• The Shiba Inu network has partnered with Unity, a telecom network, to give real-world utility to the SHIB token.
  • This comes as the tension among SHIB investors is rising, with the token now recording a 9.4% loss in the past month.

Shiba Inu (SHIB), the second-largest meme coin that was launched in 2020, has announced a partnership with Unity Nodes, a blockchain-based mobile edge network designed to enhance telecom infrastructure verification.

Over the years, SHIB has expanded beyond memes, introducing initiatives like Shibarium, its own Layer 2 network, and metaverse applications. Now, its partnership with Unity Nodes is one that ties Shiba Inu to real-world telecom infrastructure.

With Unity Nodes, telecom network verification, covering mobile carriers, signal quality, and routing, is achieved through a distributed node system consisting of Switch Nodes, Validation Nodes, and Earth Nodes. All verification results are recorded on-chain, ensuring immutability and transparency, and can be accessed via API by carriers and customers.

The telecom and connectivity sector, valued at approximately US$2 trillion, is a massive opportunity for blockchain integration, essentially a case of “crypto meets infrastructure.”

How Does the Community Stand to Benefit?

Through this partnership, SHIB tokens will be accepted as payment for purchasing Unity Nodes licenses via a dedicated custom gateway. Buyers who pay with SHIB may receive bonus incentives, such as an additional 5% in extra licenses, along with exclusive Shiba Inu–branded NFTs tied to their purchases.

Node operators, those running Unity Nodes licenses, can earn rewards directly in SHIB or lease their licenses to generate passive income, creating a multi-path earning model that supports self-operation, leasing, or hybrid approaches.

The program’s limited issuance of approximately 6,000 licenses adds a layer of scarcity, potentially enhancing early-adopter advantages. Additionally, each $5,000 license includes locked token allocations of $1,875 in both MNTx and WMTx, held for 24 months as part of the incentive structure.

Key Investor Concerns

The Shiba Inu investor community is growing increasingly anxious amid renewed fears of a potential collapse of the popular meme-turned-utility token. In the past 24 hours, Shiba Inu recorded a trading volume of $126 million, marking a sharp 27.5% decrease.

The token now trades 88.69% below its all-time high, hovering near the $0.000009732 mark, just below the $0.0000108 resistance barrier.

As CNF explained in a report , investor unease deepened following a September 13 exploit on Shibarium, Shiba Inu’s layer-2 network. Developers described the incident as a “coordinated attack” in which the perpetrator used a flash loan to acquire 4.6 million BONE tokens and subsequently gained access to validator signing keys.

While the stolen tokens remain locked under Validator 1, the SHIB team launched an investigation in collaboration with Hexens, Seal 911, and PeckShield.

Lucie, Shiba Inu’s marketing lead, addressed community concerns directly: “Projects spend millions on marketing only to vanish in a year or two. They change blockchains, rebrand, and fade away. The SHIB ecosystem took every hit, but it’s still here, still building, still fighting. We don’t need to mention other projects to have something to say.”

Lucie compared Shiba Inu’s journey to Coca-Cola’s early struggles, noting that in 1886, Coca-Cola sold just nine drinks a day and even operated at a loss in its first year. Yet today, it serves 1.9 billion drinks daily in over 200 countries.

Despite market turbulence, the SHIB holder base has surpassed 1.55 million. As of now, Shiba Inu’s market capitalisation stands at $5.74 billion, with the token showing a notable 8% increase over the past week, outperforming the global crypto market average gain of 0.6%.