The mysterious leader of the Shiba Inu developer team, known to the community under the pseudonym Shytoshi Kusama, has remained silent for more than two weeks now.
This is the third time that he has disappeared from the public eye this year.
No social activity from Kusama for 2+ weeks
The last trace of Shytoshi Kusama’s activity on the X social media platform (formerly known as Twitter) was seen on May 12, when he reposted a tweet from the @Shibtoken account, featuring a news release. There were two other retweets on the same day.
Before that, Kusama reposted on May 1, and his last tweet before that was April 24, when he shared a link to his podcast, “Shy Speaks SHIB,” about Shiba Inu’s layer-3 Alpha.
On April 22, Shytoshi stunned the SHIB community with a new geolocation status on his X page. It stated: “In the studio and quite angry.” Notably, this status remains on his page still.
Back then, the SHIB marketing lead, Lucie, commented that perhaps it meant that Kusama was attacked or “dragged into a drama.” Prior to that, Kusama had also remained silent on social media for roughly two months. The community believed he was busy developing the aforementioned Alpha 3-layer solution on top of Shibarium and promoting the SHIB ecosystem in general around the world. It is likely that the same thing is happening now as well.
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SHIB targets 17% growth, analyst says
Cryptocurrency analyst and trader Ali Martinez has published a tweet, showing that the second-largest meme cryptocurrency, Shiba Inu, might be in for a significant price jump. Martinez tweeted that SHIB is forming a symmetrical triangle pattern on the chart and is consolidating within it.
This technical setup, the trader says, indicates that SHIB may potentially stage a breakout of 17% upwards.
When the chart was published, the meme coin changed hands at 0.00001461. A 19% increase would take the price up to $0.00001738.
#ShibaInu $SHIB consolidates within a triangle, awaiting a 17% price move! pic.twitter.com/jdjMzVxtme
— Ali (@ali_charts) May 28, 2025
Since May 23, Shiba Inu has lost more than 10%, dropping from the $0.00001586 level until it hit $0.00001420 earlier today. After a small rise that took place after that, SHIB has by now printed a large red candle on an hourly chart and gone down by 1.11%.
