How we research, check and fix our PEPE guides

Our principles

pepecoin.finance is an independent guide to Pepe (PEPE), the meme token on Ethereum. Meme coins attract more hype, half-truths and outright scams than almost any corner of crypto, so this editorial policy exists to keep us honest. In short: every fact needs a source and a date, live numbers come from live data and nowhere else, nobody pays for a better score, and mistakes get fixed in the open.

These rules apply to every page in every language we publish: English, Turkish, Indonesian and German.

Sourcing and primary sources

We go to the primary source wherever one exists. For the token itself, that means the PEPE contract on Etherscan, which shows the supply, the holders and the contract’s functions directly from the blockchain. For exchanges, it means their own listing announcements, fee schedules and terms. For licences, it means the regulator’s public register, such as the FCA register in the UK or NMLS in the US, rather than a company’s marketing copy. For legal and tax points, it means the regulator or tax authority itself, and for filings like the Canary PEPE ETF, the documents on SEC EDGAR.

Secondary sources, like news reports and data aggregators, are used for context and for things primary sources can’t give us, such as market-wide statistics. When we rely on them, we name them. We treat paid press releases and presale promotions as advertising, not evidence. That matters a lot in the PEPE world, where copycat tokens buy coverage to look legitimate, as our guide to Pepe clones explains.

If a claim can’t be confirmed, we either leave it out or say plainly that it is unverified. We would rather have a shorter page than a page with invented numbers.

Dating facts

Crypto facts expire fast. A fee changes, an exchange leaves a country, a regulator issues a new rule. So every fact that can change carries a date: “on 13 October 2026, CoinGecko listed…” rather than “PEPE’s market cap is…”. Each page lists its sources at the bottom with the date we last checked them, and the page header shows when it was last updated.

Historical events, like the token’s deployment on 14 April 2023 or the all-time high on 9 December 2024 covered in our PEPE price history, are dated to the day wherever the record allows.

Live data policy

Prices, market caps, trading volumes and percentage changes are never typed into our articles. They go stale within minutes, and a stale price presented as current is misleading. Instead, our widgets load live figures in your browser from public APIs: CoinGecko and the Binance public data API for market data, plus public currency-rate feeds for local currency conversion.

• Live numbers come only from public APIs, loaded when you open the page.
• If a data source is unavailable, the number is hidden. We never show a guess.
• We never estimate, interpolate or “fill in” a missing live value.
• Static figures in the text are dated snapshots with a named source.
• Scenarios, like those on our prediction page, are labelled as math, not forecasts.

This is why the live PEPE price page or the PEPE calculator may occasionally show an empty space instead of a number. That is the policy working as intended.

How reviews are scored

Our exchange reviews end with a score from 0 to 10. The score reflects how well a platform serves someone who wants to buy, hold or sell PEPE, not how good the exchange is in general. We look at the same six areas for every platform:

Each review explains its score in writing, so you can see why a platform landed where it did and weigh the areas that matter most to you. A strong licence record can’t hide a bad security history, and low fees don’t make up for no PEPE pair in your currency. Scores are updated when the facts behind them change. No exchange can pay for a review, a higher score or a better position in our exchange comparison.

Corrections

We make mistakes, and we want to hear about them. Email support@pepecoin.finance with the page, the problem and, ideally, a source. We check every report against primary sources. When an error is confirmed, we fix it, update the page date and, for material errors that could change a reader’s decision, add a short note on the page explaining what changed. Safety-critical errors, such as a wrong contract address, are fixed first.

Independence

We are not affiliated with the anonymous PEPE team, with Matt Furie, with CEX.IO or with any other exchange. We don’t accept payment for coverage, placements, reviews or scores, and we don’t publish sponsored content.

Our call-to-action buttons link to CEX.IO. That is an editorial choice to give readers one clear next step, not a partnership, and it doesn’t affect how we write about CEX.IO or its competitors. We report CEX.IO’s limits as plainly as anyone else’s: it does not serve India or Canada, the EU and EEA are closed to new sign-ups, and its own buy-PEPE page says PEPE is not available to US-based users. More on this is on our about page.

AI-assisted research

Update cadence

Pages with live widgets update themselves every time you load them. The written content is reviewed on a regular schedule, and sooner when something material happens: a new listing or delisting, a change in an exchange’s availability, a regulatory decision, a security incident or a major development such as a new ETF filing. Our PEPE news timeline is updated as events happen. Every page shows its last-updated date, so you always know how fresh it is.

Questions about this policy are welcome at support@pepecoin.finance, and you can read more about the team on our about page or check our disclaimer.