Shiba Inu () has cemented its status as the largest altcoin holding among the 500 biggest whales on the Ethereum () network, according to the blockchain tracking service WhaleStats.
Over $606.3 million in SHIB, representing about 54 trillion tokens at current prices, are sitting in the deep-pocketed investor’s wallets.
According to WhaleStats, the whales SHIB holdings outweigh their other altcoin positions by a vast margin.
Ethereum scaling solution Polygon (), the second biggest altcoin holding among the whales, currently trails SHIB by nearly $440 million.
“The top 500 ETH whales are hodling:
$606,354,054 SHIB
$166,807,633 MATIC
$155,922,150 BEST
$146,459,691 LINK
$131,748,690 CHSB
$95,129,958 UNI
$70,172,580 LOCUS
$68,858,117 MANA”
A number of Ethereum whales have been spotted rapidly accumulating Shiba Inu over the last several months as the Dogecoin rival’s ecosystem gears up for the launch of Shibarium, a layer-2 scaling project meant to make the network more efficient.
Late last year, a that has yet to be identified began rapidly accumulating SHIB, and is now the single largest unknown address holding SHIB.
And last week, the wallet tracking platform Etherscan identified a large crypto whale who received 118,058,494,947 SHIB worth $1.34 million in one day.
SHIB had an explosive start to the year, rising from $0.00000814 on January 1st to a high of $0.00001549 on February 4th – representing a 90% increase.
It has since retraced and at time of writing, SHIB is trading at $0.00001117.
