In a recent tweet, Shiba Inu’s official X account reveals that SOU is now live. SOU, short for “Shib Owes You,” is a chain $NFT intended as a good faith effort to support affected Shibarium users with payouts, donations, and occasional rewards.
In a 2025 year-end post, Shiba Inu developer Kaal Dhairya introduced this system, revealing his commitment to ensuring that any Shiba Inu-related activity is aimed at healing Shibarium users.
In the “Shib Owes You” system, each affected Shibarium user has an SOU $NFT – a verifiable overview of what exactly the Shiba Inu ecosystem owes them. This is cryptographic proof that users own a claim, permanently recorded on the Ethereum blockchain, where no one can manipulate it or make it disappear.
SOU is live
Introducing SOU (Shib Owes You), an onchain $NFT built as a good faith effort to support affected users with payouts, donations, and occasional rewards.
Transparent. Negotiable. On a chain.
You can transfer it, split it, merge it or trade it on marketplaces.Claim your… pic.twitter.com/ONyO8OitJQ
– Shib (@Shibtoken) February 16, 2026
Each SOU maintains a principal amount, the value owed to a specific user. When payouts occur, the principal goes down, as does when donations come in from the community.
The entire system, including coins, payouts, donations and transfers, was audited by Hexens, which revealed that the audit is now complete.
In a recent tweet, Hexens revealed a security review of the new SOU (Shib Owes You) contracts that include a secondary $NFT market for recovery and refunds after the Shibarium hack.
The assessment focused on the logic of asset recovery, reimbursement flows, $NFT mechanics, access controls and general security of the fund.
The Shiba Inu community responded to the recent update on the SOU, including Shiba Inu Chief Ambassador Shytoshi Kusama, who praised the team’s work.
“Good job guys for getting this out, Kaal Dhairya and the team,” said Kusama.
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The crypto market is largely in the red during the early Tuesday session. At the time of writing, SHIB is down 2.36% in the past 24 hours to $0.000006431 and up 7% weekly.
Markets are reacting ahead of Wednesday’s FOMC minutes, which will provide insights into the latest interest rate decision and future monetary policy.
Investors also expect more slowed economic data this week, including the December personal consumption expenditure index, the Federal Reserve’s preferred inflation gauge, on Friday.
Shiba Inu retreated after a sharp rise to $0.00000724 on February 14, with the next support now at $0.00000575.