
This whale has bought 100 billion SHIB inspired by the recent success of Shiba Inu
A little over an hour ago, Etherscan saw a transaction that saw a staggering 100 billion of Shiba Inu canine tokens, the second largest meme crypto by market capitalization value.
It was bought on a centralized crypto exchange and moved to a cold wallet. This investor decided to go into Shiba after the recent launch of the much-anticipated Shiba Eternity game.
Whale SHIB . buy $1.1 million in
According to details provided by Etherscan, whales bought $1,108,000 worth a total of 100,000,000,000 Shiba Inu on the Kucoin exchange.
This whale seems to have made the purchase following a massive inflow of new investors into Shiba Inu. According to an earlier U.Today report, following the worldwide launch of the Shiba Eternity game on October 6.
As the game received its global release on both iOS and Android, the app’s number of downloads pushed it into the top 20 list in the App Store. In the Google Play Store, the number of downloads exceeded 10,000 in some regions.
After this, the amount of Shiba Inu holders soared to 2,193,520. This is was an increase by 2,220 users after the launch of the game.
Shiba Eternity Gives 451 Million SHIB as Rewards
In late September, the Shiba Eternity team announced a competition for the community to create trailers for the game, urging video makers to “be creative and bring out the best of the game”.
The trailer of the winners would be shown on both App Store and Google Play. Now, the team of the game announced on their Twitter page that winners would get $5,000 worth of SHIB.
This amount of USD is equal to 451,263,537 Shiba Inu. According to the tweet, the team will contact the winners via Discord to make payment arrangements.