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Shiba Inu Burn Rate Surges 4100% as Whale Activity Intensifies

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  • Shiba Inu burns 21.7 million tokens, boosting burn rate by 4,100% in just 24 hours.
  • SHIB price plunges 11% amid $711 million market-wide crypto liquidation.
  • Whale transactions in SHIB soar by 2,004%, moving $751 million worth in a day.

Shiba Inu (SHIB) has experienced a surge in the token burn rate, which increased by 4,100% in the last 24 hours. 21,709,094 SHIB tokens were burned from circulation in this period. This surge was driven by one large transaction, in which 21,088,148 SHIB was burned. The rising burn rate in the SHIBA INU community is expected to decrease the overall token supply, enhancing the community’s optimism about the token’s long-term value.

The burn rate impressively increased. However, the Shiba Inu price fell by almost 11% during the same period and within the same day. This price decrease was accompanied by market sell-offs that led to more than $700 million in cryptocurrency liquidations. Macroeconomic factors have negatively impacted digital assets like Shiba Inu, leading to market volatility and investor caution, decreasing SHIB’s price to $0.00002168.

Increase in Whale Activity for SHIB

Shiba Inu has seen a massive uptick in large transactions, which rose by over 2,004% within the last 24 hours. This surge indicates that the activities of wallet whales or investors in SHIB have been heightened. Large transactions of over $100,000 SHIB have increased, indicating that these large holders are accumulating or redistributing their assets.

Altogether, large transactions total 34.42 trillion SHIB, approximately $751.22 million. Whales’ activity indicates that investors are preparing for or responding to volatile market tendencies. Whales use these conditions to improve their positions, explaining such large fluctuations in current market conditions.

Shiba Inu’s Price Struggles Amid Market Sell-Off

The recent surge in SHIB burning rate and high transaction value has emerged during unpredictable market conditions with volatile trends. As for the general crypto market, significant selling pressure has been observed, impacting the prices of most cryptocurrencies. Like many other digital currencies, Shiba Inu suffered from this decline by over 10% within 24 hours. Even if the burn rate is high, then a decrease in the price reveals the unpredictable correlation between token supply and market sentiment.

Nevertheless, although the burn rate might be promising enough, it cannot stabilize the downward trend of SHIB’s price in the short term. Still, the extraordinary level of whale activity might indicate that some investors are choosing to engage in certain stocks and securities to prepare for a capitalization outcome in the future.

Solana Whale Buys $18 Million in Memecoins Amid Market Downturn

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  • Whale acquired $18.57M worth of memecoins on Solana, including $WIF, $POPCAT, $FWOG, and $MICHI.
  • Solana memecoin market sees 11.15% drop while whale accumulates 7.25M $WIF tokens.
  • Whale consolidates $18M memecoins into wallet D2Noa, impacting liquidity and volatility.

On the Solana blockchain, a large holder with a significant volume of activities has been identified accumulating substantial amounts of various memecoins. Over the 24 hours, the whale with the identification of “DWhUa” purchased $18.57 million worth of memecoins, including the massive purchases of $WIF, $POPCAT, $FWOG, and $MICHI tokens. These tokens were purchased on Binance and other decentralized exchanges (DEXs) and then transferred to a new wallet named “D2Noa.”

Through its acquisitions, whale acquired 7.249 million $WIF tokens valued at approximately $13.3 million, 5.77 million $POPCAT tokens at roughly $3.82 million, 4.57 million $FWOG tokens at $980,000, and 3.9 million $MICHI tokens at $470,000. This purchase has spurred concern and discourse considering the impact of this notable purchasing power on memecoin prices and possible effects on memecoin prices.

Impact of Whale Accumulation on Solana Memecoins

The influx of such a big amount of capital into the Solana-based memecoin market can lead to large swings in value. With the whales holding a large portion of these tokens, the reduced supply risk is posed, affecting the other traders’ ability to make their trades without triggering a market shift. The $WIF token, for example, may experience significant volatility depending on the activity of these holdings in a single wallet.

Some memecoins are known for their high fluctuations, and such big purchases can increase these variables even more. Further, reactions from other market participants could imitate the whale’s action, while others are selling off the stocks to avoid price fluctuations. The ongoing developments will affect the trading activity and the overall quantity of memecoins in circulation, which traders should observe.

Memecoin Market Faces Downturn Amid Whale Activity

The overall market, including memecoins, has been declining, with the major cryptocurrencies showing a daily decline of 6.56%. Due to this, the memecoin segment’s total market capitalization has decreased by 11.15%. However, the whale activity indicates a certain level of confidence in the long-term prospects of these tokens, which some analysts suggest is the result of long-term accumulation through strategic buying in anticipation of a market rebound.

The memecoins involved have been experiencing daily losses, but the performance of some of them in the past week is as follows. For instance, $WIF has shown a daily decline of 9.96% while it has recovered 3.87% over the week. Likewise, $POPCAT has dropped by 16.15% in 24 hours, but the cryptocurrency remains down by only 6.84% during the week. The following movement shows that the memecoin market remains volatile, which could pose opportunities or risks for traders.

Strategic Positioning or Market Manipulation?

The timing of the whales during a bear trend could suggest these tokens are being bought at a lower price to hold them until the market goes up. Most seasoned investors wait for dips to establish regular holdings and believe it will rebound. However, the general and massive buying of tokens and the significant ownership interest raise issues of market manipulation, where a whale may affect the prices of the tokens.

Ripple Integrates Chainlink to Boost RLUSD Stablecoin Adoption in DeFi

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  • Ripple integrates Chainlink for RLUSD pricing data on Ethereum to boost DeFi adoption.
  • Chainlink feeds enable secure and tamper-proof RLUSD pricing for DeFi applications.
  • RLUSD adoption grows as Ripple brings trusted on-chain data with Chainlink integration.

Ripple is adopting Chainlink standard  to enhance the functionality of Ripple USD (RLUSD) stablecoin onchain. The cooperation aims to provide reliable and secure pricing data to enhance the use of RLUSD across various DeFi applications.

Ripple has introduced Chainlink Price Feeds, providing secure and accurate source of RLUSD pricing data on Ethereum mainnet. This enables DeFi developers to integrate applications like trading and lending. Ripple aims to use Chainlink’s secure network to increase the functionality and usage of RLUSD.

RLUSD Fair Pricing with Chainlink Price Feeds

Incorporating Chainlink’s Price Feeds helps Ripple guarantee reliable, tamper-resistant pricing data for RLUSD. According to the company, these price feeds are currently available on the Ethereum mainnet to enable developers to incorporate RLUSD in dApps for trading, lending, and other financial functions.

The pricing infrastructure uses data from hundreds of exchanges and applies volume-weighted averages to eliminate manipulation and outliers. This gives stability and confidence to institutions and retail users of RLUSD in DeFi markets. The Ripple team stressed the efficiency of providing highly accurate and decentralized price data to mitigate risks and maintain trust in the stablecoin functionality.

Chainlink Price Feeds offers decentralization at the data source, Oracle nodes, and networks. This architecture minimizes the possibility of a shutdown or change, which gives it institutional-grade applications.

RLUSD’s Expanding Role in DeFi

RLUSD is a USD-pegged stablecoin launched in December 2024, operating on the XRP Ledger (XRPL) and Ethereum blockchain. Ripple designed RLUSD to maintain compliance and enterprises while being compatible with decentralized applications. As per CoinGecko, RLUSD has a market capitalization of $72 million and aims to bridge the gap between traditional and decentralized finance.

Further, according to Jack McDonald, Ripple’s Senior Vice President of Stablecoin, adopting Chainlink’s oracle ensures integrity and credibility. He explained that this collaboration empowers RLUSD to expand across several decentralized ecosystems to facilitate secure, low-cost cross-border payments and other functionalities.

With Chainlink’s infrastructure, Ripple brings more adoption and utility to RLUSD for financial applications that demand real-time and verifiable price data. As demand increases, it is positioned to continue serving the need for tokenized assets in global finance.

Broader Implications for Institutional Adoption

The partnership with Chainlink corresponds with the rising institutional adoption of assets such as stablecoins. According to Johann Eid, Chief Business Officer at Chainlink Labs, stable data on-chain will help catalyze the further development of stablecoin.

Ripple’s move indicates that it wants to expand the RLUSD in DeFi and institutional markets. It is creating the necessary tools and framework to support safe and efficient financial operations.

Crypto Inflows Hit Record $44 Billion as 2025 Starts Strong

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  • Bitcoin led 2024 crypto inflows with $38B, marking a 320% increase from 2021.
  • Ethereum’s late 2024 surge brought $4.8B in inflows, 60x more than in 2023.
  • U.S. Bitcoin spot ETFs contributed $44.4B in inflows, while Canada saw $707M outflows.

According to Coinshares report, the year 2024 saw spectacular growth in investments in cryptocurrencies. Their circulation worldwide increased by $44.2 billion, a fourfold performance over 2021. This was mainly driven by the historical launch of spot-based Bitcoin Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs) in the United States, which account for the greater part of such inflows. However, inflows slowed in the last quarter of 2024. The first three days of 2025 recorded an inflow of US$585 million.

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Bitcoin received $38 billion, which accounted for 29% of the total market AuM. At the same time, Ethereum saw a recovery towards the end of the year, making it record annual fund inflows of $4.8 billion, 26% of its AUM. This represented a 2.4-times increase from the previous year and a 60-times rise from 2023. Aside from Ethereum, other cryptocurrencies reported robust participation with $813 million inflows but represented only 18% of the AuM.

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Shifting Global Investment Trends and Regional Market Dynamics

While the United States led with significant buying activity, other nations experienced a shift in their investment patterns. Canada became the biggest outflow for crypto ETPs, with sales amounting to $707 million. Similarly, Sweden and German investors also suffered large outflows of $682m and $328m, respectively. This movement can be viewed as a part of a general trend featuring shift of funds towards U.S.-based products, probably due to the favorable legal conditions and new spot ETFs.

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On the other hand, the investment inflows reported by Switzerland and Brazil were $630 million and $234 million, respectively, which indicates that there is a possibility of regional differences with regard to investor culinary and legal environment. These figures illustrate the continuous transformation of the global crypto market and changing tactics of investors aiming to obtain an adequate profit with minimal risks based on jurisdictions of different countries.

Outlook for 2025: Continued Growth Expected

Analysts at Galaxy Digital propose that there could be significant growth for U.S. Bitcoin spot ETPs, explaining that they could see $250bn in AuM in 2025. This optimism is justified by the strong performance of these products since their inception and the increasing recognition of digital currencies as a viable financial asset.

The possibility to have new regulations or loose regulations as expected with the Trump administration policies can also positively affect adoption of cryptocurrencies. Further, potential changes like giving the ability to stake their Ether spot ETPs could further bring new dynamics into the market for both institutional nd retail participants.