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title: "Shiba Inu (SHIB) price and news"
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# Shiba Inu (SHIB) price and news

Sampled market data; prices and returns do not verify news or establish causation.

- Price: $0.000005179; 24h: +4.43%
- Market source / sampled at (UTC): Gate · USDT / 21/10/2026, 09:33
- Events received in 30 days: 0

## Why is Shiba Inu up 4.4% today?

As of 21/10/2026, 09:33 (UTC), SHIB was sampled at $0.000005, +4.43% over 24 hours (Gate · USDT). For the closed-hour 24h window: SHIB largely moved with the market. SHIB rose further than this on 2 of the past 29 days. Shiba Inu moved up, largely in line with Bitcoin given its usual sensitivity, and most other tracked coins moved the same way. No recent report about the coin explains the move, so its cause is unresolved. Bitcoin coverage from the day included reports from Bitcoin Magazine, Cointelegraph and The Block.

- Versus Bitcoin: +3.97% / BTC +1.94%; +1.1 pts left after BTC × its hourly beta 1.48
- Versus the past month: 2 of the past 29 days rose further; Closed-hour 24h move +3.97%, 2.1× its prior 30-day median of 1.9%.
- 30-day range: 17.4% below the high · 8.0% above the low; From hourly highs and lows on the same venue
- Other tracked coins: 17 of 17 moved the same way
- 24h volume: 0.7×; of its prior 30-day daily average

Computed 21/10/2026, 08:00 (UTC) from OKX · USDT hourly candles; this window and venue may differ from the live ticker above.

### Open questions

- Whether any project-level announcement or on-chain development involving Shiba Inu accompanied the move would be settled by an official statement from the project or on-chain data.
- Whether exchange notices or flow data point to a coin-specific driver would be settled by exchange announcements or on-chain transfer data.

## Prior 30-day hourly baseline

- Coverage: 99.9% (719/720)
- Median absolute hourly return: +0.33%
- 99th percentile of absolute hourly returns: +2.42%
- BTC beta: 1.48
- Source / cutoff (UTC): OKX · USDT / 21/10/2026, 09:34
Hourly statistics cannot be compared directly with minute moves. Missing or stale baselines are not estimated.

## Recent publication-ready events and observed returns

Returns start after site detection. Each linked event records its actual sampled intervals, venue, quote currency and news sources. Missing windows remain unavailable; publisher coverage is not independent verification.

| Event | Evidence | 5m | 1h | 24h | 5m difference from BTC |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |

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