Weak Burn Strategy Weighs Shiba Inu Down in 2025: Can the Meme Coin Recover?

Shiba Inu's anemic token burn mechanism fails to ignite momentum—leaving investors questioning the meme coin's long-term viability as we head deeper into 2025.

The burn rate—or lack thereof—has become the project's Achilles' heel. While other tokens aggressively reduce supply to spur scarcity, SHIB's approach feels more like a gentle simmer than a raging inferno.

Market sentiment sours as tokenomics stall. Without meaningful deflationary pressure, price action remains lethargic—trapped in a cycle of hype without substance. Retail enthusiasm wanes; whale activity stagnates.

Can Shiba Inu pivot toward a stronger burn model, or is this the beginning of a slow fade into crypto irrelevance? Some analysts whisper what everyone's thinking: another case of 'dog coin' economics—more bark than bite.

Here’s How Much Shibarium Has Burned Shiba Inu Tokens

The Shibarium layer-2 solution was the most-hyped network before its launch, citing it would burn trillions of shiba inu tokens. The network activity would fund the burns, including fees from trading SHIB on the network. While all of that is true, the activity and burns are extremely meager and do not meet the point where they could push SHIB’s price in the charts.

Take, for example, Shibarium’s burn status – since its launch two years ago, it has burned only 1.38 billion Shiba Inu tokens. To put this in perspective, that’s worth only $17,000 of SHIB tokens sent to the dead wallet from the network. Even the half-yearly salary of a McDonald’s employee in the US is more than that. This shows that the network is in the lower rung of the financial barrel and has no way out to make it to the top.

In addition, the third-party app SHIB Burn has sent millions of Shiba Inu tokens to the dead wallet. Even there, the maximum number of daily burns stands at less than 2 million tokens. That’s less than $30 per day, and not even worth a meal for two if we step outside for dining.

The SHIB team had focused on burns before the launch of Shibarium, but the reality is strikingly different. Forget about removing 540 trillion tokens from circulation; even 1 trillion tokens now seems like it might not occur in our lifetime. Shiba Inu will never scale up in the charts if the burns continue at this level.