Within the early hours of two August, builders behind the favored meme cryptocurrency Shiba Inu [SHIB] unveiled the title of its long-awaited CCG sport.
In keeping with the announcement, the sport will probably be referred to as “Shiba Eternity” and will probably be made obtainable to gamers on the Apple app retailer and Google play retailer. Nevertheless, with continued buyers’ apathy, it’s unclear whether or not this new sport will help revive curiosity within the ailing SHIB token.
At present buying and selling at its October 2021 degree, SHIB, the mission’s native token, has been on a value decline for over 9 months.
Dwindling curiosity within the native token has deepened regardless of the plethora of initiatives inside the Shiba Inu ecosystem. For instance, because the launch of its Shib Metaverse, SHIB has misplaced over 90% of its worth.
With a gentle decline in value because the starting of the yr, how did the token fare within the first half of the yr?
6-month lengthy decline
Shiba Inu began the yr at an index value of $0.000033. Within the first 180 days of the yr, the worth of the meme token declined by 69%. By 30 June, one SHIB token exchanged fingers at $0.00001.
In H1 (first half of a calendar yr) 2022, as the worth plummeted, buying and selling exercise for SHIB additionally declined. After a buying and selling quantity excessive of 4.79 billion on 7 February, buying and selling exercise for the token dropped considerably.
SHIB closed H1 with an 85% decline in buying and selling quantity because the excessive of seven February.
Additionally, within the 6-month interval, SHIB’s market capitalization dropped from $18 billion to $5 billion.

Supply: Santiment
On 30 March, the builders behind the Shiba Inu launched the Shib: The Metaverse, its digital actuality mission. Sadly, with the launch of the metaverse and the sale of digital plots of land failing to ignite buyers’ curiosity, the meme token has declined by 55% since 30 March.
Additional, following the massacre that noticed the costs of crypto property recording new lows in April and June, July provided a recent begin as a number of cryptocurrencies registered development in value within the 31-day interval. Inside that interval, SHIB noticed some reduction. Its value grew by 20%.
On-chain efficiency
Curiously, via the thick of the crypto market massacre, SHIB bag holders remained resilient and proceed to be. The provision of SHIB tokens on exchanges has taken on a downard slope since 11 April.
This means that extra buyers are holding on to their tokens regardless of the continued decline in value.

Supply: Santiment
After logging a each day excessive of 39,209 distinctive addresses on March 16, each day lively addresses that traded SHIB tokens declined considerably.
Closing H1 with 3867 addresses on 30 June, the metric dropped by 90% since mid march. As well as, SHIB registered a 64% decline within the variety of new addresses that have been created on the community within the first half of the yr.

Supply: Santiment
On 20 July, Shiba Inu announced its partnership with The Third Flooring (TTF) for the design and building of its extremely anticipated SHIB.io The Metaverse Mission. Coupled with the sport’s launch, SHIB might have some respite earlier than the yr runs out.