A Shiba Inu-focused account has refuted rumors of project lead Shytoshi Kusama being Elon Musk. Calling them “fake,” and “he is not Elon,” he expressed regret that nobody else has been clarifying this issue.
The rumors first surfaced when the Tesla CEO posted a cryptic symbol on Twitter on Feb 8, confusing his over 128 million followers.
Despite the fact that the tweet had only the letter “.” [dot] and had no other information, it caused quite a stir among the members, especially after it was discovered that Shiba Inu’s main developer Kusama also tweeted the same symbol on Twitter in December 2022.
While this may look like a mere coincidence, soon theories emerged that the two persons might be connected in some way or the other.
One such speculation doing the rounds is Musk being the pseudonymous Shytoshi Kusama.
To avoid stoking more rumors, it should be noted that the claims are unlikely to be true given the lack of information concerning Kusama’s real identity.
One of the top Shiba Inu developers and a co-founder of SHIB utilize the fictional name Shytoshi Kusama to hide their identities. This is comparable to the case of the creators of Bitcoin, who employed the pseudonym Satoshi Nakamoto to conceal their true identities.
These speculations, even though existed on Crypto Twitter for a long time, have gathered more steam after the recent confirmation of the launch of Shibarium beta.
Apart from this, the Twitter user SHIBARMY CANADA [Dezaxe] also began to clarify claims related to the PAW project.
Shiba Inu: Paw Is Not A Part Of Shibarium
According to him, it is not a part of Shibarium and has never claimed to be, but it wants to support the Layer 2 solution and build on Shibarium.
That said, the SHIB army is elated over the actions of not one but two high-profile wallet providers ahead of the beta launch of Shibarium, the layer 2 network of Shiba Inu.
As reported by TronWeekly, MetaMask has recently integrated a new feature with gaming giant Unity to boost the web3 gaming sector. Even Kusama himself has retweeted the post.
And another one is Exodus, one of the oldest non-custodial crypto wallets announcing via Twitter that it has “logged” Shiba Inu’s upcoming layer 2 networks with its asset team.