Shiba Inu lead ambassador Shytoshi Kusama changed his X bio earlier in September to the single word "Polish" and changed his location to "close." He has not posted or interacted on X since May 13, leaving the SHIB community to interpret the update. The wording could refer to final development work, but no link to Shiba Inu or an upcoming announcement has been established. Kusama has frequently used X updates to tease projects and forthcoming developments. In February 2026, he described an independent AI-powered relationship platform designed to help users identify trends, friction points and compatibility risks; that project is one possible context for the profile change, though no connection has been confirmed. Separately, Shibarium, Shiba Inu's layer-2 network, received an RPC (remote procedure call) update after PR #8699 was merged into ethereum-lists/chains. SHIB burning also continued, with 4.37 million tokens burned in 24 hours and 133.88 million over seven days. The daily burn rate rose 301%, while SHIB fell 1.57% over 24 hours to $0.0000052 as the broader crypto market traded lower.