Pepe Unchained ($PEPU) is preparing for what could be the biggest exchange launch of the year, having raised over $40 million in presale funding.
For those yet to participate, there are still 19 days left until the ICO closes its doors for good.
The project is causing a huge buzz as investors take note of its innovative use case: building the first Pepe-themed Ethereum layer 2 blockchain. The chain will launch soon after the presale ends.
With Bitcoin approaching the $100K milestone, the market is expected to generate a lot of new attention in the coming weeks, presenting a perfect launch environment for this new project to emerge.
Investors must act fast
The Pepe Unchained presale countdown is on.
It will end in 19 days, following which the team has revealed that $PEPU will be listed on tier-1 exchanges.
Right now, investors can buy $PEPU at a fixed presale price of $0.01295, but the exchange launch will be when supply and demand forces come into play, and the price could start to explode.
And with over $40 million raised during the token presale, it’s clear that there is real demand for Pepe Unchained.
Once it is listed on centralized exchanges, it will become available to investors who could not buy during the presale, opening a new demand stream that could bolster its price.
As to how far it could go, 99Bitcoins analyst Umar Khan recently said it could 100x.
It remains to be seen if $PEPU can reach that high, but its presale success and innovative use case indicate that it’s on the right path.
Pepe Unchained is 100 times faster than Ethereum
The “Pepe Chain” aims to be Ethereum’s new home for meme coins.
It’s a layer 2 blockchain that is interconnected yet modularized from the broader Ethereum ecosystem, enabling it to optimize meme coin trading.
The network offers heightened transaction capabilities, 100x faster and a lot cheaper than using the Ethereum main network.
But Pepe Unchained is not just launching a blockchain; it’s also launching multiple apps and tools.
Notably, they’re creating “Pepe Pump Pad,” which is similar to Solana’s meme coin generator Pump.fun.
Through Pepe Pump Pad, everyday people can launch meme coins on the Ethereum ecosystem in seconds and without coding.
Pump.fun is how many of Solana’s top meme coins like Goatseus Maximus, Peanut the Squirrel, and FWOG launched.
But Pepe Pump Pad offers the unique advantage of benefiting from Ethereum’s deeper liquidity, with the network boasting a total value locked (TVL) of $65 billion, over 6 times higher than Solana’s.
The Pepe Chain will also come with a dedicated Ethereum bridge, a block explorer, a decentralized exchange, staking, and more.
Will Coinbase list $PEPU before Binance?
The meme coin sector finds itself at the epicenter of an arms race between heavyweight centralized exchanges – which is good news for Pepe Unchained.
Three of the most popular platforms for retail investors – Coinbase, Binance, and Robinhood – have all extended their joke token offerings in recent months.
They’re adding meme coins because they know that’s exactly what retail investors understand and want to buy. The more they offer, the more chance they have of attracting new customers.
Binance has made several surprise listings of lower market cap meme coins like PNUT, NEIRO, and ACT, while Coinbase and Robinhood have stuck with large caps so far.
But that might be about to change.
Bloomberg recently published an article revealing that Coinbase will list more meme coins in the Trump era, thanks to his friendliness toward crypto and the deregulatory headwind that’s expected to bring with it.
Tom Duff Gordon, vice president of international policy at Coinbase, told Bloomberg that Coinbase would be able to “do more with some of those projects and some of those tokens that we weren’t able to offer.”
He continued, “We’re talking more about some of the smaller tokens, some of the meme coin tokens.”
And right now, there’s no other emerging meme coin with as much attention as Pepe Unchained.
So the question becomes, who will list it first: Coinbase, Binance, or Robinhood?
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