On July 2nd, Kronos Advanced Technologies Inc (OTC: KNOS), a publicly traded company in the United States, announced its decision to accept SHIB as a payment method for its air purifiers. Kronos, which is understood to be involved in the development, manufacture and distribution of air purification and filtration systems, said in a press release that the move made it "the first publicly traded company to accept SHIB tokens". Kronos said there were about 1.38 million Shiba Inu wallet holders worldwide by 2024.