Although Shiba Inu (SHIB) has underperformed over the past year, discussions about whether it is still a worthwhile investment in 2026 are heating up in the crypto market. As the 2025 cryptocurrency market experiences macro headwinds and structural changes, investors are beginning to reassess the long-term value of mainstream altcoins including SHIB. On the overall market level, Bitcoin and Ethereum hit all-time highs successively in 2025, but this rally did not significantly boost Shiba Inu. SHIB's price temporarily fell to a multi-year low of around $0.0000066, far from the previously targeted $0.0001. This trend has led to clear disagreements in the market about Shiba Inu's future price prospects.

The Shiba Inu team announced a comprehensive privacy upgrade to its Shibarium platform and collaboration with an artificial intelligence gaming company to enhance the utility of the SHIB Token. Official spokesperson Lucie stated on X that the Shibarium platform is expected to achieve full on-chain privacy in the second quarter of 2026. Crypto company Zama will introduce Fully Homomorphic Encryption (FHE) technology to the network, allowing smart contracts to be executed directly on encrypted data without decryption, thereby enhancing the security of transactions and contracts. This technology will transform Shibarium from a typical Layer-2 chain into a privacy-focused blockchain network. Zama's public testnet has been launched on the Ethereum Sepolia network, with plans to go live on the Ethereum mainnet by the end of the year, and to expand to EVM-compatible chains in the first half of 2026, before deploying to Solana by the end of the year.

PANews, October 5th news, @Shibburn posted on the X platform stating that the SHIB Token burning activity has significantly increased in the past week, with its burn rate soaring by 449.66%. According to statistics, a total of 71,297,136 $SHIB have been permanently removed in the past seven days.

Gate News Bot 消息，09月23日，据CoinMarketCap行情，截至发稿时，SHIB（Shiba Inu）现报 0.0000121041美元，24 小时内下跌3.63%，最高触及 0.0000136036美元，最低回落至 0.0000119379美元，24 小时交易量达 3.54亿美元。当前市值约为 71.32亿美元，较昨日减少约 2.69亿美元。