Shiba Inu is a memecoin on the Ethereum blockchain that launched in August 2020 as a tongue-in-cheek rival to Dogecoin and now supports a small ecosystem of its own. The token is called SHIB and follows the ERC-20 standard. Around it, a dedicated layer-2 blockchain called Shibarium, the ShibaSwap exchange and the side tokens BONE, LEASH and TREAT have emerged. Anyone asking what Shiba Inu is therefore has to separate two things: the coin, whose price runs almost entirely on sentiment, and the network around it, which has so far seen little use.
On November 5, 2026, one SHIB cost roughly €0.00000406, according to CoinGecko. Its market capitalisation stood at about €2.4 billion, enough for 37th place among all cryptocurrencies. That leaves the price a good 94 percent below its record high of October 2021. For investors in Germany, the story of the dog in the logo ultimately matters less than where you trade SHIB under MiCA rules, how you store it and when gains become tax-free. That is where this profile is heading.
Shiba Inu in a nutshell: memecoin, ERC-20 token and ecosystem
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