In March of 2017, a Pepe-inspired project named “Peperium” was announced. Peperium was a decentralized meme marketplace and trading card game that allowed users to create memes by utilizing Ethereum and IPFS. The Peperium project also had its own token, RARE, which was to be used for meme creation and listing fees. Sadly, the project faded during Series 2, with only 31 different collectibles left behind.

Peperium can be found being talked about on old Bitcointalk, Reddit, and Ethereum forums from early 2017. In January of 2023, it was brought back to life by blockchain archaeologists who assisted in rediscovering the project, the IPFS artwork, and original artists and founders. Pieces that have been rediscovered can be wrapped to meet current NFT standards and can now be easily traded.

Peperium consists of the earliest 1/1 artworks and art editions on Ethereum. Peperium was revolutionary to the crypto art space as it innovated a new way to connect decentralized artwork to a token. Today, these art pieces are known to be some of the earliest known historical NFT collectibles!

  • 🖼️ Probably the FIRST art collection on Ethereum
  • ⛓️ (One of) the first project(s) to utilize IPFS
Announcements
Articles Peperium is mentioned in
UNDEADPEPE

UNDEADPEPE "A very CONTROVERSIAL RARE" has been rejected, revised, rejected, and revised again and again.
Destroy your XCP UNDEADPEPE and resurrect on ETH blockchain. 54 UNDEADPEPE have been resurrected at the time of this post.

The max supply of UNDEADPEPE will always be 300 across chains (Ethereum vs Counterparty). That means when an UNDEADPEPE gets destroyed on Counterparty, the circulating supply on Ethereum will increase by 1.
The rest of the Ethereum supply will be stored in one of our wallets, so we can transfer one of those to the destroyer.
In theory all of the Counterparty UNDEADPEPE could be destroyed, so that means we have to hold on to the rest of them, but they won't be circulating.
There's no way back, we can't destroy an Ethereum one to mint a Counterparty one, it's "one-way".

How does this process work?
  1. Destroy the asset using freewallet with a memo like this Username-xxxx or ENS
    • Your username and last four of the ETH wallet where you want the have the Peperium one.
    • Or ENS if it's short enough! (So no we know it is yours, the memo field is too short for a complete ETH address unfortunately)
  2. Let me (Obi) know the xchain tx id and your ETH address (which matches the memo) once done and I'll proceed from there 👌

Technical

RARE token

When launching this project, they also created a RARE token, which was intended to buy cards with, I quote from their whitepaper:

"The RARE token will serve as a base currency for meme creation and exchange on Ethereum. The supply will be initially 100 Million and to preserve the rarity and value of this token, beginning April 20th, 2017, there will be weekly burns of 1,000,000 RARE over a period of 79 weeks, until 21,000,000 RARE are in total circulation. RARE will be divisible to 8 decimal places, and price will be based on the supply/demand dynamics of the market."
The first RARE token (R$) had a bunch of issues, which were later resolved by the legendary "bookypoobah". The new RARE token was deployed and people got airdropped the same amount of RARE. You can look at this Github repository for more details. You can use the ABI below to query the contract details. The RARE token doesn't have any utility but if you want some, reach out to Obi and he'll send you some.The RARE token also has a design (a bit like PEPECASH). Here's the IPFS link of the RARE image, which is displayed below.
ABI

If you want to verify the on-chain IPFS hash yourself, here's the ABI that you can use. You can copy the contract address from the list below and use this ABI to query the contract (for example to verify the IPFS hash). A great website to interact with contracts is MyEtherWallet wallet interact page

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