Shiba Inu (SHIB) has one of the most passionate and active communities in crypto. From viral memes to high-profile exchange listings, SHIB has proven it’s more than just a fleeting trend. But there’s one narrative that continues to circulate across forums and social media, and it’s time to address it directly: SHIB will never reach $0.01.
As nice as that sounds, it’s simply not realistic. Not now. Not within the next five years. Here’s the math behind why SHIB hitting one cent is nearly impossible under current conditions.
What Would SHIB at $0.01 Actually Mean?
Let’s start with the basics. SHIB is currently priced at $0.0000122, with a market cap of $7.19 billion and a circulating supply of around 589 trillion tokens.
If SHIB were to reach $0.01, that would mean:
$0.01 × 589,000,000,000,000 = $5.89 trillion market cap
Let that sink in. That’s five times the size of Bitcoin’s current market cap. It would make SHIB the most valuable asset in all of crypto – and possibly the most valuable publicly traded asset in history. For comparison, the entire crypto market today is worth around $3.37 trillion.
In other words, for SHIB to reach $0.01, it would need to account for more than 175% of the entire crypto market as it exists right now. That’s not just unlikely – it’s mathematically and economically absurd.
Even if we imagine a booming future where the total crypto market reaches $10 trillion, SHIB at $0.01 would still need to dominate nearly 60% of the entire crypto space to justify that price.
That means SHIB would need to overtake Bitcoin, Ethereum, every stablecoin, every Layer 1, every tokenized real-world asset, and every utility-based crypto in existence – combined. It’s just not a realistic expectation, even under the most optimistic conditions.
Here’s an example of an unrealistic prediction from SHIB’s community:
$SHIB TO ONE CENT 🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀
Developer Anticipated to Reveal Major Plans
Analyst Says Shiba Inu Lead Dev Has Enough ACEs to Send SHIB to $0.01 – Times Tabloid https://t.co/GJYwkzsGtV
— $SHIB Bezos $AMC $NIO $BKKT $LCID (@BezosCrypto) June 15, 2025
Why This Won’t Happen in the Next 5 Years
Some point to SHIB’s ongoing token burns and say they’ll reduce supply over time, making higher prices possible. While SHIB does have burn mechanics in place, they’ve been slow, inconsistent, and not nearly aggressive enough to change the supply-demand dynamics on the scale required.
Burning a few billion tokens sounds great on social media, but when the supply is 589 trillion, it barely moves the needle. To make $0.01 a realistic target, SHIB would need to eliminate over 99.9% of its total supply – and that isn’t happening anytime soon.
Even if adoption grows, and even if more utility is built through Shibarium and other developments, those factors alone won’t justify a $5.89 trillion valuation. Not in five years. Not even in ten.
Read also: Here’s the Shiba Inu ($SHIB) Price If Ethereum Breaks $4k In 2025
A Passionate Community With Unrealistic Price Goals
Let’s be clear – SHIB has one of the strongest and most loyal communities in crypto. That’s its greatest asset. The project has gone further than most meme coins ever will, launching its own L2 (Shibarium), expanding the ecosystem, and consistently trending online.
But that community also needs a reality check. Hope is good. Blind belief is not. Price predictions like $0.01 may sound fun, but they’re misleading. They ignore basic math, economic logic, and the realities of market structure.
Instead of chasing impossible price targets, the community would be better off focusing on real progress – growing adoption, expanding use cases, improving tokenomics, and making the SHIB ecosystem more than just hype.
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