Can SHIB achieve the dream of "removing a few zeros"? This question has always been the focus of community discussion.

The reality is in front of us—circulating supply of 589 trillion tokens, along with a current market cap of over $16 billion. What does removing one zero mean? It means the market cap would need to increase tenfold. Doing the math makes it clear: if SHIB rises from $0.000025 to $0.00025 (removing one zero), the market cap would reach around $1.6 trillion. What does this concept entail? It’s close to twice the current Bitcoin market cap. Without unprecedented capital inflows and ecosystem support, it’s simply impossible to achieve.

The team is not sitting idly by either. Shibarium, as a Layer 2 network, is already under development, and applications in the metaverse, gaming, and other areas are also being rolled out. The goal is clear: shed the pure meme label and give SHIB real utility and value support. It sounds promising, but there’s a practical issue—deflation efficiency. Currently, the annual burn rate through transaction fees on Shibarium is only 0.02%. For the total supply, this is hardly enough. To truly reduce circulating supply, more aggressive deflationary designs or large-scale application breakthroughs are necessary.

If we talk about the possibility, in the medium to long term (3 to 5 years), assuming the crypto market enters a genuine super bull run and the SHIB ecosystem makes breakthrough progress, removing 1 to 2 zeros (price range between $0.0001 and $0.001) is still possible. But this requires three conditions to be met simultaneously: a bull market cycle (timing), ecosystem prosperity (geography), and continuous community effort (people). As for more aggressive targets like reaching $0.01, that would require a trillion-dollar market cap, which is virtually impossible.

That said, the crypto world never plays by the rules. Predictions are always a game of probabilities.