LuckSide situated SHIB\u2019s performance within a broader meme-asset rotation. He contended that the top tier of memes has been diluted as new entrants and brands pulled liquidity from incumbents: \u201cWhen we look at Dogecoin, we\u2019ve had Shiba Inu pull some of that market cap from Doge\u2026 Pepe has pulled some market cap from SHIB\u2026 and as each one of these has entered the space and done well\u2026 it\u2019s just sucked\u2026 some of the life out of these assets.\u201d He emphasized that this dynamic does not mean \u201cSHIB is dead,\u201d only that the ceiling has lowered until new participants arrive.<\/p>\n
Macro headwinds dominated his account of the past 18 months. He summarized 2025 as a year of \u201ctariffs, economic uncertainty, quantum computing concerns, [and] black swan events,\u201d and described 2024\u2019s late spring and summer as a period of \u201chigh interest rates\u201d and \u201cslowing down economy,\u201d with overhangs such as \u201cGerman government dumping\u201d and \u201cMt. Gox concerns.\u201d Against that backdrop, he argued, meme coins\u2014\u201ca small percentage of the total market\u201d\u2014typically require \u201ca lively\u201d market and \u201cadoption taking place\u201d to outperform. He framed the current meme-coin capitalization at \u201c$69.88 billion versus the total market cap of crypto which is 4 trillion\u201d to underline how dependent the niche is on incremental retail flows.<\/p>\n
How High Can Shiba Inu Still Go In 2025?<\/h2>\n
On SHIB-specific fundamentals, LuckSide pointed to what he sees as constructive on-chain behavior: \u201cWe\u2019ve seen whale accumulation except for like the last week or so,\u201d and \u201chuge supply removal from exchanges.\u201d He also reiterated a long-standing call about price resilience during the drawdown: \u201cShiba Inu has not dropped off a zero. While many people said it would, I called\u2026 that Shiba Inu would never add back a zero.\u201d Those signals, he said, have \u201cset the table for basically a big Shiba Inu boom\u201d if and when retail returns.<\/p>\n
His 2025 path splits into two scenarios. If retail continues to lag, he expects SHIB to remain capped within its broader trend, even if reflexive rallies occur: \u201cLet\u2019s say we get up here somewhere in September\u2026 that\u2019s\u2026 kind of sucks in the grand scheme of things,\u201d he said, arguing that such a move would still leave the token range-bound.<\/p>\n
If retail adoption is \u201cactually triggered and you see the masses flow into the market\u2026 which\u2026 is when the meme-coin percentage of market cap really tends to surge,\u201d he believes SHIB could \u201cdrop a zero, moving past $0.0001 for the first time ever.\u201d. In his words, \u201cFOMO is a hell of a drug. Supply shock is a hell of a thing to witness in the market.\u201d<\/p>\n
On timing, LuckSide sees a narrowing window in late 2025 into early 2026 for a renewed meme-coin phase. \u201cWhether that\u2019s here in 2025 still, whether that\u2019s early 2026, I think our window is really closing to where the market is actually going to take off and you\u2019re going to see this big meme-coin boom yet again,\u201d he said. Until then, he counseled patience and focus on on-chain support: \u201cWe just have to\u2026 understand that we need fundamentals to stay strong, and eventually things are going to work themselves out.\u201d<\/p>\n
The bottom line of his \u201chonest\u201d assessment is conditional rather than numeric. Absent a fresh retail cohort, SHIB\u2019s upside in 2025 may be incremental. With a decisive retail return\u2014evidenced by \u201cpeople downloading exchange apps and actually pushing capital into the space\u201d\u2014he argues the token could finally shed a decimal and set new highs. As he put it, \u201cRetail will not always be delayed in getting to the markets\u2026 and when it does\u2026 we have the potential for SHIB to hit some pretty insane highs.\u201d<\/p>\n
At press time, SHIB traded at $0.00001212.<\/p>\n
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