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- The top 10 holders of the coin own 70% of the meme token's total supply, according to CoinMarketCap.
- One address owns a whopping 41.03%.
- Based on the coin's price Thursday, that amount is worth $27.1 billion.
Shiba inu investors have been riding high on the meme token's eye-popping rally in recent days, but the newly generated wealth is not very evenly distributed.
The 10 largest holders of the coin own 71% of the meme token's total supply, according to data from CoinMarketCap .
One address - out of the 837,869 total addresses and 14,645 active addresses - owns a whopping 41.03%. The second-biggest owner holds just 7.02%.
This means if there are 549,095,000,000,000 in circulation, the top shiba inu whale holds 395,348,400,000,000.
And based on the coin's price as of publication, that translates to a value of $27.1 billion.
Holders Statistics by CoinMarketCap
| Total Addresses | 837,869 |
| Active Addresses (24 hours) | 14,645 |
| Top 10 holders | 71.9% |
| Top 20 holders | 75.97% |
| Top 50 holders | 78.91% |
| Top 100 holders | 80.5% |
The team behind shiba inu has locked 50% of the total token supply on Uniswap, according to its website .
The remaining 50% was gifted to ethereum cofounder Vitalik Buterin who donated the majority of it - about $1 billion at that time - to a crypto-based COVID-19 relief fund for India. He then "burned" the rest, permanently taking it out of circulation.
Shiba inu is an ethereum-based alternative to dogecoin. It was founded in August 2020 by someone going by the name Ryoshi whose goal was to move away from "rigid social structures and traditional mindsets," according to the coin's 28-page white paper, dubbed a "woof paper."
Its unlikely rise has catapulted the meme-inspired cryptocurrency to a total market valuation of nearly $36 billion, becoming the 10th most valuable cryptocurrency as of Thursday.
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