Shib is the official account for Shiba Inu, an Ethereum-based meme cryptocurrency and decentralized ecosystem founded by the pseudonymous creator Ryoshi in August 2020. Shib's Twitter Score is 130 out of 1000 (an Excellent rating) as of October 2026, ranking #4,808 (top 1%) among 493,668 tracked accounts.
Shib was founded by Ryoshi with no private sale or venture capital backing, making Shiba Inu a fully community-owned project from its inception. The core token, SHIB, is an Ethereum-based ERC-20 token, and the broader ecosystem operates a multi-token system comprising SHIB, LEASH, and BONE. Half of the total SHIB supply was locked on Uniswap at launch, while the remaining half was sent to Vitalik Buterin, who later burned 40% of the total supply to a dead wallet and donated more than 50 trillion SHIB, worth over $1 billion at the time, to the India COVID-Crypto Relief Fund in May 2021.
Shib is affiliated with Shibarium, a Layer 2 network built to process transactions within the Shiba Inu ecosystem at lower costs, and with the decentralized exchange ShibaSwap. Shib has published 3,225 posts and has 3,860,265 followers as of October 2026 on the platform. Shib has been mentioned by 739 accounts, with 3,276 total mentions.
Who follows Shib on X?
The accounts that follow Shib include 454 founders, 67 angel investors, 473 influencers and 20 VCs, among them Ansem, jesse.base.eth, CoinDesk, Andrew Kang, SBF and Udi Wertheimer.