Shiba Inu (SHIB) struggled to gain momentum throughout 2025 and fell further after a market-wide crash late that year, weighing on prices across crypto markets. Early buyers remain sitting on outsized gains from SHIB’s 2021 rally.
According to Changelly‘s ROI calculator, a $150 purchase made after SHIB’s August 2020 launch would be worth about $1.3 million today. That equates to roughly an 884,838% return.
If sold at SHIB’s all-time high of $0.00008616 on Oct. 28, 2021, the same $150 would have been worth about $15.45 million. That represents about a 10.3 million percent gain.
Vitalik Buterin received half of SHIB’s initial supply and burned roughly 90% of those tokens, a move that helped validate the project in the community. (Ed. note: That burn is cited as a key catalyst for SHIB’s 2021 surge.)
Macroeconomic and geopolitical concerns pushed investors away from risky assets in late 2025, further pressuring SHIB. The token is expected by observers to reclaim higher prices once broader market confidence returns.
