Can Shiba Inu (SHIB) Reach $1 in 2025? The Answer Might Blow Your Mind

The Shiba Inu (CRYPTO: SHIB) cryptocurrency opened at a price of $0.00000000008 per token in 2021 before soaring by a whopping 107,499,900% to a peak of $0.000086 in October of that year.

The price of a Shiba Inu (CRYPTO: SHIB) token opened at $0.00000000008 in 2021 before embarking on a stunning ascent, ultimately reaching a peak of $0.000086 in October of that year, marking a gain of over 107,499,900%. If you had managed to time your investment perfectly, that gain could have turned just $1 into more than $1 million.

However, unlike some cryptocurrencies that have a genuine use case, such as Bitcoin, which many investors use as a store of value, Shiba Inu has no real utility. It's essentially a meme token that tends to swing up and down based on the whims of speculators.

As a result, it fell more than 90% from its peak by mid-2022. Even after a positive year in 2024, Shiba Inu's current price of $0.000023 is still more than 70% lower than its all-time high.

But cryptocurrencies are riding a series of tailwinds that could help them create a significant amount of value during 2025. So could Shiba Inu stage another historic run and hit $1 per token this time around? The answer might blow your mind.

Risk-on sentiment, falling interest rates, and a pro-crypto U.S. government

Investors were extremely bullish in 2024. The S&P 500, Nasdaq Composite, and Dow Jones Industrial Average all hit record highs throughout the year. Plus, the total value of all circulating cryptocurrencies reached an all-time high of $3.9 trillion.

Favorable macroeconomic conditions were a big help. The U.S. economy remained strong, while at the same time the Federal Reserve declared victory over the inflation surge from a couple of years ago, and started cutting interest rates in September. Lower rates reduce the yield on risk-free assets like cash, which makes growth assets like stocks -- and even cryptocurrencies -- more enticing to investors.

Sentiment grew even more positive after former President Donald Trump won the U.S. presidential election in November, because he campaigned on pro-business policies like deregulation and lower corporate taxes. Plus, he has promised to lead the most pro-crypto administration in American history -- he already nominated crypto advocate Paul Atkins to run the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), pending Senate approval.

Those factors have created a risk-on environment that's been a boon for speculative assets like Shiba Inu. Therefore, even though the meme token has no real use case, it still more than doubled last year as investors swooped in hoping to catch another historic rally.

Shiba Inu faces fundamental challenges, including a supply problem

According to Cryptwerk, just 998 businesses around the world are willing to accept Shiba Inu as payment for goods and services, and many of them are obscure providers of internet and crypto services, and even online gambling houses. Shiba Inu simply doesn't function well as a currency; aside from its extreme volatility, the legacy Ethereum network upon which it is built is clunky and expensive to use.

Shiba Inu developers created a Layer-2 blockchain solution called Shibarium to solve some of those issues, but it doesn't appear to have increased consumer adoption. Simply put, another speculative frenzy might be the only way Shiba Inu can stage meaningful upside from here.

But reaching $1 will be almost impossible in Shiba Inu's current state because it has a supply problem. There are 589.5 trillion tokens in circulation, so based on the current price-per-token of $0.000023, Shiba Inu has a market capitalization of about $13 billion.

Simple math dictates that a price per token of $1 would result in a market cap of $589.5 trillion. That would make Shiba Inu 159 times more valuable than Apple, which is the world's largest company (valued at $3.7 trillion). It would also be more valuable than the total wealth of every person on Earth, which was $454 trillion at the end of 2022, according to UBS.

The Shiba Inu community is trying to solve the supply problem by burning tokens, which removes them from circulation forever. The simplest way to do that is by sending tokens to a dead wallet where they can never be retrieved. Theoretically, the price per Shiba Inu token should rise organically in proportion to the number of tokens burned.

Shiba Inu could technically reach $1

Investors would have to burn 99.99998% of the current supply in order to send Shiba Inu to $1, based on its current market cap. Therefore, nearly all of the 589.5 trillion tokens in circulation need to be eliminated, leaving just 13 billion