Mazrael Says SHIB's Shibarium Account Muted on Purpose for 118 Days

Shibarium Account Silent Since July 13

The official Shibarium account on X, @shibariumnet, has now gone 118 days without a single post. Its last message went out on July 13, 2026, and the long silence around the main communication channel of the Shiba Inu ecosystem has turned into an open dispute about who actually controls the project's social accounts. Shiba Inu (SHIB) began life as a memecoin, and the community has long treated these official handles as the network's mouthpiece for Layer 2 updates, ecosystem developments and announcements. A blackout of this length therefore raises a governance question that no filing or forum post has yet answered. Community members have asked who runs the handle, why updates stopped and whether regular communication will return.

On November 7, longtime community member Mazrael published an X post setting out what he believes is happening behind the scenes: a post alleging deliberate muting. His claim is that certain people hold access to the project's principal social media accounts, the official Shibarium handle included, and that they keep it inactive on purpose. In his own words, these holders act as “silence leeches,” spreading FUD across the community while steering followers toward bundled tokens and rugs they can profit from. The accusation reframes the account's inactivity from neglect into deliberate strategy, a materially more serious charge. Mazrael is an established voice in these disputes; he earlier warned holders about the DarkSword iOS exploit affecting iOS 18.4 through 18.7, and his posts tend to move fast through Shiba Inu (SHIB) community channels.

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The practical cost of the silence is straightforward. @shibariumnet is where updates on the network, its fee mechanics and community notices are expected to appear, so an extended gap leaves the project's technical work effectively unannounced. No official clarification has been issued since the July 13 post. Until one comes, the questions about account control and the reason for the muting will keep circulating on channels the project itself does not control.

Transactions Fall to 1,020 from 6,370 Peak

The activity picture underneath the dispute offers little comfort either. Shibarium is the ecosystem's Layer 2 network, a scaling design built to cut transaction costs in the same way peers such as the Aztec Network reduce fees on Ethereum. On-chain data from Shibariumscan, the network's block explorer, puts daily transactions at roughly 1,020, a steep fall from the 6,370 peak recorded on October 31. The explorer's homepage carries a notice that indexing of the chain is still underway, with 65% of blocks indexed so far. While that process runs, block and transaction data can render delayed or incomplete, which complicates any attempt to read the network's true throughput.

The team describes the network as being in rebuild mode, with developers carrying out quiet upgrades in the background rather than pushing them through the dormant announcement account. The technical work is therefore visible mainly through the explorer page while the official channel stays dark. Flat on-chain momentum amid a dull market has been the pattern for weeks, which makes the October 31 peak look like an isolated burst rather than a trend.

Market data has not offset the picture. The SHIB price slipped 1.15% over the last 24 hours to $0.00000445. COINOTAG's own derivatives monitoring shows futures flow dropped 67x to a net outflow of $207,230 across three days, evidence that leveraged positions unwound as the spot tape weakened. Neither figure suggests buyers are positioning for a near-term turn.

A Rebuild Without a Voice

COINOTAG's reading is that the two threads compound each other. A network reindexing its own chain normally needs an official channel to explain a figure like 65% of blocks indexed; with @shibariumnet dark, the only narratives filling that gap are unofficial ones such as Mazrael's, and those are the hardest for the project to answer. The flow data tells the same story from the trading side. With futures already in net outflow and the token trading under $0.000005, there is little cushion against further confidence damage. Our SHIB technical analysis frames the market around the current $0.000004764 support, which recent sessions tested repeatedly. Until the account resumes posting, expect the community's questions about control to grow louder rather than quieter.