Pepe Coin has risen by over 270% in the past 24 hours, with its price of $0.000000265475 representing a massive 1,000,000% gain since its launch on Sunday.
The launch of PEPE comes amid the emergence of a new market trend for meme tokens modeled after Pepe the Frog, a cartoonish, humanoid frog that's popular within certain online circles.
With PEPE's price rising so strongly since its launch over the weekend, it's clear that many traders are buying into the token, even if it has no real fundamentals beyond its apparent virality.
As such, it may end falling as quickly as it has risen in the past few days, with other meme tokens doing a better job of offering actual utility and value.
As far as PEPE's chart is concerned, the coin may have peaked for now, with its relative strength index (purple) beginning to slide in the past hour from 70, which indicates overbuying.
However, it's also clear that the meme token's support level (green) has been rising steadily since it launched, meaning that it continues to consolidate around ever-higher bands.
This is positive for PEPE, since even if it does see a dip in the coming hours or days (which is probably inevitable), it may be able to resume its impressive climbs.
What's impressive about PEPE is that it accounts for trading volume of just over $86 million on Uniswap, where it's being traded mostly with Wrapped Ethereum (WETH).
This suggests considerable interest in the token, which has a total maximum supply of 420 trillion, an 'amusing' nod to 4/20 cannabis culture.
Not much else is known about the coin, which has no connection to Matt Furie, the original creator of the Pepe the Frog meme.
It's also not known who has actually created the PEPE token, something which could potentially
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