Two major whales continue to acquire massive amounts of Shiba Inu as token regained 6% after a recent decline
Two big Ethereum chain investors have gobbled up nearly 244 billion Shiba Inu, according to data provided by WhaleStats. For them, these were not the first SHIB purchases in the past nine days.
Whales add 243.6 billion SHIB
WhaleStats crypto tracker has shared that over the past 20 hours, whales titled “Bombur” and “BlueWhale0073” made two purchases of Shiba. “Bombur” grabbed 50,520,317,707 SHIB tokens, while “BlueWhale0073” added an astounding 193,419,098,244 SHIB to his crypto riches.
These chunks of the second largest canine cryptocurrency cost investors $1,241,789 and $4,821,938.
As reported by U.Today, since April 10, owners of the “Bombur” and “BlueWhale0073” wallets made several massive acquisitions of SHIB tokens. “Bombur” bought 79,228,162,513 SHIB on April 13.
The second whale among those mentioned above, “BlueWhale0073”, bought three pieces of Shiba Inu of staggering size each. In total, they represent 1.169 trillion tokens. These whales are ranked #20 and #5 on the WhaleStats scale.
In the meantime, WhaleStats website shows that Shiba Inu remains the biggest crypto asset by US dollar value held by Ethereum whales.
Overall, the top 100 ETH investors hold $1,337,783,668 worth of SHIB; this is the equivalent of 53,393,592,638,753, or 15.14% of their compound portfolio.
Compared to April 18, the SHIB holdings of the top ETH whales have shrunk a little.
SHIB regains 6%
On April 18, after Bitcoin’s brief dip below the $39,000 level, Shiba Inu printed a large hourly red candle, with a similar set-up the day before.
However, by April 19, the second biggest canine coin recovered by over 6%, rising from $0.00002388 to the $0.00002549 zone.
At press time, however, SHIB is changing hands at $0.00002502 on Binance’s site.
