Don't worry about the "shrinkage" in Shibarium data; security upgrades and privacy technology are the real highlights.

[Crypto World] Shiba Inu’s Layer 2 network, Shibarium, has been making big moves recently—the data on its blockchain explorer, Shibariumscan, suddenly “shrunk,” now showing 2.38 million blocks and 168 million transactions. Don’t panic, this isn’t a bug.

Here’s what’s going on: the team just completed a round of security upgrades and is now re-running the index while also taking the old public RPC interface offline. There’s also a notice on the explorer page stating that the blockchain is still being indexed, so the current numbers might not be accurate.

But what’s even more noteworthy is the big move coming up—Shibarium plans to launch a major privacy upgrade in Q2 2026. This time, they’ll be using Zama’s encryption technology to achieve full on-chain privacy protection. It looks like Shiba Inu is planning to bring something new to the Layer 2 game.