Shiba Inu Supply Locked Away as Ryoshi's Earlier Move Seals SHIB's Fate

Q: What percentage of Shiba Inu's supply was locked in Uniswap?

50% of Shiba Inu's total supply was locked in Uniswap to create liquidity at the token's launch.

Q: Who controlled the locked Shiba Inu supply before it was destroyed?

Ryoshi initially sent half of the supply to Vitalik Buterin, who had the ability to burn it, but Ryoshi destroyed access to the remaining supply afterward.

Q: What does it mean for Shiba Inu burns to only work one way?

For Shiba Inu, users must first buy SHIB before they can burn it, as the supply locked away cannot be accessed or manipulated.

A new tweet by Shiba Inu-focused X handle Shibizens brings Shiba Inu's tokenomics to the spotlight.

Shibizens shared a fun fact about Shiba Inu burns, highlighting an earlier move by Shiba Inu pseudonymous founder Ryoshi that locked the Shiba Inu supply away.

When launching the SHIB token, 50% of the token’s total supply was locked in Uniswap, with the keys destroyed to create a permanent base of SHIB market liquidity.

Fun Fact 🔥

With Shiba Inu, burns only work one way:

👉 You have to buy SHIB first
👉 Then you can burn it

From the start:

Ryoshi sent half the supply to Vitalik Buterin
👉 He owned it
👉 So he could burn it

Important:

👉 Ryoshi destroyed access to the remaining supply
👉… pic.twitter.com/O3ftwHFOEh

— Shibarium | SHIB.IO (@Shibizens) April 10, 2026

Ryoshi locked 50% of the initial 1 quadrillion Shiba Inu supply in Uniswap (V2/V3) to create liquidity at launch. Ryoshi "threw away the keys" afterward, destroying access to the remaining supply with no control or way to touch it again.

The remaining 50% of the total SHIB token supply was gifted to Ethereum founder Vitalik Buterin. On May 16, 2021, Buterin burned the majority of the SHIB tokens, about 410 trillion representing 41% of the total SHIB supply.

No tokens were reserved for Shiba’s founders and developers. With this unique approach, the Shiba Inu team believed that they had executed a fair and open token launch in a new way.

Shiba Inu price

Shiba Inu's price saw a rebound on Friday after two days of drop, rising to $0.000006, fueled by a broader market rebound following inflation data.

The Consumer Price Index (CPI) rose 0.9% in March, according to a Friday report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Economists had forecast a 0.9% rise, and February's increase was 0.3%. On a year-over-year basis, CPI was higher by 3.3% against expectations of 3.3% and February's 2.4%.

Ahead of the data, there was about a 99% chance the Fed would stay on hold at its late-April meeting and a 97% chance of the same at the mid-June meeting, according to CME FedWatch.

At the time of writing, SHIB was down 0.24% in the last 24 hours to $0.0000059. Shiba Inu's price faces an important test: first to sustain above the daily MA 50 at $0.00000586 and to achieve a decisive breakout above $0.000006.