Original author: Deep Tide TechFlow
As BTC stopped falling, the Meme sector that had been dormant for a while finally couldn’t hold back and started to rebound. The first to lead the charge is the top memecoin $Pepe, and this time, along with $Pepe, many “family members” are rebounding.
This year, memecoin fever has continued to spread. A single Pepe is no longer enough to satisfy the market’s speculative needs. Therefore, various small frogs that were previously undivided and collectively referred to as Pepe have been individually selected by the market and transformed into various new memecoins.
Deep Tide TechFlow has compiled a list of the currently popular Pepe family member tokens in the market, taking you deep into the original frog meme culture.
Keep this Pepe family tree, just in case the “frog market” comes one day.
PS: Since the market has not yet reached a consensus on the Pepe family image, the introduction in this article is the project’s Twitter account with the highest current popularity of the Meme image.
Pick your hero and start losing money
Pepe
Official Twitter:
https://x.com/pepecoineth
Contract address: 0x6982508145454Ce325dDbE47a25d4ec3d2311933
As the most classic character in frog meme culture, $Pepe is also the earliest frog memecoin to become popular in the currency circle, so much so that it has even exceeded the expectations of most people. There is no need to go into details about Pepecoin’s wealth story. From the perspective of meme culture, Pepe is the earliest character in the frog family, created by cartoonist Matt Furie. Pepe first appeared in Furie’s comic “Boy’s Club” in 2005, and then gradually became a widely circulated meme uploaded by 4chan forum users.
Now, Pepe has become a well-known IP that cannot be ignored in the world of cryptocurrency. From its birth to becoming the leader of Memecoin, the market-favored $Pepe took less than a year.
The token with the same name Pepecoin
Official Twitter:
https://x.com/pepecoins
Contract address: 0xA9E8aCf069C58aEc8825542845Fd754e41a9489A
In addition, after the fire of $Pepe last year, many tokens with the same name quickly followed. Among them, $Pepecoin seems to have not simply jumped on the bandwagon. In its official article, the team mentioned that they had planned to launch a virtual currency with the Pepe image as early as 2016, but for various reasons, it failed to be implemented. It wasn’t until 2023 when $Pepe became popular again that the team’s enthusiasm was rekindled, and the team followed suit to launch the coin after the popularity of $Pepe. The “orthodoxy” of the right to issue a coin for the “frog Pepe” IP seems to have been controversial all along.
According to our investigation, the pool of $Pepecoin is relatively large. When $Pepe skyrocketed at the beginning of the year, $Pepecoin also surged, and it has not yet returned to zero (but has been greatly reduced).
Obviously, the market is no longer satisfied with speculating on a single frog meme. The wealth effect and IP influence brought about by $Pepe have spread to other frog meme images.
Smug Pepe
It is worth mentioning that due to the slow infiltration of frog meme culture compared to the hype of the crypto market, Sumg Pepe has always been regarded as the icon of $Pepe token. Even now, the official Twitter account of Pepecoin still uses the avatar of Sumg Pepe, which also reflects that most people are not so concerned about the segmented frog culture. The specific frog image is not a key concern of the speculative market.
After searching around, we found that there is currently no unified consensus on the speculation of the Smug Pepe image. There are various Smug Pepe-related Twitter accounts, and the liquidity of meme coin pools is low, so there is a higher risk of participation. Interested readers can delve deeper and stay tuned.
MonkaS
Project Twitter:
https://x.com/MonkasErc20
Contract address: 0xdc7ac5d5d4a9c3b5d8f3183058a92776dc12f4f3
MonkaS originated from Twitch TV and is derived from the Pepe image’s secondary creation expression symbol. Its meaning is “shocked and sweating Pepe,” and it is usually used in tense moments in game live broadcasts.
As an image closest to Pepe, MonkaS has also been speculated as an independent IP for a long time. It wasn’t until I saw someone CX MonkaS that I understood that it wasn’t the same as the original Pepe in terms of meme culture. (This can also be considered as a reflection of Memecoin’s propagation of meme culture.)
Apustaja (Apu)
Project Twitter:
https://x.com/ApusCoin
Contract address: 0x594daad7d77592a2b97b725a7ad59d7e188b5bfa
The sketchy version of the young frog Apustaja is also one of the popular frog meme images. Since its debut in 2016, it has become very popular, and the internet has gradually spawned many Apustaja meme images. People are happy to project real-world life onto the image of Apustaja, and it is often seen appearing in various real-world life scenes. Many cryptocurrency projects also favor creating memes with Apustaja as the theme image.
Currently, $Apu has been listed on the Bybit exchange.
Ashbie
Project Twitter:
https://x.com/ashbiemooncoinx
Contract address: 0x789E29153A3c5E6598368716f8C146B5eBEfF969
When talking about Apu, it is necessary to introduce Apu’s girlfriend Ashbie. At some point, the netizens arranged a cute girlfriend Ashbie for the popular image Apu. The internet gradually began to present various memes of Apu and Ashbie dating, and this somewhat contrasting combination did not make people feel uncomfortable. Instead, it seemed unexpectedly appropriate. Apu and Ashbie were once considered the representative figures of the “This could be us” pure love meme by netizens.
It is worth mentioning that before the $Ashbie token was launched, the Dev gave free airdrops to users who left their addresses under the tweet. At the highest point of the token price, the single account airdrop was worth nearly $2500.
Peepo
Project Twitter:
https://x.com/PEEPOCOIN_ARMY
Contract address: 0xaada04204e9e1099daf67cf3d5d137e84e41cf41
Peepo is also a member of the Pepe family and one of the young frog meme images. Most people’s knowledge of Peepo probably comes from the various emoticons on WeChat. After the frog IP token was launched, the community’s enthusiasm for $Peepo has been good, and the project is relatively active on Twitter.
Currently, $Peepo has been listed on the Bitget exchange.
Groyper
Project Twitter:
https://x.com/GroyperOnETH
Contract address: 0x6942806d1b2d5886d95ce2f04314ece8eb825833
Groyper first appeared on the 4chan forum, and the specific reason and reference have yet to be traced (it just caught on and became popular). It is worth mentioning that this frog image with its hand on its chin is rarely used to represent “wisdom,” but more often used by far-right and new-right groups or individuals on social networks as a personal profile picture.
Although speculation is good, protecting the principal is more important
After distinguishing between the Pepe family members, we will no longer feel the messy feeling of “not feeling like it but not being able to specify where it doesn’t feel like it” when using various Pepe emoticons in the future.
However, most of the concept tokens of the Pepe family are still in the initial stage of speculative growth, with insufficient consensus and poor liquidity, and there is a possibility of Rug. Please participate with caution.
Perhaps there are more frog family memecoins waiting to be discovered.
