Shiba Inu developer Kaal Dhairya broke months of silence on social media platform X, responding to speculation about the maintenance costs of the Shibarium Layer 2 network. Previously, a user cited the case of the Ethereum Layer 2 network Blast shutting down due to high operating costs, asking who would bear the maintenance costs for Shibarium. Dhairya replied, "Yours truly." This response indicates that the Shibarium project has not been abandoned, but it did not provide specific funding amounts, involved entities, or details of the long-term funding structure. The Shibarium network has recently undergone infrastructure updates, including RPC endpoint migration and chain re-indexing.