Shiba Inu Enters Top 10 and Flips Dogecoin
The market capitalization of shiba inu (SHIB), the Ethereum-based token promoted as “the dogecoin killer,” has surpassed the capitalization of dogecoin (DOGE), making SHIB the 9th largest cryptoasset by market capitalization.
After a close race, SHIB increased its dominance over DOGE, reaching a market capitalization of USD 33.43bn. Meanwhile, DOGE left the top 10 club with a market capitalization of USD 31.9bn.
At 16:46 UTC, SHIB trades at USD 0.00006825 and is up by 44% in a day and 143 in a week. The price exploded by 80787246% in a year, per Coingecko data. At the same time, DOGE trades at USD 0.242175 and is down by 9% in a day and 2% in a week. It jumped by 8988% in a year.
SHIB price chart:
Discussing the action in the two meme coins on Twitter, the crypto community appeared to agree that it is just a matter of time before a flippening of DOGE by SHIB happens.
“How dogecoin became the boomer memecoin” Joe Weisenthal, co-host of the Bloomberg’s Odd Lots podcast, started off one of his tweets by saying, explaining that unlike DOGE, SHIB actually has “a fast moving development roadmap, its own decentralized exchange, NFTs, and advanced smart contracting capabilities.”
Also sharing his thoughts on the potential flippening was Arcane Crypto’s Eric Wall, who made the case for why “SHIB is better than DOGE” in a detailed Twitter thread, before finally admitting “This is a comedy thread people.”
If you buy SHIB, you buy:
— Eric Wall | BIP-420😺 (@ercwl) October 27, 2021
– fixed-supply coin
– something Elon doesn’t have as much power over
– something you can stake and earn yields on in the Ethereum DeFi ecosystem and on its own purpose-built DEXes like ShibaSwap
– using it on in L2s will prolly get you tons of airdrops
Lastly, Erik Voorhees, CEO of the open-source crypto platform ShapeShift, joked “A world in which SHIB flips DOGE is not a world in which I wish to live.”
Other reactions:
It is none other than Shiba Inu 🐕 $SHIB 😮😧🤯
— Dan (@dadagrassman) October 27, 2021
US$ 160mm over 7D
US$ 226mm over 3D
67 Addresses (2/2)#SHIB #SHIBARMY #shibainu #nansen pic.twitter.com/yZwUWzIZcI
DOGE and SHIB are worth more than all of DeFi
— sassal.eth/acc 🦇🔊 (@sassal0x) October 27, 2021
Gn
Looks like $SHIB doesn't care, ffs from where does the money come from? Is it really retail noobs pumping it?
— Blackbeard (@blackbeardXBT) October 27, 2021
I mean, I enjoy the pump but I would be scared af to buy here tbh. pic.twitter.com/q4HdlRyMNN
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(Updated at 16:49 UTC with the latest market data).