Any honest Shiba Inu price prediction starts from the same fact: SHIB already made its legendary run, and the next one has to move hundreds of trillions of tokens.

So this forecast maps a path instead of promising fireworks, through the burns, Shibarium, the supply math, and the meme cycle. It also covers the other Ethereum meme story this week, a brand new stage one opening Friday on Bullski’s official website, where the free priority list is filling ahead of launch.

SHIB’s Path From Here

SHIB launched on Ethereum in August 2020 and turned a joke into an empire: Shibarium, its own layer 2, a burn portal steadily retiring tokens, listings on most major exchanges, and one of the biggest holder bases in crypto. The project outgrew the meme label years ago, which is exactly what a forecast has to price.

Mature coins move differently. SHIB trades with Bitcoin and the broader meme cycle more than on its own headlines, and the wild percentage days of 2021 have given way to slower, heavier swings. The question is no longer survival, it is how far this base carries the next leg.

Shiba Inu Price Prediction: The Scenarios

Four forces set the path. Burns retire tokens daily, at a pace that trims the supply rather than transforms it. Shibarium adds transactions, and more activity means more burning and more reasons to hold.

Against both stands the big headwind, a circulating supply in the hundreds of trillions, so every rally needs enormous new money just to move the price. The wild card is the meme cycle, which still lifts SHIB hard in risk-on seasons.

Here is how those forces stack into scenarios along SHIB’s path, hedged the way any honest forecast should be.

Phase Advertisement	Bear	Base	Bull
Range phase (now) Advertisement	Slides toward the bottom of its long range	Chops sideways while burns trim supply	Reclaims the top of the range early
Meme cycle turn Advertisement	The bounce fades under old resistance	New yearly highs alongside the sector	Leads the sector as the household name
Shibarium traction Advertisement	Activity stays too thin to matter	Burn pace grows and the floor firms up	Demand plus burns start work on a zero
Full breakout Advertisement	The 2021 peak stays out of reach	A long climb back toward old highs	A genuine retest of the $0.00008845 record

Watch out: SHIB’s enormous supply means even a strong rally moves the price by fractions of a cent. Size expectations to that math, not to screenshots from 2021.

Shiba Inu Technical Analysis: Levels to Watch

Analysts track three things on the SHIB chart: whether it defends its multi-year range lows, how it behaves around the round-number zero lines that act as psychological support and resistance, and how much air sits under the $0.00008845 all-time high from October 2021. Momentum arrives in bursts with the meme cycle, so the levels matter most when volume suddenly returns.

Why Launch Week Belongs to the New Ethereum Meme

Here is the part of the SHIB story people forget: there was never a SHIB presale. The token simply appeared on Ethereum in 2020, and whoever found it before the crowd caught the entry everyone has hunted since.

That is what makes this week different. Bullski ($BULLSKI) is the new Ethereum meme, an ERC-20 token with a fixed 120 billion supply, and its stage one is still ahead of it. The 16-stage presale climbs toward a $0.0025 listing reference, the contract is verified on Etherscan, an audit is in process, and liquidity locks at launch.

Staking and referrals run from day one, so early buyers earn while the stages fill.

The date is set: stage one opens at 5pm UTC on Friday, July 10. Until then, the free priority list is filling with buyers who want the first entry at the lowest stage price.

In short: SHIB proved an Ethereum meme can build an empire; launch week is about the one still laying its first brick.

SHIB Holders’ Launch-Week Move

None of this says sell your SHIB; the long-hold case above is real. The launch-week move is about the other slot in a meme portfolio, the early-entry slice that SHIB, by its own success, can no longer be.

Reserving that slice takes minutes. Head to the official site and add yourself to the priority list, then have an Ethereum wallet funded with ETH or USDT before Friday evening. When stage one opens, priority members enter ahead of the public rush, buy at the first stage price, and can put their tokens straight into staking while the crowd is still finding the page.

$250 USDT Giveaway: launch week comes with a bonus. Bullski’s “Bullish by Default” draw is sending $250 USDT to one winner, picked at random, no purchase needed. You can get in the Bullski giveaway by joining the Telegram and following on X, with extra entries for inviting a friend. Winners are announced only on the official channels, and the team will never ask for your keys.

Shiba Inu Price Prediction FAQ

What is the Shiba Inu price prediction?

The honest answer is a range. The base case keeps SHIB tracking the meme cycle while burns and Shibarium slowly tighten supply, the bull case works back toward old highs, and the bear case is a longer sideways drift.

Can SHIB break out this cycle?

It can, and it has surprised the market before. A strong meme season, rising Shibarium activity, and a faster burn rate are the ingredients to watch. The caveat is scale: lifting a coin with hundreds of trillions of tokens takes far more new money than it did in 2021.

What is holding SHIB back?

Mostly its own size. With a circulating supply in the hundreds of trillions, even large inflows nudge the price rather than move it, and the easy discovery phase ended years ago. Burns help at the margins, but that math is the headwind every SHIB forecast has to respect.

What launches this week on Bullski?

Stage one of the 16-stage Bullski presale opens this Friday at 5pm UTC. Priority list members enter first, buy $BULLSKI with ETH or USDT at the earliest price, and can stake immediately as the sale climbs toward the $0.0025 listing reference.

For More Information

Website: Visit the official Bullski website at bullski.io

Telegram: Join the Bullski Telegram channel at t.me/BullskiCoinOfficial

X (Twitter): Follow Bullski on X at x.com/bullskicoin

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European Union officials are reportedly planning to revise the Markets in Crypto-Assets (MiCA) framework amid the implementation of a US law on stablecoins.

According to a Wednesday report from Euronews, EU officials planned to revisit proposed changes to MiCA to broaden the framework’s scope, specifically regarding non-EU companies issuing stablecoins. 

The revised rules, which authorities will reportedly consider in 2027, were in response to the US government’s Guiding and Establishing National Innovation for US Stablecoins, or GENIUS, Act, putting pressure on EU officials to clarify how US stablecoin issuers could be regulated in member states. Officials will also reportedly consider expanding MiCA to include rules on tokenized payments and deposits.

Under MiCA, crypto companies offering services to EU-based users across 27 member states must now be licensed as Crypto-Asset Service Providers (CASPs) by a regulator in one of the member states. Although the licensing requirement took effect on July 1, European Commission officials had already opened a comment period for potentially revising the framework, including provisions on decentralized finance (DeFi) and stablecoins.

Related: Stablecoin-settled TradFi perpetual trading tops $1.1T: Binance Research

The proposed framework, which some have dubbed “MiCA 2.0,” will remain open for comments until Aug. 31. However, Miroslav Durić, a senior associate at Taylor Wessing, told Cointelegraph in June that it was unlikely that “any concrete legislative proposals will be adopted before 2028.”

In addition to the GENIUS Act, US lawmakers are reportedly continuing discussions to advance their own version of market structure called the Digital Asset Market Clarity (CLARITY) Act. The bill, advanced by two key committees in the previous 12 months, is expected to head to a vote in the Senate in July before the chamber breaks for month-long state work periods.

EU regulators reviewing crypto custody risks

The European Securities and Markets Authority, one of the regulators supporting the implementation of MiCA, announced on Wednesday that it planned to review the operational resilience of CASPs licensed under the recently enacted framework. From July through the first half of 2027, EU regulators will examine how crypto companies handle custody-related operational risks.

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Circle stock has remained under pressure ahead of the July 18 deadline for U.S. regulators to publish implementation rules for the GENIUS Act, while technical indicators continue to point to downside risks for CRCL shares.

According to the GENIUS Act signed by President Donald Trump on July 18, 2025, federal agencies were given one year to prepare the regulatory framework governing stablecoin issuance, licensing, reserve management, and supervision.

That transition period expires on July 18, 2026, leaving the Federal Reserve, the U.S. Treasury, and other financial regulators with just days to release the required guidance.

The upcoming rules are important for Circle because the company issues USDC, one of the largest stablecoins by circulation. As crypto.news previously reported, any changes affecting reserve standards, licensing requirements, or issuer obligations could influence investor expectations for Circle’s business and, by extension, CRCL stock.

July 18 rules could become the next catalyst

Regulatory attention arrives as lawmakers remain divided over the second major U.S. crypto market structure bill.

Prediction market platform Polymarket currently assigns a 45% probability to the CLARITY Act becoming law. The bill has faced opposition from banks, which argue that allowing companies such as Circle and Coinbase to offer yield on stablecoin balances could encourage customers to move money out of traditional bank deposits.

While Congress continues debating the CLARITY Act, investors are now focused on the rules tied to legislation that has already been enacted. Unlike the pending bill, the GENIUS Act requires regulators to publish detailed implementation guidelines before the statutory deadline.

Market participants will be watching whether the agencies introduce stricter capital, reserve, disclosure, or licensing standards that could affect stablecoin issuers operating in the United States.

Technical charts continue to favor sellers

CRCL shares traded around $63 on July 8 after falling 2.84% during the session as geopolitical tensions weighed on risk assets following President Trump’s statement that the Iran ceasefire had ended.

The daily chart also shows that the stock remains locked in a sustained downtrend. Price continues to trade below a descending trendline that has capped every recovery attempt since May, while the Supertrend indicator remains bearish with resistance near $82.

Technical support is clustered around $61.70, which coincides with the 100% Fibonacci retracement level visible on the daily chart. A confirmed break below that level through three consecutive daily closes could expose the February low near $49, extending the current decline.

Momentum indicators continue to support the bearish outlook. The Relative Strength Index has slipped to about 35, showing that sellers still control the trend even as the stock approaches oversold territory. Although an oversold reading can precede a rebound, the chart has yet to produce a confirmed reversal signal.

Coinbase shares have also weakened alongside Circle. COIN traded below the psychological $160 level after failing to clear resistance around $168, a rejection that interrupted the recovery that began at the end of June.

The Coinbase chart likewise points to continued caution. Shares remain below a descending trendline, while the Chaikin Money Flow indicator has stayed negative, suggesting capital continues to leave the stock.

If selling pressure persists, the next support sits near $149, followed by the June 26 low around $139. A sustained move back above $168 would be needed before the technical outlook begins to improve.

More than $500 billion has been wiped from U.S. stock markets after President Donald Trump declared the U.S.-Iran ceasefire effectively over and warned that Washington could launch fresh military action against Iran.

According to remarks Trump made to reporters, he no longer considers the ceasefire in effect, saying, “I don’t want to have anything to do with them anymore; they’re scum.” During separate comments at the NATO Summit, Trump also said the United States would “probably” strike Iran again later that night, reigniting fears of a broader conflict across the Middle East.

Those remarks came only days after indirect talks between U.S. and Iranian negotiators, with mediation from Qatar and Pakistan in Doha, had reportedly produced positive progress. Tuesday’s statements raised doubts about whether those diplomatic gains could survive.

Markets reacted immediately. U.S. equities fell sharply, crude oil climbed, and cryptocurrencies extended losses as investors moved away from risk assets. Trump’s remarks also drew attention because he mistakenly referred to Iran as the “Islamic Republic of Japan” while describing what he said was an attack involving 11 missiles against a U.S. aircraft carrier.

Oil and equities have reacted first to renewed geopolitical fears

Energy markets recorded one of the strongest reactions. Crude oil jumped about 5%, testing resistance near $75 after traders priced in the possibility of supply disruptions. If prices establish themselves above the $72 level, technical price action suggests oil could challenge $78 in the short term.

Wall Street also turned lower. The S&P 500 fell roughly 1%, the Nasdaq 100 lost 1.5%, and the Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped 1.3%. Intraday trading pushed the S&P 500 down to around 7,429 before stabilizing slightly near 7,437.

Gold failed to benefit from the initial flight to safety, sliding about 2.5% from roughly $4,100 to $4,030.

Digital assets followed the weakness in equities. According to CoinGlass, 125,335 traders were liquidated over the past 24 hours, with total liquidations exceeding $385 million across the crypto market.

Bitcoin also extended its decline after already coming under pressure following reports that an oil tanker had been attacked in the Strait of Hormuz earlier this week. The cryptocurrency was trading near $62,200 at the time of writing after failing to reclaim resistance around $63,200, a level that coincides with the 78.6% Fibonacci retracement on the daily chart.

Technical indicators also show Bitcoin remaining below its Supertrend resistance near $65,800 while continuing to trade beneath a descending trendline, suggesting sellers still hold the advantage. If geopolitical tensions intensify further, the next major support lies near $57,900, with intermediate support around $61,500.

Trump’s warning about Iran’s infrastructure has raised supply concerns

Alongside declaring the ceasefire finished, Trump outlined what he claimed the U.S. military could do if hostilities escalate further.

“The U.S. military could destroy all of Iran’s bridges, disable its electrical grid, and destroy its desalinization plants in one day,” Trump said.

Trump additionally discussed Kharg Island, Iran’s primary oil export terminal, saying U.S. forces had struck part of the facility the previous night and suggesting they could eventually control the entire island.

Kharg Island handles most of Iran’s crude oil exports, making it one of the world’s most important energy infrastructure sites. Any prolonged disruption there could reduce global crude supplies and keep upward pressure on oil prices.

As traders continue assessing Washington’s next move, developments around Iran’s oil infrastructure are expected to remain one of the main drivers for oil, equity, and cryptocurrency markets in the coming sessions.

Bitcoin (BTC) trades slightly above $62,000 and is down nearly 2% over the past 24 hours amid a risk-off mood across global markets. The pressure is not coming from crypto exclusively and is more so attributed to a sharp selloff in semiconductor and AI stocks. 

Renewed profit-taking from Samsung sent Asian markets reeling overnight, and military escalation between the US and Iran sent oil up around 5%. As a result, US stocks opened lower, and on Wednesday the Federal Reserve released the minutes from its June meeting, a report traders typically watch closely for clues on the timing of any rate cut. 

Currently, markets price roughly a 73% chance the Fed holds rates steady at its next meeting on July 29, but the major takeaway for investors will be how the tone of the minutes frames the Fed’s view on inflation and interest rates.  

Bitcoin buyers quickly became sellers 

Bitcoin’s cumulative volume delta (CVD) showed traders buying on Monday, with futures CVD adding about $585 million and spot CVD adding nearly $119 million, for a combined $705 million in net buying as BTC rallied above $64,000. 

By Wednesday, the mood had shifted to reflect traders’ apprehension and the need to cut risk ahead of oil’s advance, the semiconductor selloff and the pending release of the Fed minutes. Futures market selling accelerated to nearly $500 million and spot followed with a $86 million sell volume. 

BTC/USD spot and futures CVD. Source: Hyblock

Bitcoin’s funding rate and open interest dropped, reflecting traders’ choice to cut positioning, but the week-long trend of positive funding rates remains intact. 

BTC/USD funding rate, open interest. Source: Hyblock

Liquidations have also stayed relatively small in dollar terms, but they are one-sided. Wednesday’s forced selling was almost entirely on the long side, with roughly $47 million in long liquidations versus about $4 million in short liquidations. 

Hyblock’s liquidation data shows a large cluster of long positions near $61,000 and if Bitcoin trades down into that zone, those forced sales can briefly accelerate the move lower. 

A trend reversal is not confirmed 

Although Bitcoin bulls put in a good effort, absorbing dips to $60,000 and below, and fresh flows from spot markets and BTC ETF buying show investor appetite in the current range, the bulk of the price move remains driven by futures activity. 

Wednesday’s price action demonstrates how fast conviction and price can unravel when the primary fuel behind the move is futures-driven, and sentiment across the crypto market remains in the “fear” category according to the Crypto Fear & Greed index.

Crypto Fear & Greed Index. Source: Alternative.me

Beyond the geopolitical and Fed-related impact on intra-day price action, Strategy’s recent sale of 3,588 BTC and the fact that Bitcoin’s current price is below its $74,582 average price have cast an ominous cloud over the wider market as investors grapple with the reality that the largest BTC treasury could become a frequent seller. 

Nasdaq halted trading in Sadot Group (SDOT) five times this morning as its shares collapsed as much as 72% from yesterday’s close.

The plunge followed a report from short-seller Fugazi Research, which declared that the company has “no meaningful fundamental value and is unsuitable for investment.”

The Nasdaq-listed agri-food company, once a burger chain known as Muscle Maker Grill, still has large financial obligations and evidently collapsing investor confidence.

By late morning in New York, the stock changed hands near $14, down about 65% from Tuesday’s $40.00 close. It briefly traded down to an intraday low of $11.01, or 72% below its 4pm price yesterday.

Each plunge tripped Nasdaq’s trading breakers, designed to maintain orderly market pricing.

As the volatile and relatively small company has swung wildly over the past few weeks, Nasdaq’s limit-up and limit-down circuit breakers have interrupted SDOT trading on roughly a dozen business days since early June.

From burgers to commodities trading

Fugazi Research’s report frames Sadot’s serial reinventions as “monkey-branching” across flimsy businesses. The report’s title derided the company, reading, “Raise Money, Change the Story, Sell Nothing, Repeat.”

The short-seller’s central allegation is that after all of Sadot’s pivots “there is no longer an operating business generating revenue.”

Sadot Group began as Muscle Maker, Inc., a fast-casual restaurant operator, rebranding in 2023 as a global agricultural commodities trader. It positioned itself alongside giants like Cargill and Bunge. 

That trading arm booked $132 million in revenue in the first quarter of 2025. One year later, for the quarter ending March 31, 2026, that division reported $0.

Pivots came fast. Sadot sold Muscle Maker Grill and its Pokémoto restaurant brands to Marv Brands in December 2025.

It lost a food farm to a court judgment the same month. 

Next, it sold its last trading unit, Sadot Latam LLC, on June 26 for $1,000 in cash plus a share of receivables it does not expect to collect.

As the company pivoted its strategic direction, its balance sheet persisted and deteriorated.

Read more: This penny stock pivoted to Solana and Hyperliquid and lost 99.9%

Sadot Group’s lopsided balance sheet

The company’s Q1 filing shows total liabilities of $60.8 million against total assets of $2.4 million, a shareholders’ deficit of $58.4 million, and discloses substantial doubt about its ability to continue as a going concern.

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Management, meanwhile, have been busy diluting shareholders to try to rescue the failing enterprise. In early June it acquired a UAE software company and its trading platform for a headline $12 million, payable almost entirely in stock.

It also took a six-month option on a $125.5 million California real estate portfolio, again payable in stock.

These dilutive events for shareholders have decimated its long-term stock price. Sadot has executed three reverse stock splits within the past two years, most recently a 1-for-20 reverse split on May 27. 

Shares have lost 90% of their value over the past 12 months, and 99% over the past five years.

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Distressed companies use the reverse split maneuver to manufacture a share price above Nasdaq’s $1 minimum bid requirement per share. 

Not enough stockholder equity

However, using reverse splits is not enough to stay listed. Separately, Nasdaq has warned that the company no longer meets its minimum stockholders’ equity rule, and also flagged it in April for filing its annual report late.

Nasdaq’s minimum equity requirement is “either a market value of listed securities of $35 million or net income from continuing operations of $500,000 in the most recently completed fiscal year or in two of the last three most recently completed fiscal years.”

It’s not a particularly high bar for a publicly traded company, yet Sadot Group is certainly struggling to meet it.

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Nor is it particularly difficult for a public company to file annual reports on time, but Sadot failed to do that, too.

Fugazi Research also cited a near-term, upcoming catalyst as a possible date of reckoning.

On August 13, Sadot Group is due to release its Q2 earnings announcement. When it discloses results for this quarter, Fugazi Research predicts, the company could disclose that it doesn’t have an operating business generating revenue.

For now, the Nasdaq tape is recording the panic among traders vying for position ahead of the company’s upcoming disclosures about its good, bad, or possibly non-existent Q2 revenue.

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SDOT traded as high as $106 intraday on July 2 and closed yesterday at $40.

Shares hit an intraday low of $11.01 today, and its terrifying 52-week range spans from $460 down to $2.63.

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