Dogecoin (CRYPTO: DOGE) and Shiba Inu (CRYPTO: SHIB) soared up over 11% and 8%, respectively, on Wednesday before running into groups of sellers that knocked both cryptos down to near flat.
Shiba Inu received a boost on a shout out from Ethereum (CRYPTO: ETH) co-founder Vitalik Buterin on Twitter Wednesday morning.
Buterin, who helped to fund the scholarships of some students entering AI Existential Safety PhD programs this year through selling some of his stake in the crypto, said the Shiba Inu community made the fellowships possible.
Buterin donated some of the funds from the 50 trillion Shiba Inu tokens that were gifted to him by the crypto’s developers to fund the scholarships.
Buterin’s mention of Shiba Inu wasn’t enough to help the crypto hold its morning gains. The crypto sector pulled back due to Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC) retracing from its high-of-day, while Dogecoin held up slightly …
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