60 percent instead of 50: Binance raises what Shiba Inu counts for as collateral

The information provided in this article is for informational purposes only and does not constitute financial advice. Cryptocurrency investments carry a high degree of risk. Always conduct your own research.Binance has counted Shiba Inu at 60 percent instead of 50 percent as collateral since October 23. The step enlarges the credit line in cross margin; it changes nothing about the liquidation threshold.On the record: Binance raised the collateral ratio for Shiba Inu from 50 to 60 percent on October 23, 2026 at 06:00 UTC. Our assessment follows further down: a higher ratio enlarges the credit line, not the depth of the market behind it. Anyone holding Shiba Inu in a cross-margin account at Binance can borrow more against it since Friday morning than in the week before. $1,000 of posted SHIB now counts as $600 of collateral value instead of $500. The coin itself has not changed: on Saturday evening SHIB traded at $0.00000488, roughly 4.0 percent below the level 24 hours earlier, at a market value of $2.88 billion (market data from CoinGecko, as of October 24, retrieved that evening). The change is not limited to SHIB. Binance made it for seven assets at once, three of them in the sa...