Shiba Inu (SHIB) will welcome some big surprises for the upcoming year, teased moderator of the official Shiba Inu Discord channel.
SHIB’s social media community went live on the AMA session with popular entrepreneur and public speaker of crypto space, David Gokhstein, yesterday December 29th.
This was the first Shiba Inu AMA on Twitter ever. During the session, the SHIB Discord channel moderators, came up with the statement, that:
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“We do have a big surprise when we enter 2022. So, that’s going to be the last little tidbit that I drop.”
The moderators did not reveal any further details. However, just hours after the live AMA session, the official Shib Twitter account published that Shib’s governance token BONE is confirmed to be used as the main token of the long-anticipated Shib’s layer-2 solution Shibarium.
Special Announcement:$BONE is confirmed as the token that will be used as gas in #Shibarium.#ShibArmy #ShibAMA
— Shib (@Shibtoken) December 30, 2021
Shibarium is expected to make SHIB transactions cheaper and will help to avoid high gas fees on the ETH network. Shiba Inu currently runs on the Ethereum network, which is often criticized for its enormous gas fees.
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The exact date of the Shibarium launch has not been specified, the community expects it to happen within the first quarter of 2022.
The community was also teased on the impressive Shiba Inu roadmap for 2022 and the burn initiatives that will be happening every month.
SHIB, the popular meme token currently ranks as the 13th biggest crypto with an $18.7 billion market cap.
Shiba Inu coin became the most popular crypto on Google Search this year, surpassing the dominating Bitcoin and Ethereum. SHIB holders’ army or in other words, the number of cryptocurrency wallets holding SHIB tokens currently accounts for more than 1.1 billion.
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- Elon Musk, the iconic CEO of Tesla, is in major part responsible for the enormous hype Shiba Inu coin witnessed in 2021. The social media support he has shown for the SHIB has helped build a loyal investor base and drive the token price to all-time highs.
