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- Lucie has predicted that if SHIB takes off, the momentum will spill over and lift the rest of the tokens in the Shiba Inu ecosystem right along with it.
- These insights come as the Shiba Inu community gears up to vote for an interim president, all while celebrating its 5th anniversary.
The crypto market is heating up, and Shiba Inu’s marketing lead, Lucie, is fanning the flames. In a post on X, she highlighted that total crypto market capitalization has surged to $4.1 trillion, her cue to declare, “alt season is near.”
Still, the Altcoin Season Index sits at just 32 out of 100, showing that, for now, Bitcoin is still stealing most of the spotlight from the alts.
Lucie pushed back against recent “fudding” of Treat (TREAT), one of SHIB’s ecosystem tokens, noting its $2 million market cap. She called it “the best gift to those who bought in,” hinting that undervaluation today could mean big upside if sentiment flips.
She went on to compare Shiba Inu’s price action to the way altcoins often move in sync with Bitcoin (BTC), the largest token with a 2.3 trillion market capitalization.
“Once SHIB hits $30–50 billion, the rest will follow. Hold what you want, this eco will boom,” she said. Right now, SHIB sits at $7.7 billion market cap. Hitting her $30 billion target would mean a 295% surge, pushing the price to $0.00005091. The $50 billion goal would require a 558% jump, putting SHIB at $0.00008485.
While Lucie has been a supporter of the Shiba Inu $0.01 target, she once imagined an even higher scenario: SHIB reaching $1. To make that happen, its market cap would need to soar to $589 trillion, a figure far beyond gold’s total market cap, which hasn’t even hit $100 trillion.
The takeaway? Lucie sees SHIB as the spark that could ignite the rest of its ecosystem, including LEASH, originally designed as a rebase token tied to Dogecoin but now a standard ERC-20, BONE, the ecosystem’s governance token, and TREAT.
If history is any guide, alt seasons have often delivered triple-digit gains across the board. For now, Shiba Inu fans are taking Lucie’s message as a bullish signal to stay patient and let the ecosystem ride the market wave.
Current Market Outlook
In another post, Lucie urged developers to tread carefully when it comes to DAOs, warning that Web3 history is filled with examples of bad actors taking control. “I’ve seen cases where just 10 people ran the whole thing while calling it ‘super decentralized,’” she said.
Let’s give power to the people, not to bad actors.
Her comments come as Shiba Inu prepares for a major milestone, its first-ever elections. Project lead Shytoshi Kusama announced that the SHIB DAO will soon elect an interim president to guide the ecosystem’s evolution into a network state.
He added that the ideal candidate should be a SHIB whale, someone with enough stake to be deeply invested in the project’s success.
The announcement, arriving just days after Shiba Inu celebrated its 5th anniversary, marks a significant step in its transformation from a playful memecoin to a more structured and ambitious crypto ecosystem.
At press time, SHIB was trading at $0.00001317, up 0.83% over the past 24 hours, with $247 million in daily trading volume, 3% higher than the previous day. Despite being down 85.49% from its all-time high of $0.00008616 set over four years ago, optimism remains.
The community believes that sustained token burns, Shibarium adoption, and favorable market conditions could eventually fuel a breakout.
