Shiba Inu (SHIB) Adds 147,593 Holders in 2026

147,593 Addresses Added Since January

The Shiba Inu (SHIB) holder base has grown to 1,696,223 on-chain holders, as the dog-themed memecoin added 147,593 wallet addresses since the start of 2026, 210 of them on Oct. 30 alone. That reading comes from the daily count logged for Day 303 of the year, published at 12:00 UTC on Oct. 30. The running tally is kept by the on-chain account Etherscan_SHIB, whose Day 303 update put the day’s addition at 210 holders. The SHIB price sits at $0.00000471, down 0.4% over the past 24 hours and little changed since the tally went out. The account posts the total once a day, so the year-to-date figure is a sum of daily increments rather than a single snapshot. Nothing on the chain itself explains the expansion; the explanations in circulation point to continued community engagement, accumulation by smaller investors and renewed interest in the wider Shiba Inu (SHIB) ecosystem. A higher count, in the tracker’s counting method, means more addresses carrying a SHIB balance, a broadening of ownership rather than a measure of buying size. What the record shows without ambiguity is persistence: the total has moved higher across rallies, sell-offs and the October slide alike. Each update this year has landed in the same bearish conditions that pushed most tokens lower, which makes the one-directional wallet growth the clearest on-chain constant SHIB carries into the final two months of 2026. The base now sits close to the 1.7 million line, and whether the pace of new addresses survives the remainder of 2026 is the question the next daily updates will answer.

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The on-chain record and the tape are telling two different stories, and our own readings make the gap measurable. Sentiment sits at 30 out of 100 on the Crypto Fear and Greed Index, deep in fear territory, the RSI reads 37.11 and the trend is classified as a downtrend. Perpetual funding runs at a near-flat 0.0038%, so neither side of the derivatives book is paying much to hold its position. Our SHIB technical analysis keeps the bearish framing intact at current levels, in line with the earlier warning about a $0.00000460 breakdown when bearish indicators aligned. Against that backdrop, a holder base that keeps adding addresses reads less like momentum chasing and more like slow, price-insensitive accumulation, the only part of the Shiba Inu (SHIB) story moving in one direction right now.

October Ends Down 18.12%

The month those addresses joined was a hostile one for the token’s market value. SHIB is down 18.12% for October with less than a day left on the clock, on course for its first red month since July. October, long nicknamed Uptober in crypto circles for its record of outperformance, has turned red across most of the market instead. A first losing month since July means August and September each closed higher, a streak the current tape has broken. Prices slid on Friday after a security breach at Binance, in which hot wallets were compromised and unauthorized withdrawals drained an estimated $6.3 billion worth of token assets. The breach rippled through the wider market on the last full trading day of the month, dragging tokens lower with it. A member of the Shiba Inu community, Mazrael, has put the token’s own exposure at close to 500 billion SHIB, roughly 0.05% of the total supply, caught up in the incident. Positioning added its own pressure earlier in the week, with net inflows of 92.07 billion tokens recorded moving onto exchanges. The week did carry one piece of utility news: Shiba Inu (SHIB) holders can now pay for rental cars through the travel platform Travala, accepted at more than 50,000 locations. Against that tape, the holder tally keeps its own rhythm, and the count of 1,696,223 leaves the base 3,777 addresses short of the 1.7 million line. That distance is small enough for a few ordinary days of wallet creation to close, and the next daily updates will show whether October’s price losses pulled it back open.