🐕 Year-End Letter From Developer Kaal Dhairya
The Shiba Inu project’s lead developer, Kaal Dhairya, published a detailed year-end letter acknowledging that 2025 was the toughest year in the project’s history — especially due to the Shibarium hack and leadership issues during the crisis.
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🔹 Reflection on the Past Year
Dhairya described the past months as the hardest period in Shiba Inu’s history.
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He said key leadership figures were absent when they were most needed during the hack, and he stayed to keep things going.
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🔹 Response to Speculation
The letter addressed accusations that the SHIB team hadn’t officially reported the Shibarium hack to authorities. Dhairya confirmed he has been personally interviewed by multiple federal agents, and that the official investigative process is underway.
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🔹 Technical Recovery
Technical recovery from the Shibarium bridge issue is largely complete.
New safeguards (blacklisting, 7-day delays, hardened contracts) were added, and Hexens reviewed major changes.
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📌 “Shib Owes You” (SOU) – NFT-Based Claims System
A centerpiece of the year-end message was the introduction of SOU (“Shib Owes You”), a claims system intended to make users whole after the hack:
What it is: Instead of promises in spreadsheets, users affected by the exploit will receive on-chain Ethereum NFTs that record exactly how much they are owed.
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Flexible claims: These SOU NFTs can be merged, split, transferred, or sold on marketplaces.
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Goal: Fund repayments to users by redirecting ecosystem revenue into the claims pool rather than into nonessential projects.
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🚀 New Strategic Focus for 2026
Dhairya outlined concrete shifts in project priorities going forward:
🟡 Focus on Revenue & Core Infrastructure
Projects and systems that don’t generate revenue will be paused or sunsetted.
Only initiatives expected to generate funds that can be redirected to SOU repayments and infrastructure maintenance will remain priorities.
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⚙️ Revised Tokenomics
The team plans to revisit and adjust tokenomics to ensure incentives align with the ecosystem’s sustainability and repayment efforts.
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🧱 Sunsetting Legacy Systems
Systems and processes that no longer serve the ecosystem’s future will be retired to focus energy where it matters most.
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💛 Closing Message
Dhairya emphasized that the Shiba Inu vision isn’t dead — it’s endured something very hard. Going into 2026, the project’s focus is less about hype and more about repair, focus, and sustainable building.
