Alleged First-Ever Pepe From 2015 Resurrected After Over a Decade

Summary

• PEP launched on September 8, with speculation that the original variant may be the first Pepe altcoin in blockchain history.

• X user Francois Bacon shared supporting evidence that PEP was the original on-chain Pepe, a post that has gained over 44,000 views.

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PEPECOIN (PEP) launched on September 8, has been met with speculation that it may be the first Pepe altcoin ever created on blockchain. The coin originally launched on April 14, 2015, placing it years ahead of later, more familiar Pepe coins. Despite its early start, the project failed to gain momentum and was largely forgotten.

Over a decade later, the resurfaced coin is now drawing attention across Crypto Twitter. X user Francois Bacon, shared evidence supporting the claim of PEP’s historical primacy, a post that has already been viewed over 44,000 times.

Francois Bacon

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So this pepe coin, is from 2015. ticker $pep The pump coin dev got the original domain name, and created this site pepecoin.ga Posted the coin on bitcointalk.org/index.php?topi… The pepecoin from 2016 which hit 500m now sat at 40m replied to the thread where pep was

4:20 PM · Sep 8, 2025

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Crypto influencer shah, amplified the story by pointing to a 2015 tweet from the alleged original developer.

shah

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the fact that this Pepe dev account from 2015 (1 year before the “og Pepe” launched) posted a domain and launched Pepe And when u press the domain now 10 years later it leads to the pumpfun CA is crazy. everyone thought 2016 Pepe was the first, but it was rlly 2015 Pepe.

4:47 AM · Sep 9, 2025

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The revival of PEP has been accompanied by strong market activity. In under 24 hours, the coin recorded more than $5M in trading volume and reached a $2.8M all-time high market cap. The deployer of PEP has also accumulated more than $44,000 in creator rewards.