Techub News said some members of the Shiba Inu community are猜测 that Shytoshi Kusama and Kaal Dhairya may announce a return to X later this month. Longtime community member Vet Kusama urged the crypto community to "stay tuned" but did not disclose what the announcement would be. Kusama has been silent on X for more than three months since May 13, while Dhairya has also kept a low profile since the start of the year. No official announcement has been confirmed yet. SHIB rose 8.61% over the past 24 hours and gained 18.04% for the week, according to U.Today.

Shiba Inu (SHIB) climbed about 36% on Sunday to $0.0000057, adding roughly $1 billion in market value and bringing its total market capitalization to about $3.4 billion, according to BlockBeats. The token’s 24-hour trading volume approached $380 million, with activity rising to the highest level seen in months. No clear fundamental catalyst was identified behind the move. Shibarium did not release any related announcement, and other dog-themed tokens lagged well behind SHIB during the same period. DOGE rose about 6%, while smaller peers posted gains of up to around 10%, pointing to flows concentrated in SHIB rather than a broad rally across the meme coin sector. Trading data showed a notable concentration of buying from South Korea. On Upbit, the SHIB/KRW pair recorded about $62 million in turnover, making it the largest single market globally and accounting for more than 10% of worldwide volume. The pair also traded at a slight premium to dollar-denominated venues such as Binance. Liquidations followed the move higher, with about 2,300 traders cleared out across SHIB and 1000SHIB positions for roughly $6 million, most of it from shorts.

Tiger Research argues that crypto is no longer being carried by a single market-wide story in the way it was during DeFi, NFT/GameFi, Layer 1 and Layer 2 competition, or restaking cycles. In its latest report, the firm says attention and liquidity are shifting toward sectors that can show real user demand, durable activity, and measurable revenue rather than relying on token-driven momentum alone. The report points to five areas that best reflect that transition in the first half of 2026: stablecoins, DeFi, real-world assets, prediction markets, and meme tokens. Stablecoins are expanding from volatility shields into cross-border settlement rails. DeFi protocols are increasingly serving institutional borrowing, trading, and risk-management needs. RWA projects are moving from broad tokenization narratives toward efficiency and operational utility, with tokenized treasuries and stocks drawing heavier participation from established financial firms. Tiger Research also says prediction markets stand out because their growth is showing up in trading volume and revenue rather than token market caps, while meme tokens still function as a fast way to gather early users and liquidity even without clear long-term utility. Its broader conclusion is that projects able to survive this market are the ones with repeat usage, retained capital, and sustainable income. In that framework, token prices may attract early attention, but product-market fit determines who lasts.

CoinDesk’s July 24 Daybook excerpt argues that the maturing crypto market is leaving less room for the memecoin trade that dominated parts of the 2021 cycle. The combined market capitalization of dogecoin and shiba inu, still the two largest memecoins by value, has dropped to $13.27 billion, a three-year low, after slipping about 2% this month even as bitcoin has climbed 10%. The comparison looks even starker against bitcoin’s $1.30 trillion market capitalization. DOGE and SHIB together now equal just 1.02% of bitcoin’s market value, the lowest ratio on record. CoinDesk contrasts that with 2021, when the pair reached 7% of bitcoin’s market cap at the height of memecoin enthusiasm. The report links the shift to a broader change in how capital moves through crypto. It says the launch of U.S. spot bitcoin ETFs in 2024 accelerated institutional participation, drawing in investors far more interested in bitcoin as a macro asset than in meme tokens. At the same time, capital has also been pulled toward other sectors tied more closely to traditional finance, including real-world assets. CoinDesk adds that options positioning still reflects a constructive near-term outlook for BTC, with traders looking for a move to at least $72,000.

Shiba Inu is struggling at its 100-day EMA, with recent gains driven more by short-covering than steady demand. Volume and RSI signals suggest the market is still waiting for a decisive move.

ShibaSwap is the Shiba Inu ecosystem’s decentralized exchange on Ethereum, built around SHIB, BONE, and LEASH with token swaps, liquidity pools, staking, governance, and NFT features.

Elon Musk’s return to the DogeFather image drew fresh attention across crypto circles, but Dogecoin still slipped to $0.09315, with trading data showing steady activity rather than strong buying.

Shiba Inu futures flow swung 129% into net outflows in a day, signaling leverage reduction. With spot price still below key moving averages and volatility tightening, SHIB looks more range-bound in the near term.