New information suggests that Shiba Inu (SHIB) is the largest ERC-20 token belongings amid the meridian 1,000 Ether (ETH) whales.

Co-ordinate to data compiled by WhaleStats looking at the Ethereum-based token holdings of the largest ETH wallets, SHIB represents 21.68% of the combined market share at $2.35 billion. The next highest asset in terms of holdings is Crypto.com'south native token, CRO, representing 5.54% at $603.9 meg.

According to data from CoinGecko, SHIB is currently the 11th-highest-ranked crypto asset in terms of full market place capitalization with $26.nine billion, suggesting that the ETH whales hold roughly 9% of all SHIB in circulation.

The fervent SHIB community has been on a mission to push crypto trading platforms, such as Coinbase and Robinhood, to list the asset. Its Change.org petition aimed at convincing them had received more than 530,000 signatures at the fourth dimension of writing. Coinbase Pro listed SHIB back in late September.

One pop brand that gave the thought of accepting SHIB for payments a decidedly cool reception is fast-food behemothic McDonald's, which replied to a tweet from ShibArmy1365 calling on the firm to take "SHIB for payment, please."

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McDonald'south wrote that "nosotros capeesh hearing your interest and continuously evaluate the payments feel."

Despite being the kind of non-committal boilerplate brush-off corporate PR accounts tend to make, it didn't stop the SHIB community from going into overdrive, with the post receiving more 500 retweets,1,400 likes and countless memes to kick.

ShibMac meme

"Appropriate response to build the hype. Tin can't await for the future!" Shib Social responded, while ISHIB chimed in with "Let'due south Call it a McShib!"

While information technology is unclear how McDonald's will go along, SHIB adoption has ramped up across the board this month. Crypto payments business firm CoinGate revealed on Nov. 11 that it had opened upwards SHIB back up so that 500 of its merchants can take SHIB payments. The Samsung-backed digital wallet provider ZenGo also added the beloved dog meme token to its platform on Wednesday.

SHIB x McDonald's meme

SHIB stands strong

Amid the contempo pullback across the crypto market that began effectually November. 11, SHIB has taken a minimal hit of iv.ane% to sit at $0.00004854 at the time of writing. Nonetheless, after reaching an all-time high of $0.00008616 on October. 28, SHIB is downward 43.6%.

While the price is on a downwards trend, the asset'due south popularity hasn't waned, with the official SHIB Twitter account surpassing 2 million followers on Wednesday.