ConsenSys: 17% of American crypto investors invested in the SHIB memcoin
Analysts at ConsenSys, created by Ethereum co-founder Joseph Lubin, conducted a survey of 1,018 people living in the United States. Half of the survey participants said that they had never bought cryptocurrencies, the remaining 50% said that they already had experience investing in this new asset class. Of these, 31% previously bought digital assets but then decided to sell, while 20% still own.
Researchers have noted the most preferred cryptocurrencies for investment among American crypto investors. The honorable first place went to Bitcoin (58%), in second place was Ether (37%), and third place went to DOGE (26%). The top five also included the Binance cryptocurrency (22%) and the USDC stablecoin (18%).
Of particular interest to investors is the SHIB memtoken, which currently ranks tenth in terms of market capitalization among all crypto assets. 17% of the surveyed investors invested in these tokens. Over the week, SHIB grew by more than 250%, reaching $0.00004567. However, then the rate corrected, and now the coin is trading at $$0.00003275.
