Pepe (PEPE) Price Surges 100% Post OKX Listing Announcement

• Pepe (PEPE) has recently flipped Shiba Inu and FLOKI in trade volumes.
• The meme currency will be available in a PEPE/USDT pair on the exchange.

Several cryptocurrency exchanges have moved quickly to list various meme coins as they gain popularity in the market. Pepe (PEPE) has recently flipped Shiba Inu and FLOKI in trade volumes, therefore the market is paying close attention.

OKX, a cryptocurrency exchange, has announced that it would be offering PEPE, a meme coin that has been trending and rallying higher over the weekend.

#Memecoin New Listing Update $PEPE @pepecoineth gets listed on #OKX!
PEPE/USDT Spot Trading: 9:00 am May 1 (UTC)
Details: https://t.co/jzMvhs0QaH pic.twitter.com/VRnX3glD5Q

— OKX (@okx) May 1, 2023

The cryptocurrency exchange made the formal statement that they will be offering Pepe (PEPE), on May 1. OKX has added the PEPE to its spot trading platforms, and trading will begin at 9:00 UTC on May 1. Withdrawals will begin the next day, on May 2. The meme currency will be available in a PEPE/USDT pair on the exchange.

Price Rallies Post Announcement

OKX said that “Pepe the Frog” was originally a cartoon by Matt Furie and has now become an Internet meme. It looks like a humanoid frog but is really green and anthropomorphic. One of the most trending meme coins, PEPE is an Ethereum-based deflationary memecoin.

The crypto exchange used Twitter to share the good news regarding the addition of PEPE to its trading pairs. OKX Chief Executive “Star” Xu also made a tweet on the listing. Pepe is predicted to become more popular than Shiba Inu and Dogecoin, as per investors.

The price of PEPE has increased by more than 100 percent in the last day, and it is now trading at $0.00000106. Within that time frame, the price has gone as low as $0.0000005221 and as high as $0.00000106.