As SHIB deposits overwhelm Binance, Shiba Inu hits another exchange

After an explosive 966% surge in the same time frame, which sent the token to 18th in the market cap rankings, Shiba Inu (SHIB) was listed on three different cryptocurrency exchanges in the past 48 hours

Shiba’s instant addition to Binance on May 10 surprised onlookers, many of whom expected a more in-depth listing process by the world’s largest crypto exchange and which it has been described as “Dogecoin Killer”,

The decision of Binance to list the token immediately is premised on the fact that, that 50% of the SHIB token supply is in the hands of one individual

As a means to put the tokens out of circulation, The Shiba team purposely sent 50% of the 1 quadrillion token supply to Ethereum co-creator Vitalik Buterin. Also to provide liquidity, the other 50% was apparently sent to the Uniswap app to.

Also, a decentralized token have been claimed to have been created by the creators and of which its fate will be decided by the market.

Binance founder and CEO Changpeng Zhao spoke out on the issue of Shiba Inu on Monday, telling his Twitter audience that the exchange was simply following user demand. Zhao said demand to trade SHIB was so high that Binance ran out of deposit addresses for the Ethereum based token:

“Some have voiced concerns about $SHIB listing. We follow users. There is a large number of users demanding it, to the point where we ran out of ETH deposit addresses due to SHIB today. Never happened before for any other ERC20 coin.”

“Not endorsing it. Super high risk. NFA,” he added.

Shiba Inu’s recent emergence came fresh on the back of the rise of Dogecoin (DOGE). Like Dogecoin, Shiba Inu is emblazoned with a variation of the Shiba Inu dog meme. Also like Dogecoin, Shiba awakened from months of inactivity to surge to what was an all-time high on April 20 (i.e. 4/20 day), the same day Dogecoin reached a then all-time high of $0.420.

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