The price of Shiba Inu (SHIB) has dropped by 1% in the past 24 hours, with its fall to $0.00000840 coming as the cryptocurrency market as a whole moves sideways today.
SHIB is now up by 7.5% in the last seven days and by 10% in the last 30, yet the meme token is up by only 3.5% since the beginning of 2023, in contrast to other major tokens such as Bitcoin (BTC), which has gained by around 77% since January 1.
This underperformance has come as the Shiba Inu community continues to wait for the much-delayed Shibarium layer-two network, which launched in beta form in April but has yet to to see its full launch, frustrating investors hoping for some good news to buy.
However, Shiba Inu's disappointing price action this year has enabled a wave of new meme tokens to emerge and outperform the market, with the launch of Shibie – a cross between Shiba Inu and Barbie – promising to deliver another above-average performer in the next few weeks.
Despite its dip today, SHIB has had a fairly good week, with its technical indicators reflecting this.
Its relative strength index (purple) is rising towards 60 and looks as though it could climb higher, indicating further gains for the coin in the short-term.
Likewise, SHIB's 30-day moving average (yellow) is rising strongly above its 200-day average (blue) and looks as though it has room to move further, again indicating incoming rises for the cryptocurrency.
This could hopefully compensate for what has been a very disappointing year for SHIB, which is not really any higher than it was on January 1, largely because of a lack of positive news and developments for Shiba Inu.
Its underperformance this year seems all the more disappointing when it's remembered that, back in 2021, SHIB hit an all-time
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