Since April 10, major whales on Ethereum chain have bought SHIB worth almost $41 million
In April, the second-largest meme cryptocurrency, Shiba Inu, repeatedly came back as the token with the highest USD value for Ethereum whales and was on the list of the 10 most bought coins, according to data. shared by WhaleStats crypto tracker.
Whales scoop up 1.71 trillion Shiba
As reported by U.Today earlier, SHIB was the leading cryptocurrency investment for ETH whales too.
Meanwhile, since April 10, several large whales have acquired nearly two trillion SHIB tokens, or 1.71 trillion.
These were owners of wallets called “Light,” “Bombur” and “BlueWhale0073.” On April 12, “Light” (ranked 1st by WhaleStats) bought SHIB in two chunks: 287,355,928,094 (worth $6.5 million) and 44,551,383,862 SHIB (worth slightly over $1 million).
Whale “Bombur” (ranked 21st), named after one of the dwarfs in JRR Tolkien’s iconic fantasy novel, “The Hobbit. There and Back Again”, bought 79,228,162,513 SHIB on April 13.
On the same day, the owner of the wallet “BlueWhale0073” (5th place whale) began its acquisition of Shiba Inu that consisted of three parts. On April 13, he grabbed an astounding 775,473,150,952 Shiba, paying $20,697,378 for it.
On April 15, he added another 169,975,386,848 SHIB worth $4,361,568 to his wallet, and the next day he bought another big chunk – 223,761,580,609 tokens, which include $5,781,999 .
The total equivalent of the bought SHIB in USD is $40.5 million.
SHIB is the largest token by USD value
At press time, Shiba remains the top crypto holder of the top 100 ETH whales, sitting number one in USD value.
Overall, these whales own 53,538,324,493,656 SHIB, which is worth $1,340,978,839.
