The arrival of a payment card linked to SHIB, offering fee‑free spending up to $400 monthly and promotional rewards for early adopters, raises the central question: can real utility drive the price? Coverage ties that initiative to ecosystem developments — such as Shibarium and strategic partnerships — but the market has shown a limited reaction, with recent declines putting immediate impact into perspective. The focus is whether real-world usability can shift sentiment despite near-term weakness.
The card stems from a collaboration with Bitget Wallet and promises point‑of‑sale conversion with promotional zero costs for certain thresholds, an offer designed to increase SHIB usability. That move is complemented by efforts on the technical layer: Shibarium, the layer‑2 solution, and announced synergies with networks like Unity, all aimed at reducing friction and fostering payments and practical applications.
Nevertheless, the announced utility clashes with on‑chain and market data. The Total Value Locked (TVL) in Shibarium presents residual growth, which some analysts describe as a structural adoption deficit; a high burn rate can be deflationary, but without sustained demand or dApp activity, that mechanism loses capacity to support a genuine price rally.
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The market response has been cold: SHIB recorded a 4.6% drop in 24 hours and 10.5% in the week, suggesting that the card did not act as an immediate catalyst. The essential difficulty is the circulating supply: 589.53 trillion tokens. For SHIB to reach $0.001 its market capitalization would have to approach nearly $590,000 billion, a high threshold compared to the current crypto universe; reaching $1 would, in practice, be unattainable without a mass burn of historical scale. As a summary of this skepticism, some analysts were blunt: “almost unequivocally, no”, regarding extreme price targets.
Collected projections place 2025 estimates in a range of $0.00001 to $0.00010; 2030 between $0.000019 and $0.000712; 2040 with plausible highs up to $0.01765; and 2050, in optimistic scenarios, up to $0.089. Those calculations underscore the tension between improved utility and the inertia imposed by a gigantic supply.
Practical impact for traders and treasuries: the card can reduce operational costs in one‑off payments and improve spending liquidity for active holders, but it does not eliminate exposure to volatility nor resolve macro‑structural risks. For treasury strategies, the key variable will remain the trajectory of TVL, dApp activity and the effectiveness of burn policies.
The card adds a real spending layer to SHIB, but by itself it does not change the limitations imposed by supply nor guarantee that sentiment will change sustainably. The value transformation will depend on a series of concatenated developments: tangible increase of TVL in Shibarium, organic adoption of the card and sustained reductions of the circulating supply.
