A few months ago Pepecoin came and went, bringing quick, unimaginable riches to early investors and turning latecomers into reluctant bag holders.

While the chart resembles the standard crypto pump-and-dump scheme, Pepecoin’s (PEPE) price action this week suggests that the frog-themed token could be the newest contender to Dogecoin (

However, the volume of “Pepecoin” searches on Google has subsided since then, with “Dogecoin” maintaining a seven to eight times higher average than PEPE.

Pepecoin also enjoys certain advantages over Dogecoin, including that it resides natively on Ethereum, which means it can see future integrations with Ethereum’s decentralized finance and NFT ecosystem.

Moreover, Pepecoin has a fixed supply of 420.69 trillion, while Dogecoin uses a proof-of-work consensus mechanism and has a fixed yearly issuance of 5 billion coins.

However, based on its market capitalization and popularity on Google, Pepecoin still has a long way to go before it becomes a mainstream memecoin like Dogecoin.

On top of that, Dogecoin enjoys a first-mover advantage and network-effort dominance, having been around for over eight years, while Pepecoin is only a couple of months old.