On-chain data shows conviction remains strong among the Shiba Inu long-term holders as they still control a decent majority of the supply.
Shiba Inu Long-Term Holders Haven’t Been Selling Amid Volatility
In a new post on X, the market intelligence platform IntoTheBlock has discussed how the holdings of the Shiba Inu long-term holders have changed recently.
The analytics firm defines long-term holders or ‘HODLers’ as investors who have been holding onto their coins since more than one year ago. The investors not part of this group can be classified into two categories: ‘traders’ who purchased their coins within the past month and ‘cruisers’ who have gone beyond the one-month cutoff but are yet to mature into the HODLers.
Statistically, the longer an investor holds onto their coins, the less likely they become to sell said coins in the future. As such, holder resolve rises as one goes from traders to HODLers.
Though the long-term holders include the strongest of hands in the market, it doesn’t mean that the cohort never participates in selling. Indeed, some periods can be too overwhelming for even these stalwart diamonds.
As the below chart shows, the Shiba Inu HODLers saw their supply go through a notable drop during the price rally in the first quarter of 2024, suggesting the members of this group took part in profit-taking.
The value of the metric appears to have been climbing in recent months | Source: IntoTheBlock on X
A couple of small selloffs also came toward the end of 2024 and the start of 2025, but other than them, the Shiba Inu long-term holders have shown remarkable resilience through the recent volatility.
In fact, the supply held by these diamond hands has observed a net increase in the last couple of months. Following this rise, the HODLers own more than 80% of the meme coin’s circulating supply. “This indicates that even amid challenges in the memecoin market, many SHIB holders remain optimistic,” notes IntoTheBlock.
Something to note is that an increase in this metric isn’t an indication that the long-term holders are participating in ‘buying.’ Rather, it represents a promotion of supply from the cruiser group. The actual buying would have occurred twelve months ago, meaning that there is a delay of one year present between when the indicator goes up and when the accumulation actually happened.
While buying has this time-gap attached to it, the same isn’t true for selling, since HODLers are instantly demoted into the trader group as soon as they break their dormancy.
In another X post, the analytics firm has also shared the trend in the supply of Bitcoin long-term holders. From this chart, it’s visible that the BTC diamond hands participated in significant selling during the bull rally, but their supply has also started to turn around recently.
The trend in the BTC HODLer balance over the past decade | Source: IntoTheBlock on X
SHIB Price
At the time of writing, Shiba Inu is floating around $0.000012, down almost 16% in the last seven days.
The trend in the SHIB price during the last five days | Source: SHIBUSDT on TradingView
