PEPE to ADA: Convert Pepe (ERC-20) to Cardano, No KYC

PEPE is a meme token with no network of its own. It is an ERC-20 contract on Ethereum, so holding it means holding a balance inside MetaMask, Rabby or a Ledger, and every move costs ETH. ADA is the coin of a whole chain: it pays Cardano fees and can be delegated to a stake pool straight from your own wallet, without the coins leaving your address.

That is the most common reason behind PEPE to ADA. Someone has a meme-coin position that went the way they hoped, or did not, and wants to rotate part of it into a layer-1 coin they can delegate and hold for longer. Others simply want their next trades on Cardano, where wallets like Eternl and Lace are already set up.

Be honest about what changes. ADA moves with the market too; it is a different asset, not a safe harbour. The swap box shows exactly how much ADA you receive after fees, at a rate drawn from aggregated liquidity from leading crypto markets.

Sending an ERC-20 token always costs gas in ETH, and the cost depends on how busy Ethereum is, not on how many PEPE you move. Moving a huge PEPE balance costs the same gas as moving a small one. A wallet with PEPE and no ETH cannot send anything, so top up a little ETH first.

This is a plain token transfer to a deposit address. There is no contract approval to sign, no slippage setting and no router, which also means no unlimited allowance left behind on your wallet. MetaMask shows it as a simple send of PEPE.

Your PEPE transfer gets its Ethereum confirmations in about 2 to 5 minutes. If gas is high, waiting for a quieter hour costs nothing: the quote only locks in once the deposit confirms. The guía de tarifas de gasolina covers how to pick the moment.

This pair takes PEPE as the ERC-20 token on Ethereum mainnet. The same 0x address in your wallet can also hold bridged copies of PEPE on other networks, such as BNB Smart Chain or Arbitrum. A wallet will happily send those to the deposit address, but they arrive on the wrong chain and the swap never sees them.

Before you press send, check the network name at the top of MetaMask or Rabby. It should read Ethereum or Ethereum Mainnet, and the PEPE balance should be the one listed under that network. You can confirm the token contract in Etherscan from the wallet's token details.

Do not send PEPE straight from an exchange withdrawal. The sender address you enter is where a refund goes, and an exchange's hot wallet is not yours. Move the PEPE into MetaMask or Rabby first and send from that address.

The payout goes to a Cardano address that starts with addr1. Your Ethereum 0x address cannot receive it, and ADA on BNB Smart Chain is a separate coin in the exchange box, so a 0x string in the receive field is always a mistake on this pair.

Open Eternl, Lace or VESPR, copy an address from the receive tab, and paste it. Cardano wallets rotate receive addresses, and any of them is fine. Blocks come about every 20 seconds and the ADA confirms within a few minutes; cardanoscano Lo muestra en tu dirección.

If you plan to delegate, keep a small amount of ADA aside. The first delegation from a wallet registers a stake key, which takes a refundable deposit in ADA. Delegated ADA stays spendable, so you can move it later without undoing anything first.

If a swap cannot be completed, the coins are refunded to the sender address you entered. Here that is your Ethereum 0x address, and the refund comes back as ERC-20 PEPE, so you will need ETH again later to move it.

Most trouble on this pair comes from three things: PEPE sent on a network other than Ethereum, a transfer that left with too little gas and sat pending, or a different amount from the one quoted. A pending transaction in MetaMask can be sped up with a higher gas price; until it confirms, the swap simply waits.

Track the deposit on Etherscan with its transaction hash and the swap on the status page. If Etherscan shows success and the status page has not moved for a long time, write to support@ghostswap.io with the swap ID and the hash.