The pseudonymous SHIB marketing lead, known to the crypto community as Lucie, has published several tweets today, in which she criticized those crypto users who either hate and criticize SHIB or are using it to attract attention to their own tokens.

In one of those posts, she mentioned the lead developer Shytoshi Kusama, praising him for everything he has done to get SHIB where it is now.

Lucie praises Kusama

In her tweet, the SHIB marketing expert has underscored the roles that have been performed by Shytoshi Kusama and the top developer Kaal Dhairya and all the tremendous amount of work done by them to allow Shiba Inu to succeed.

Lucie reminded the community that SHIB has succeeded while overcoming multiple hurdles and headwinds, as well as opposing haters with all their “attacks, insults, nastiness and lies every day.”

The key character features that help the SHIB team continue moving forward are “resilience, accountability and action.”

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Lucie’s warning to dishonest SHIB partners

Lucie also published a warning to, as she put it, “so-called SHIB partners,” accusing them of “throwing mud at the SHIB team, chasing cookie points,” and thus promoting their own coins to the SHIB community.

She added that some of those “partners” even moved sums around $15,000 monthly into a “sub-DAO,” but she claimed that they are doing that to fud Shiba Inu and its initiatives.

Lucie stated that SHIB cannot be stopped by such dirty players. The SHIB team keeps building new products and improving old ones, she said.

“The SHIB ecosystem will keep building, growing and pushing forward, no matter how many bad actors try to drag it down.”

Tether has announced it will wind down USDT on five lesser-used blockchains after usage on those networks wanes.

Redemptions and token minting on Omni Layer, Bitcoin Cash’s Simple Ledger Protocol, Kusama, EOS, and Algorand are set to stop on Sept. 1, 2025. Remaining tokens are to be frozen on the same day, according to a statement.

Together, the five networks carry only a sliver of USDT’s roughly $156 billion float. Tether says the usage of USDT on these networks, which it touts as playing a role in the firm’s early growth, has declined “significantly” over the past two years.

“Sunsetting support for these legacy chains allows us to focus on platforms that offer greater scalability, developer activity, and community engagement — all key components for driving the next wave of stablecoin adoption,” Tether CEO Paolo Ardoino said in the statement.

The firm will redirect its focus to Layer 2 networks such as the Lightning Network and to newer blockchains that promise faster settlement and richer developer tooling.

Tether has asked its customers holding USDT on the five networks to redeem their holdings as soon as possible or request issuance of their tokens on a supported blockchain. Token holders can migrate their tokens through blockchain bridges or exchanges.

The lion’s share of Tether’s $156 billion fiat is currently circulating on Tron and Ethereum, which together make up over 95% of the total. Solana is the only other network with more than 1% of USDT’s supply in circulation, according to RWA.xyz data.