According to Foresight News, according to CoinDesk, Kaaldhairya, an anonymous developer of Shibarium, the Layer2 solution launched by Shiba Inu, responded that "Shibarium chain uses the same chain ID as Rinia Testnet chain", saying that "few chain IDs are randomly selected - 417 (Alpha), 517 (Staging), 917 (pre-pod/beta), and these chains were not registered anywhere at the time. I made a mistake and did not recheck when the puppynet network was launched. The new version of the BETA network will be redeployed with a new chain ID."

In addition, crypto security engineer Andrew Angrisani explained the similarities between Shibarium and Rinia codes by saying that both Shibarium and Rinia copied open source code for a block explorer called Blockscout. Angrisani speculated that the Testnet chain Dev will launch a Firechain ICO called Shib Killer on March 31, which may be a free marketing strategy.