The first Pepe · since 1988
EL TOAD PEPE
The original Pepe was a toad. He was on Argentine television in 1988 — seventeen years before anyone drew the internet frog. Now he is on Solana.
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About
The first Pepe was a toad.
In 1988 he appeared on Carlitos Balá's Argentine children's show: a green toad in a red shirt and yellow suspenders, charming living rooms decades before anyone drew an internet frog.
The fandom wiki even claims this toad was "based on" the 2005 frog. History running backwards. The truth is simpler — every "first Pepe" you have heard of came second.
$TOAD is that legend, reborn as a community coin on Solana.
How to Buy
Four steps to the pond.
New to Solana? You do not need to install anything. pump.fun creates a wallet for you, and you can be holding $TOAD in a few minutes.
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Open pump.fun
Go to the $TOAD coin page with the button below. Choose Log in and sign up with your email or Google account.
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Your wallet is created
pump.fun makes a Solana wallet for your account automatically. Nothing to install. Open the wallet menu and back up your private key somewhere offline — it is the only copy.
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Add some SOL
Press Deposit and either buy SOL with a card or send SOL from an exchange to the address shown. A small amount is plenty — fees on Solana are pennies.
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Buy $TOAD
Type the amount of SOL you want to spend and press Buy. Check the contract address on the page matches the one on this site, character for character.
Tokenomics
Simple, fair, on-chain.
No games. A plain Solana token, fair-launched on pump.fun.
Verify before you buy.
Accept no imitation frogs. Everything below is readable on-chain by anybody — do not take our word for it, or anyone else's.
- Mint authority revoked — no new $TOAD can ever be created.
- Freeze authority revoked — nobody can freeze your wallet.
- Fair launch — no presale, no team allocation.
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Lore
Nearly four decades in the pond.
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1988
The toad hops onto TV
El Toad Pepe debuts on Carlitos Balá's Argentine children's show: a green toad in a red shirt and yellow suspenders. The first Pepe, decades before the internet.
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2005
The frog copycat
Matt Furie publishes Boy's Club #1 and introduces his own frog under the same name. The toad was already seventeen years old.
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2013
926,000,000 views
El Reino Infantil and La Granja de Zenón release their El Toad Pepe video — the exact red-shirt toad on our coin. It becomes a Latin American childhood anthem.
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2023
The Pepe wave
Pepe memecoin mania sweeps crypto. Billions in volume for a frog, while the original toad watched from the pond.
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2026
$TOAD on Solana
The original finally claims the chain. El Toad Pepe launches on Solana, community-owned and lore-forward. The first Pepe, at last on-chain.
Community
Come to the pond.
Every link we use lives here. Nobody from this project will ever DM you first, ask for a seed phrase, or offer you a giveaway.