Shibarium Crosses 500 Mln Transaction Milestone, SHIB Price Reacts

Shibarium, the Ethereum-based Layer-2 scaling solution backed by the Shiba Inu (SHIB) ecosystem has recorded a huge mainnet milestone. According to data from Shibarium scan, the total transactions processed on the platform has crossed the 500 million milestone. As of writing, the total transaction is pegged at 500,623,178.

Shibarium and the Obvious Growth Catalyst

The Shiba Inu-backed layer-2 scaling solution launched in August 2023. For a protocol with a largely rocky start, the new milestone has sparked series of debates on X. Shibarium got a major boost less than a month ago when Shiboshi-linked NFT update triggered enhanced ecosystem adoption.

With the NFT bridge feature on the mainnet, transaction count jumped to millions per day from a few thousands. At the time of writing, the daily transaction count comes in at 4.69 million. Despite this figure, the protocol records at least 2,227 transctions in hours. The new milestone has triggered a comment from Kaal Dhairya, one of the ecosystem’s lead developers.

PAW-some news! 🐾 Shibarium just fetched 500M transactions—proof of pack is unstoppable! 🚀 Here’s to more tail-wagging milestones ahead. #ShibArmy #Shibarium https://t.co/1gBzGyY85E

— Kaal (@kaaldhairya) November 12, 2024

Per the Shibariumscan data, the protocol now have a total block of 7,849,660 with wallet adresses coming in at 1,889,496. With the consistent growth, the protocol hopes to match with some of its peers like Base and Optimism soon.

Shiba Inu Reacts, Will This Boost Market Value?

The memecoin has reacted to the update within the ecosystem as it underscore the relative growth overall. At the time of writing, SHIB price was changing hands for $0.0000264, down by 3.39% in 24 hours. Within this period, the token has traded within a low price of $0.00002457 and a high of $0.0000303.

While the token ought to print a rally, SHIB has recorded an extreme growth trend amid the boom in the price of Bitcoin. In the past week, the token has retained a more than 48% rally overall. With the token’s price largely linked to the broader market trend, it’s recovery might come faster than projected.

Meanwhile, lead developer Shytoshi Kusama has set his sight on his SH.I.B proposal to create the Silicon Valley destination for crypto. He recently pitched this idea to Elon Musk in a bid to get the Donald Trump administration to consider the prospects.