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Half-Trillion Shiba Inu (SHIB) Withdrawal Stuns Major US Exchange Coinbase: What's Going On?

source-logo  u.today 30 December 2025 16:03, UTC
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As revealed by Arkham's data, a total of 485,106,817,819 $SHIB was transferred from a Coinbase Prime hot wallet to one untagged address over just two days. This was not a single, big-deal transaction, as the accumulation was broken into three smaller parts. Once the transfers were done, the receiving wallet was left holding 485.1 billion $SHIB as its main asset, with a valuation just above $3.47 million.

There are only a few realistic options here. One is that the owner plans to keep Shiba Inu ($SHIB) off-exchange, which would remove the immediate sell-side supply from Coinbase and let them bet on later repricing. Another is that the wallet acts as an operational hub, a pause before distribution to other venues, liquidity routes or structured positions.

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The withdrawal happened during a period when $SHIB was trading closer to weekly lows around the $0.0000072 zone, rather than during a price spike. That is basically the line where dips get bought by optimists and sold into by tired holders, so seeing coins pulled off-exchange here reads like someone accepting short-term heat for a longer hold.

Shiba Inu ($SHIB) price is key

Price-wise, if $SHIB holds above the $0.0000071 to $0.0000072 zone, the next upside targets will be $0.0000074 first and then the $0.0000078 area, mostly because that is where recent weekly rejection tends to cluster.

Should $SHIB lose that band and print lower weekly closes, the market will start hunting for the next demand pocket around $0.0000068.

The next phase will be visible soon. If the wallet sits idle, the market story will start to shift toward accumulation and a longer-term strategy. If the $SHIB starts moving in pieces again, the story will switch to staging and execution. Either way, the numbers speak for themselves.

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