Shiba Inu (SHIB) Delisting Drama: What It Means for Your Cryptocurrency Portfolio

In the fast-paced realm of crypto, SHIB has made waves today – although for something no one would like to happen: a massive delisting from powerhouse top-tiered exchange BitMEX – putting a potentially fatal dent in Shiba Inu’s journey to the moon! This move, aimed at SHIBUSD perpetual contracts because of lack of activity, highlights the delicate setup that surrounds meme coins including the shiba inu cryptocurrency.

 

With SHIB trading at $0.000012 and relatively low volumes, investors might be asking themselves: Are these the last legs of SHIB’s meme-driven rally, or is there an opportunity to buy before the next bull run kicks off? The latter development is important today because it indicates possible liquidity tightness and diminishing institutional participation, which directly affects retail and long-term traders and the general sentiment in the wider crypto market in an environment where regulatory oversight and development in the market are reshaping the viability of altcoins.

Background to Shiba Inu Cryptocurrency

Shiba Inu (SHIB) appeared suddenly in August 2020 as a kind of decentralized experiment in meme coin, developed anonymously by “Ryoshi” and inspired by Dogecoin’s dog-branded playfulness. Advertised as the “Dogecoin Killer”, SHIB rapidly rose in popularity with contagious social media buzz and grassroots campaigns. Key moments in its brief history included being listed on major exchanges such as Binance and Coinbase early in 2021 — an event that caused SHIB’s price to soar from a fraction of a penny to an all-time high (ATH) of $0.00008616 on October 28, 2021, a starling surge that transformed early investors into millionaires. During this time, SHIB's market cap surged past $40 billion due to endorsements by celebrities such as Elon Musk, and in conjunction with ShibaSwap, a decentralized exchange (DEX) that allows for swapping, staking and farming of tokens.

“Historical stats reveal extreme volatility: From all-time low of $0.00000000005637 in November, 2020, SHIB surged an eye-popping 21,560,000 per cent to all-time high.” Yet SHIB sank more than 85% in the post-2021 bear market, with other ecosystem additions such as the Bone ShibaSwap (BONE) token and SHIB burns (token destruction in the aim of reducing supply) trying to keep interest alive. This changing environment is emphasized by events such as BitMEX’s 2024 delisting of SHIBUSD perpetual contracts, where the company removed derivatives pairs from their platform because of low trading volumes. These milestones show how SHIB has evolved from a meme token to a token aiming to have real-world utility, through metaverse-related projects like If in doubt, check out upcoming crypto projects and integrations with DeFi money markets of the coin’s partners.

Shiba Inu Price and Market Stats at a Glance

As of September 2025, Shiba Inu is traded for approximately$0.00001230 USD. It carries a market capitalization of around $7.25 billion and $146 Trading Volume 24 Trading Volume. Its circulating supply is 589 trillion tokens, most of which is from its total supply. Recent price action has seen SHIB ranging in a tight range between $0.0000115 and $0.0000130, creating a descending triangle pattern on charts as falling trading volumes suggest a lackluster conviction from both the bulls and the bears.

SHIB has fallen roughly 2.38% over the last week, and year-to-date gains are about 7.4%—both underperformance relative to broader crypto benchmarks such as Bitcoin. Adoption metrics are a mixed bag The Shiba Inu network has more than 1.3 million wallet addresses, but daily active users on ShibaSwap lost steam, prompting questions about the overall lack of interest in DeFi. The token burns persist, with millions of SHIB being taken out of circulation on a weekly basis, but this has not really driven up the price during the wider market falls. The 200-day EMA at $0.0000139 is a strong resistance level, although technical indicators are presenting a neutral speculation, such as the RSI (46). On the whole, SHIB’s patterns suggest a relatively mature, but still challenged, meme coin that is increasingly susceptible to sharp swings due to its low volume.

What the Ruling Means for Investors, Regulators, and Corporations

These stats clock warnings for Shiba Inu bulls: The BitMEX incident noted less than two percent of veins causing market loss Wejder/Shutterstock The BitMEX delisting, in late 29, which affected SHIBUSD as well as other pairs, including ARBUSD and ORDIUSD, shows a declining institutional and speculative demand across derivatives markets. Derivatives allow for leverage and hedging, and their absence means liquidity as a whole; that is, having less of it overall could mean more spread and price action (volatility) for spot traders. To retail investors that are bag-holding SHIB, this signifies the gradual return of the hype cycle, increasing prospects of more downswings below critical support at $0.0000115 with the absence of a catalyst.

Regulators may interpret this as a signal of the market self-clearing, with low-interest assets dying off through natural attrition, following recent calls for tighter surveillance of meme coins to prevent consumers from falling prey to pump-and-dump scams. It’s very possible that businesses and projects inside SHIB’s ecosystem, including those constructing on Shibarium (SHIB’s layer-2 blockchain), may find fundraising to be more difficult as investor confidence wanes and as a result switch their focus to real use cases –– such as NFT integrations or cross-chain bridges for more sustainable investment. And, in the end, what’s so important about this delisting is the greater market lesson it imparts: in an increasingly crowded altcoin world, tokens such as Shiba Inu need to progress beyond memes if they’re to be more than a mere blip on the radar screen, as DeFi and AI-focused cryptos continue to take up all the air in the room.

What is Shiba Inu’s Price Prediction for the Future?

Moving forward, 2025 and beyond Shiba Inu price predictions differ but are generally positive amongst experts who base them on technical analysis and ecosystem development. Prices for year-end 2025 are averaged to reach $0.0000399, with an implied 84 percent upside, on potential bull market rallies and SHIB burns cutting down supply, the analysts said. More bullish predictions, such as those of TradingView and CryptoELITEs, predict SHIB will reach $0.00023 or more -- under favorable circumstances, such as a surge driven by a Bitcoin halving or retail interest return.

Key Takeaways 

Experts provide insights on key pillars: AI models forecast pathways to $0.001-resistance via monstrous burns, Shibarium uptake, and metaverse extension, despite such being aggressive relative to present supply. Projections pertain to $0.000070- $0.000321 by 2030, and they are based on DeFi growth and partnerships (When the COVID-19 pandemic dawned in Italy, Gas was dead.) A move below this level can see the price of REN falling to its all-time low of $0.000008 but not before getting support at $0.01. In the end, it will be community health and macro trends that determine SHIB's fate, making it a high-risk, high-reward crypto. 

 

This article is contributed by an external writer: Caleb Obed. 
 

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