Pepe Coin Price Prediction as PEPE Slumps 15% Amid FUD Over Strange Multisig Changes

The price of Pepe Coin ($PEPE), the crypto market’s third largest meme coin by market capitalization and best-performing crypto asset of the year so far, recently fell as much as 14% in minutes amid a wave of social media Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt (FUD).

Pepe Coin has been trading around $0.000001050, but quickly fell to new daily lows around $0.0000009 after a social media user flagged that the Pepe multisig wallet had just changed its threshold to 2/8 signatures, before also warning that some $PEPE had been sent to exchanges.

The transaction changing the multisig threshold (which required 5/8 signatures to execute) can be seen via Etherscan. It is also documented on the Safe Wallet service:

“Shocker Pepe team back with their suss moves. Who could’ve guessed” remarked one X (formerly Twitter) user.

But another user pushed back against the FUD.

“The only holders of more than 2.5% of PEPE are OKX and Binance, and of the top six holders, five are exchanges. Also, circulating supply = maximum supply. So there’s a minimal risk for traditional “rug” here. The token belongs to the community,” @ethx_o said.

Still, the $PEPE price was last down about 15% on the day.

Here’s  the PEPE multisig wallet and CEX addresses involved in alleged rug pull transfers

The multisig wallet transferred Pepe to an EOA (Externally Owned Account) address. This is a special address that is distinct from a smart contract address and is controlled with a private key.

https://etherscan.io/address/0x5bdea820293689b77fa8e83b1e3d58b27b5ce9ba#tokentxns

The movement of funds onto centralized exchanges can be seen at the following address:

https://etherscan.io/address/0xa34b091932d9c9ffcff254c9aa1b4210c81f2ea0#tokentxns

For example, here is the Binance wallet that received funds tokens originating from the PEPE multisig wallet.

https://etherscan.io/address/0x6aedf674e6c8bb0376fbe0d4ad28481ab33103cb#tokentxns

Price Prediction – Where Next for Pepe Coin?

$PEPE has been trending to the downside within the confines of a bearish trend channel in recent months and looks to be on course to test its June lows in the $0.0000008 area.

Short-term price predictions thus remain bearish.

That being said, assuming the latest warnings about multisig changes to Pepe’s wallet proves to be nothing more than meaningless FUD, $PEPE’s underlying fundamentals continue to look good.

As per Etherscan, the token is approaching an impressive 140,000 holders, a number that has continued to climb in recent months, despite the absence of a major fresh price pump.

Retail investors are apparently still keen to accumulate the coin and the further $PEPE dips, the more dip buyers might jump in.

Continued growth in the number of holders suggests that $PEPE’s “adoption” as a crypto asset to invest in continues to rise, which should bode well for future broader market bull runs.

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This story was updated at 8:04am UTC August 25, 2023

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