The Pepecoin team announced on Discord that the official Pepecoin (PEP) crypto-asset white paper has been published in accordance with European law, marking the project’s compliance with the EU’s Markets in Crypto-Assets (MiCA) regulatory framework. The white paper is filed in support of Pepecoin’s admission to trading on Kraken’s European platform.
The announcement was made on May 8, 2026:
Thanks for your patience while we went though the process of submitting a MiCA white paper. As of today, 2026/05/08, the crypto-asset white paper for Pepecoin is officially published in accordance with European law. We appreciate all donations & the support we got from the partner firm, they did a stellar job at walking us through every step.
What the white paper covers
The published white paper is filed under MiCA’s “Other crypto-assets” category and is drawn up in support of admission to trading on Payward Global Solutions LTD — the legal entity behind Kraken’s European operations. The filing names Ireland as Pepecoin’s home member state, and is passportable across all 27 EU member states plus Iceland, Liechtenstein, and Norway under MiCA’s harmonized framework.
Under MiCA, projects in Pepecoin’s category — “Other crypto-assets” — must publish a notified, compliant white paper as a prerequisite for being offered or admitted to trading in the EU.
What’s in the filing
The white paper covers the full set of MiCA disclosures, including network technology, supply mechanics, environmental sustainability indicators, and risk factors. Several technical details that have been part of community knowledge are now confirmed in an official regulatory filing:
- Pepecoin launched on January 30, 2024 as a code fork of Dogecoin
- The network uses scrypt proof-of-work consensus
- Merged mining via Auxiliary Proof of Work (AuxPoW) was activated at block 42,000
- Blocks are produced approximately every minute
- The current block reward is 10,000 PEP, with no fixed supply cap
The filing is made by Pepecoin LLC, a US-registered limited liability company established in March 2024.
Community-funded effort
The team noted in the announcement that donations from the community helped fund the white paper submission, alongside guidance from a partner firm that walked them through the regulatory steps.
A signal of long-term commitment
Putting together a MiCA white paper is not a small undertaking. The disclosure requirements span dozens of categories — corporate structure, technology, governance, sustainability, risks — and the filing has to be drafted to a regulatory standard that holds up to scrutiny. Pepecoin doing the work itself, with funding raised directly from its own community, is the kind of step a project takes when it expects to be around for the long haul.
Combined with recent exchange listings, growing community channels, and ongoing development, the MiCA filing fits a broader pattern: Pepecoin treating itself as serious infrastructure rather than a passing meme.
Read the full white paper at pepecoin.com/mica-whitepaper.xhtml.
View the original Discord announcement here: https://discord.com/channels/1162499246503759962/1181708314841731193/1502417523763707996