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Shibarium hits 1M wallets amid meteoric growth, SHIB yet to catch up

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Shibarium network activity has soared despite the price of SHIB falling more than 20% since the tumultuous launch of the layer-2 network. The total number of wallets on Shiba Inu’s newly launched layer-2 blockchain, the Shibarium network, has surpassed the one million mark in a meteoric rise since its relaunch.  The milestone — announced in a Sept. 3 blog post by the official Shibarium team — means there were at least 900,000 wallets added since Shibarium’s relaunch on Aug. 28, and only two weeks after the Shibarium network first went live — albeit with some technical hiccups. According to data from the Shibarium blockchain explorer, nearly 100,000 transactions have occurred as of 5:04am UTC Sept. 3, with a peak activity of 132,000 transactions being set on Aug. 25. Activity on the Shibarium network since inception. Source: Shibarium.io While network activity has surged, the total value locked (TVL) on the Shibarium network has yet to surge in response. At the time of publication S...

ARB price to $2? Ethereum L2 rival Arbitrum will double in April, fractal suggests

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ARB's price trajectory looks similar to MATIC after its market debut when MATIC rose 1,350% after facing a brutal selloff in its early days of trading. The price of Arbitrum (ARB) has dropped by nearly 20% a week after establishing its record high at $1.60 on March 23. However, the Ethereum layer-2 token looks set to resume its uptrend in the coming weeks. Polygon price fractal The cues for a bullish Arbitrum token could be traced back to its Ethereum L2 rival Polygon's market debut. MATIC started trading on Binance on April 26, 2019, at $0.0026 per token. MATIC/USD rallied nearly 300% to reach $0.0105 on the same day before wiping out 70% of those gains in a market correction by May 9, 2019. It regained its upside momentum afterward, rallying by nearly 1,350% to $0.045 on May 21, 2019.   MATIC/USDT four-hour price chart. Source: TradingView/Mac The price trajectory reflects a recurring phenomenon involving the launch of digital tokens with seemingly strong fundamental backin...