On the record: Binance raised the collateral ratio for Shiba Inu from 50 to 60 percent on October 23, 2026 at 06:00 UTC. Our assessment follows further down: a higher ratio enlarges the credit line, not the depth of the market behind it.
Anyone holding Shiba Inu in a cross-margin account at Binance can borrow more against it since Friday morning than in the week before. $1,000 of posted SHIB now counts as $600 of collateral value instead of $500. The coin itself has not changed: on Saturday evening SHIB traded at $0.00000488, roughly 4.0 percent below the level 24 hours earlier, at a market value of $2.88 billion (market data from CoinGecko, as of October 24, retrieved that evening).
The change is not limited to SHIB. Binance made it for seven assets at once, three of them in the same step as Shiba Inu.
What Binance changed about the collateral ratio on October 23
The switch began on October 23 at 06:00 UTC and was complete within about 30 minutes, according to the exchange. Cross Margin and Portfolio Margin are the products affected. For Polygon Ecosystem Token (POL), Shiba Inu and Stellar (XLM) the ratio rose from...
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