Ethereum co-creator Vitalik Buterin dropped a major appreciation for the second largest meme coin, Shiba Inu (SHIB). Buterin’s latest comment seems like to helping SHIB to gain momentum after trailing for a long period of time.
Vitalik Buterin discloses Shiba Inu donation scenario
A report revealed that the Future of Life had received an unreported donation of worth over $665 million from Vitalik Buterin. It is mentioned that around May 2021, the foundation got a gift of Shiba Inu coins. This detail was disclosed in an EU transparency filing submitted in 2023. However, FLI’s US tax filings showed that it had nearly $2.4 million at the beginning of 2021.
An X (formerly Twitter) user asked Buterin a query regarding this donated fund. He stated that there is confusion about the FLI donation as it was under the impression that the fund wasn’t worth nearly $600 million.
Buterin replied to the query and stated that it’s the same situation as with Crypto relief funds. Ethereum co-creator clarified that he quickly sent a pile of Shiba Inu coins thinking that it would surely drop by 100x in a few days. This made him to act fast and move.
He revealed that at that time he expected the fund would be able to cash out at most like $10 million to $25 million. However, Buterin highlighted that Shiba Inu massively outperformed all of his expectations.
SHIB price up by 234% in 60 days
Shiba Inu trailing for a long time jumped by more than 7% in the last 24 hours over Buterin’s latest praise. The surge comes in when the global crypto market printed red indexes. The cumulative crypto market cap is down by around 1.5% over the past day to stand at around $2.64 trillion.
The second biggest meme crypto has recorded a gain of 234% in the last 60 days. However, it is still less of a gain compared to other meme coins like Pepe and dogwifhat (WIF) which had recorded a surge of 640% and 930%, respectively.
Shiba Inu is trading at an average price of $0.00003, at the press time. However, it is still down by 66% from its all time high of $0.000088 recorded on October 28, 2021. Its 24 hour trading volume is up by 41% to stand at $2.25 billion. SHIB is still holding a market cap of $17.55 billion. It is now looking to get over Dogecoin to become the largest meme crypto.
