Shiba Inu (SHIB) has grown stronger against its top "memecoin" rival Dogecoin (DOGE) in the last two months, in part due to the token's periodic token burning events and a flurry of project announcements that promises to boost its utility.
Why is the SHIB price rallying?
In detail, SHIB/DOGE gained a little over 40% after bouncing from 0.0001120 on May 12, its lowest level on record.
SHIB/USD four-hour price chart. Source: TradingViewCoin burn is the most logical explanation behind SHIB's recent rally against DOGE.
The process involves sending SHIB tokens to a wallet without a master, i.e., removing them out of circulation permanently against the total one quadrillion supply (half of which were sent to Ethereum's co-founder Vitalik Buterin.
The Shiba Inu network has burned more than 410 trillion SHIB tokens (~$4.5 billion at July 8's price) from its initial supply, according to data tracking portal ShibBurn.com.