The Meme Coin Sector Is Down 75 Percent From Its Peak. Analysts Who Called the Last Meme Season Say the Next One Will Be 20x Bigger. Pepeto Built the Infrastructure for It

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates, February 2026 The meme coin sector peaked above $120 billion in total market cap during the 2024 mania. Today it sits below $30 billion. A 75 percent decline that wiped out thousands of projects and sent millions of holders running. DOGE is down 89 percent from its all-time high. SHIB lost 92 percent. PEPE shed 80 percent. The meme economy looks dead on the surface.

But the analysts who correctly predicted the 2024 meme season before it began are saying something the market is not ready to hear. Messari's meme sector report projects a $200 to $600 billion meme coin market cap during the next Bitcoin bull run. Delphi Digital estimates the meme vertical will capture 8 to 12 percent of total crypto market cap at cycle peak. That represents a 7x to 20x expansion from current levels.

The meme economy is not dying. It is reloading. And Pepeto ($PEPETO) at https://pepeto.io/ is the only project that built dedicated infrastructure to serve a $600 billion meme economy while the sector trades at $30 billion.

Why the Next Meme Season Will Dwarf Everything Before It

The 2024 meme season was powered by retail speculation and social media virality. It had zero infrastructure. Zero institutional participation. Zero dedicated tools. And it still produced $120 billion in market cap and minted thousands of millionaires.

The next meme season arrives into a fundamentally different environment. Bitcoin ETFs have normalized crypto for institutions. Regulatory frameworks are being formalized. Stablecoin reserves sit at $200 billion. And the meme culture that drives adoption has penetrated every demographic from college students to retirees.

More capital. More participants. More cultural relevance. And for the first time in meme coin history, dedicated infrastructure to trade through. PepetoSwap for zero-tax meme trades. Pepeto Bridge for cross-chain access. Pepeto Exchange for curated meme listings. The infrastructure that the $120 billion meme season did not have is live and testable right now.

Positioning for $600 Billion at $30 Billion

The opportunity for large allocators is mathematical, not emotional. The meme sector at $30 billion is 75 percent below its peak and analysts project 7x to 20x expansion. The infrastructure layer of that sector is available at $0.000000186 in a presale that has raised $7.29 million and is 70 percent filled.

For a $500,000 allocation staked at 211% APY, annual yield reaches $1.07 million while the meme sector recovers. If the sector reaches $300 billion the midpoint of analyst projections and Pepeto (https://pepeto.io/) captures even a small percentage as the infrastructure layer, the return profile enters territory that large-cap crypto investments cannot approach.

SolidProof and Coinsult dual audits provide institutional-grade security verification. The Pepe cofounder provides credibility. The Binance listing provides exchange access. And three working product demos provide the verifiable infrastructure that separates Pepeto from the thousands of meme tokens that will compete for attention during the next season.

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The Infrastructure Advantage Compounds With the Sector

Individual meme tokens rise and fall on sentiment. The infrastructure layer rises with the entire sector. When DOGE pumps, PepetoSwap captures the trading volume. When a new meme coin launches, Pepeto Exchange captures the listing activity. When capital rotates between chains, Pepeto Bridge captures the flow.

Owning $PEPETO at the protocol level of all three products means the position benefits from the growth of the entire meme economy, not just one token within it. That diversified exposure to a sector projected to expand 7x to 20x is the thesis that has sophisticated allocators entering the presale during maximum fear.

The presale at Pepeto is 70 percent through. The meme sector is at $30 billion and heading to $600 billion according to the analysts who called the last season. The infrastructure is live. The remaining 30 percent is how you own the pipes before the flood arrives.

Enter The Presale Before It ends: https://pepeto.io/

About Pepeto

Pepeto is a meme coin infrastructure project on Ethereum. PepetoSwap, Pepeto Bridge, Pepeto Exchange. All live in demo. Dual audited by SolidProof and Coinsult. Zero tax. 211%+ APY staking. Confirmed Binance listing. Created by a cofounder of Pepe.

Contact: Dani Bonocci
Website: https://www.tokenwire.io
Phone: +971586738991
SOURCE: Pepeto

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