Well, okay… in between the memes and charts you have been looking at (because we know what you degenerates do on weekends) —beyond laughing at frogs with sunglasses and green candles spiking—you decided: I want Pepe. Featured Image: Welcome to the pond, here is how you avoid slipping on the blockchain bananaISMATCHEDIUM. Clicking here for more information!
Step 1: Get a Digital Wallet
Just not the one in your back pocket which is made of leather — you need a wallet for Ethereum. MetaMask and Trust Wallet are two of such popular suspects. Be sure to create this, and then wright down your secret recovery phrase is a safe place — paper safe not “sticky note on your desktop” safe. We do not want the cat to eat them, your cousin to take them, or a hard drive failure to delete them.
Step 2: Buy Some ETH
Systematically Pepe lives on Ethereum, so you will need ETH to get started. Step 1: Head to an exchange (If this is your first rodeo, get started with one of the easy-to-use exchanges like Coinbase Trust Wallet or Binance.) Sign Up, Verify and Buy Some ETH But keep it small — you aren’t ready to throw your entire nest egg in the pond, not yet.
Once you have got your ETH, send it from that exchange to your wallet of choice. Always triple check the address in which you are sending your funds to, before hitting that send button. One incorrect character and your ETH are history, taking a one-way trip to nowhere in an unguarded bus.
Step 3: Trade ETH for Pepe Coin
Uniswap — a ERC-20 token market place. Wallet connected, paste the official Pepe Coin smart contract address Absolutely, there is no getting way around this fact — Spurious tokens are more abundant than frogs in summer. Always use links from the official pepe coin website or verified socials.
Select the amount of ETH you wish to exchange for Pepe. Remember to save a little extra ETH for gas fees (transactions don’t run without it). For meme coins, the slippage tolerance can be set to 2–3% as prices can hop around faster than a frog on a hot lily pad.
After you are done, hit Swap and confirm the transaction in your wallet by following the steps mentioned to process further. If the wallet doesn’t display Pepe automatically, you can manually add the token by pasting in the same official contract address. Frog tokens, secure. Voilà!
Step 4: Keep your head and Your house
Yes, Pepe can moon. Yeah, you could 3X your capital But no, you should not sell your house or pawn your couch to get a meme coin. Never invest more than you are willing to lose, so if your investment disappears you think “ah well” not “god damnit!
Follow any Pepe news on Twitter, Discord or Telegram but avoid the noise. Attention and wisdom are not the same thing.
Step 5: Keep Records
Screenshots are your friend. Keep transaction confirmations and write down the transaction hashes. We achieved our goals, invested about 15k a year (ouch) and did what future me will thank myself for.
According to this new development, buying Pepe Coin is also half-heart-racing half-proceed-with-caution. A single trade might get you a golden lily pad or have you fall into a muddy puddle At the very least you come away with a little more knowledge and a story to tell, worst case you end up with a couple frogs in your digital pond.