Pepe Unchained Launches Grants for Developers to Build on Upcoming Layer 2

cryptonews.com:

After surpassing $12.6 million in presale funding on Wednesday, Pepe Unchained ($PEPU) made another splash with a developer grant announcement on X (formerly Twitter) to start building its ecosystem.

This move will enable developers to test the capabilities of Pepe Unchained’s proprietary blockchain, which is anticipated to enhance transaction speeds by up to 100 times that of Ethereum. It will also offer significantly lower gas fees while maintaining security via its Layer 1 in Ethereum.

Following the announcement, the Pepe Unchained presale attracted an additional $150,000 in capital on Thursday, raising its total to $13.86 million.

However, investors looking to boost it to $14 million before the weekend have less than 48 hours to purchase $PEPU at $0.00981, as the price is set to increase to $0.00982 with the start of the next funding round.

If Pepe Unchained’s predecessor, Pepe ($PEPE), wasn’t already sweating bullets, $PEPU is further upping the ante as it calls for passionate Pepe developer fans.

For the past three months, $PEPU has been nipping at the heels of $PEPE as its far superior version, being the iteration of Pepe without the Ethereum shackles.

Because it’s unchained – that is, Ethereum does not constrain it due to having its own blockchain – it makes Pepe ownership accessible to anyone, where high gas fees and slow transactions won’t deter the smallest investor from buying tokens, allowing for better price discovery.

Now, with the developer grant rewards, also called “Pepe Frens With Benefits,” it is welcoming groundbreaking dApps and other innovations using its new Layer 2.

Developers simply need to build their projects, submit a grant application, wait for the Pepe council to vote, and, if selected, receive the