Kraken, a San Francisco-based cryptocurrency exchange, said Tuesday, according to an announcement made by the company on Twitter. Shiba Inu (SHIB) will list.
Kraken approached the listing in an unorthodox way. Instead of making an official announcement, Kraken’s product lead Brian Hoffman challenged Shiba Inu fans to get the post at least 2,000 likes.
This was, of course, an easily attainable goal for one of the fastest growing cryptocurrency communities.
“Brian Hoffman stated that if we get 2,000 likes, we’ll list SHIB tomorrow – but he doesn’t believe we can do that. SHIB army where are you?”
🐶♥️🐶♥️🐶♥️🐶♥️🐶@brianchoffman said if we get 2,000 likes we will list $SHIB tomorrow – but he doesn’t think we can do it.#SHIBArmy where you at?
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💬 🔁 ♥️— Kraken Exchange (@krakenfx) November 1, 2021
At the time of writing, the tweet has garnered more than 25800 likes, which means the hottest cryptocurrency will now appear on the trading platform as soon as Tuesday.
The Shiba Inu became available on Coinbase in mid-September. The addition of the meme coin to the largest US exchange was seen as a harbinger of the cryptocurrency’s big rally in October.
The “Dogecoin killer” is also gaining a lot of attention on other trading platforms. Earlier today, Binance announced a trading pair that allows the Shiba Inu to trade against its arch-rival. The SHIB/DOGE pair will be available on November 2.
But Robinhood continues to block the way of the Shiba Inu, despite Change.org’s petition to list the cryptocurrency with more than 450,000 signatures.
The Shiba Inu continues to hold a solid ninth place in the CoinMarketCap rankings, up nearly 10 percent in the last 24 hours.