them. Most of this came from Vitalik Buterin, who sent 90% of his SHIB to a dead address in May 2021. Ongoing burns are negligible: about 377 million SHIB in the 30 days to 26 September 2026. SHIB pays holders nothing; locking it in Bury 2.0 gives voting power only.

• Etherscan: SHIBA INU (SHIB) token page
• Vitalik Buterin Burns $6B in SHIB Tokens, Says He Doesn't Want the Power (CoinDesk)
• Bury 2.0: Getting started (Shib docs)

On 27 September 2026 DefiLlama showed total value locked of about $56,000 on Shibarium and about $6.6 million in ShibaSwap, almost all on Ethereum, with ShibaSwap volume of about $11.5 million over 30 days. Trading is mostly derivatives: perpetual futures were about 86% of SHIB/USDT volume on Binance, Bybit and OKX in a 24-hour snapshot. The Shibarium bridge was drained in September 2025 after an attacker controlled 10 of its 12 validator keys.

• DefiLlama API: chains (Shibarium)
• DefiLlama API: ShibaSwap protocol
• Binance Futures API: 1000SHIBUSDT 24h ticker