Is rare PEPECash going to Explode? Trading Card Blockchain?

An emerging blockchain-based platform called Counterparty lets users make anything into a unique digital coin, and “anything” now includes Rare Pepes.

On the Pepe trading hub RarePepeWallet.com, you’ll find hundreds of Rare Pepe images, all formats to look like trading cards. Each exists in a limited quantity, anywhere from one to thousands, and no new copies will ever be issued.

We saw Rare Pepes traded on Craigslist before, where physical drawings or printouts of the frog that were offered in exchange for cold, hard cash—sometimes as much as $100. We’ve even seen them sell on eBay for nearly $100,000—probably as a joke. But JeffTheDunker also suggests there’s a real demand for unusual digital images of Pepe, even though it seems like those images should be trivial to replicate.

One Rare Pepe designer, Nymity Nymz, told Le Monde, “I think these are just the beginnings of an industry,” and said it’s even possible he could live on his Pepes someday.