History

Back in Time

PepeCoin was originally launched in 2016 by a group of gigabrained crypto OG's. It was originally launched using its own proof-of-work blockchain network — click here to see the project's original launch tweet from 2016.

Due to controversy surrounding the Pepe the Frog meme after the 2016 presidential election, a handful of exchanges forcefully renamed the Pepecoin project with the ticker "Memetic" on their platform, to be politically correct. At the time, the project was the only other memecoin except for Dogecoin and quickly grew in popularity. In 2017, it even attracted the attention of Vitalik Buterin himself — click here to see his tweet.

After several years of operating its own blockchain network, the Pepecoin project decided to migrate to the Ethereum blockchain to take advantage of EVM smart contracts and DEX platforms where their ticker could not be arbitrarily changed. A group of opportunistic individuals saw the Pepecoin migration announcements and frontran it by deploying the $PEPE token that many of you know today — even going as far as to steal the original PepeCoin logo, until they were forced to remove it due to copyright infringement.

Vindication!

Fortunately, the OG $PEPECOIN team were no strangers to injustice. After all, they are battle-hardened crypto OGs who survived the Great Meme War of 2016. So rather than wallowing in their sorrows, they embarked on a journey to reclaim what is rightfully theirs by devving their way to the top.

Since then, they have released:

  • PEPEOS: A web application inspired by vintage operating systems

  • Pepe Paint: A unique draw-to-NFT platform and marketplace that empowers artists to create and monetize their talent

  • Prometheus Testnet for BASEDAI: The first testnet to establish the BASED decentralized architecture

  • KEK BOT (alpha): An advanced AI trading engine that converts natural language into automated trades and rewards users for training

… with more on the way!

The Final Battle…

PepeCoin is disrupting the well-oiled influencer machine that churns out copypasta tokens to dump on unsuspecting average joes. Instead, they are demonstrating that memecoins can and should be coupled with innovation and meaningful utility. Now it is up to you to decide what kind of future you want to see. You can either support the status quo by keeping the influencer assembly line running, or you can be part of history by joining them on their journey to becoming the first memecoin to be simultaneously considered a top-5 network.

The #Pepening is inevitable.