Shiba Inu price slips below $0.0000045 as SHIB falls twice as hard as Bitcoin

Shiba Inu left the zone around $0.0000045 on Saturday, a level that had caught every pullback since Wednesday. At midday on Saturday SHIB trades at about $0.00000449, roughly €0.00000402, which is 2.2 percent below Friday midday. Over 30 days the token has lost 16.9 percent, while Bitcoin fell 8.2 percent over the same period. The figures come from CoinGecko.

What is established: the break happened in a weekend market with very little turnover, and it coincides with the days in which the one-year holding period expires for purchases made in November 2025. Our assessment follows further down. The price slide alone decides nothing yet; for investors in Germany, the purchase date matters most this weekend.

Shiba Inu price at Saturday midday: $0.00000449, just below the zone

Saturday started quietly. Into the morning, SHIB moved between $0.00000450 and $0.00000453 in the SHIB-USDT pair on the OKX exchange. Around 11 a.m. German time the price slipped below $0.0000045 and has not come back since. The 24-hour high stands at $0.00000461, the low at $0.00000448, almost exactly where the price sits now.

The move is small, but it hits a level we have reported on twice this week. On Wednesday the topic was inflows to exchanges and whether $0.0000045 would hold. On Friday evening, after the US jobs report, SHIB still stood at $0.0000046, and our article on it described the calm as thinly supported.

Held since Wednesday, lost on Saturday: what changed at the SHIB support zone

Three things have shifted since the last article. First, the price: from $0.0000046 on Friday evening to $0.00000449 at Saturday midday, a drop of just over 2 percent. Second, the nature of the test. On Thursday afternoon, according to OKX data, SHIB briefly fell as low as $0.00000444, but closed the hour back at $0.00000448 and stood at $0.00000452 an hour later. Buyers stepped in immediately. On Saturday that quick rebound is missing: the price has been below the level for about two hours without any visible recovery attempt.

Third, the distance to the 20-day line. The average of the closing prices over the past 20 days is $0.00000483, about 7.6 percent above the current price. The longer averages are further away still: the 50-day line at $0.00000528, the 200-day line at $0.00000514. We calculated all three values from CoinGecko's daily data.

SHIB weekend trading: a fraction of Thursday's volume on OKX

A look at hourly turnover explains why a slide on Saturday reads differently from one on Thursday. In the SHIB-USDT spot pair on OKX, tokens worth roughly $22,000 to $91,000 changed hands per hour between midnight and noon on Saturday. On Thursday afternoon, when the price briefly fell to $0.00000444, the strongest hour saw about $549,000, with $260,000 to $347,000 in the hours before and after.

Across all trading venues, CoinGecko shows a 24-hour trading volume of about $38.5 million, after $57.8 million and $63.3 million in the preceding daily readings. In such thin trading, a single larger sale is enough to push through a level. Conversely, the price can be back above it just as quickly on Monday, when volume returns. Anyone who wants to trade should therefore check the order book and the spread between bid and ask at their exchange before placing an order. Which regulated providers list SHIB and what they charge is shown in our crypto exchange comparison.

SHIB vs Bitcoin and Dogecoin: 16.9 against 8.2 percent in 30 days

Saturday is only the latest snapshot of a longer stretch of weakness. Since the start of October, Shiba Inu has lost roughly twice as much as Bitcoin. Over 30 days SHIB is down 16.9 percent, Bitcoin 8.2 percent. Over seven days the ratio is similar: minus 4.5 percent for SHIB, minus 1.8 percent for Bitcoin, which trades at $75,781 at Saturday midday.

The parallel with the other big meme coin stands out. Dogecoin lost 17.7 percent over 30 days and sits at $0.0717. The two tokens are moving almost in lockstep, while Bitcoin cushions the decline. There is a mechanism behind this. When investors cut risk, they sell the most volatile positions first. Meme coins are at the front of that queue, because their price rests mainly on sentiment and liquidity rather than on earnings. When Bitcoin falls, they therefore often fall considerably harder.

The crypto market has been cautious for days. The Fear and Greed Index, a sentiment gauge built from volatility, volume and surveys, stood at 25 points on Saturday according to Alternative.me, in the extreme fear range. For SHIB this means that a recovery of its own, without a tailwind from Bitcoin, is hard to justify in this environment.

OKX futures market: long ratio climbs to 2.23 while the price falls

The futures market paints a picture that does not match the falling price. The ratio of accounts with long positions to accounts with short positions in the SHIB contract on OKX stood at 2.23 at Saturday midday, up from 2.14 on Friday evening. For every account betting on falling prices, there are just over two betting on a rise, and their share has grown even though the price has slipped. How this ratio is distributed across exchanges is shown in our overview of the long/short ratio.

Open positions in the SHIB perpetual contract on OKX add up to about $6.5 million. The funding rate, the fee that the long and short sides exchange every eight hours, is 0.01 percent. Extrapolated to a day, a leveraged long therefore costs about 0.03 percent. That is not much, but it shows that most speculators are still betting on a recovery. If the price keeps falling, exactly these positions come under pressure. Anyone trading with leverage should know the liquidation price of their position and not place it close to Thursday's low. Which platforms for perpetual contracts charge which fees is compared in our overview of perp DEX platforms.

SHIB price levels: $0.00000444 as Thursday's low, $0.00000411 as the yearly low

On the downside, the first level is Thursday afternoon's low at $0.00000444, only about 1 percent below the current price. Buyers last stepped in there. If it fails, the yearly low comes into view: on July 17, 2026, SHIB closed at $0.00000411. From today's level that is about 8.3 percent away. For comparison, on November 3, the day of the US election, the gap was still 10.7 percent.

On the upside, SHIB first has to get back above $0.0000046, Friday evening's level and also the high of the past 24 hours. Above that comes the 20-day line at $0.00000483. Only above the 200-day line at $0.00000514 would the picture of recent weeks genuinely turn.

Loss offsetting under Section 23 EStG: why a November 2025 purchase date matters now

For investors in Germany, this weekend has an aspect that has little to do with the chart. On November 8, 2025, SHIB cost about $0.00001004 according to CoinGecko. Anyone who bought then is roughly 55 percent down in dollar terms; in euros the calculation comes out slightly differently because of the changed exchange rate.

For tax purposes, cryptocurrencies held as private assets in Germany count as private disposal transactions under Section 23 of the German Income Tax Act. If more than one year lies between purchase and sale, a gain is tax-free. The same period also applies to losses, however: anyone who sells only after the one-year period has expired can no longer use the loss for tax purposes. Anyone who sells within the period may offset the loss against gains from other private disposal transactions in the same year, for example against a Bitcoin gain you realised within one year. Whatever remains is carried back to the previous year on request or carried forward to later years.

In concrete terms: anyone who bought SHIB on November 8, 2025 must, under the usual way of calculating the period, sell by November 8, 2026 at the latest for the sale to fall within one year. For purchases on November 7, 2025, the deadline is today, Saturday. Buying back afterwards starts a new one-year period. Whether such a sale pays off depends on whether there are gains to offset this year. Without gains, the realised loss initially only produces a carryforward. We track the political debate on the holding period continuously on our page on the status of the holding period reform.

FIFO with several SHIB purchases: which tranche counts as sold first

Many holders did not buy SHIB on a single day but in several tranches. That raises the question of which purchase counts as disposed of in a sale. According to the Federal Finance Ministry's guidance on crypto assets, the tax authorities accept the FIFO method: first in, first out, so the tokens bought first count as sold first. Anyone who bought in November 2025 and again later will, under FIFO, sell the old tranche with the heaviest losses first.

With a few dozen purchases across several exchanges and wallets, this is hard to track by hand. Tax tools import the history via an API or a CSV export and show the purchase date and the end of the holding period for each tranche. Which programs do this for German investors and what they cost is set out in our crypto tax software comparison. For larger amounts, advice from a tax adviser is also worthwhile, especially if you want to realise losses deliberately and then buy back in.

Our assessment: the thin weekend does not settle anything yet

In the newsroom's view, the slide below $0.0000045 is a warning sign but not yet a break in trend. The low turnover argues for this: at $22,000 to $91,000 per hour on OKX, little selling pressure is needed to breach the level. The persistence of the weakness argues against it. SHIB has been falling twice as fast as Bitcoin for a month, sits below all the important moving averages, and the rising long ratio shows that some speculators have not yet given up. If these positions tip over, a small break can become a bigger one. Monday is likely to be decisive, when volume returns. If SHIB is back above $0.0000046 by then, Saturday was a slip. If the price falls below $0.00000444, the yearly low becomes the issue. Nobody should open a position on sentiment alone; a total loss is possible at any time with meme coins.

Shiba Inu price: below $0.00000444, the yearly low comes into play

1. Check your purchase date. Look up in your exchange history when you bought SHIB. If the purchase dates from November 2025, the one-year period expires these days. A crypto tax tool shows you the deadlines for each tranche.
2. Set your levels. Note $0.0000046 on the upside and $0.00000444 on the downside. Anyone planning to place an order should first compare fees and spreads at the regulated crypto exchanges.
3. Limit leverage. With a long ratio of 2.23 and thin weekend trading, a wave of liquidations can quickly push the price below Thursday's low. Anyone using futures should check the liquidation price and the terms of the perp platforms.

(As of November 7, 2026. This article is not investment advice. Prices and fee structures change; check the terms with the provider before you buy.)