Sunday, December 07, 2025 | 06:05 PM ISTहिंदी में पढें
Business Standard
Notification Icon
userprofile IconSearch

How to use 50 trillion Shiba Inu in Covid-hit, crypto-wary India

Prices of Shiba Inu have recovered about 25% in the past 24 hours, according to CoinGecko.com.

Photo: Reuters
premium

Photo: Reuters

Bloomberg | Suvashree Ghosh
When Vitalik Buterin, one of the creators of the cryptocurrency Ethereum, donated more than 50 trillion Shiba Inu coins ($1 billion) into an aid fund for Covid-ravaged India, it raised more concern than relief in the crypto-wary nation.

Not only did the contribution -- more than 5% of total Shiba Inu coins in circulation -- send prices plummeting by 50%, it also created questions about how to use the currency in a country that strictly monitors foreign inflows and where the central bank has voiced “major concerns” about cryptocurrency in general, forget about a memecoin.

Ethereum Founder’s $1 Billion Gift Rocks Shiba