PEPE to USDT TRC20: Swap Pepe on Ethereum to Tether on Tron, No KYC

PEPE lives on Ethereum as an ERC-20 token. Moving it costs gas, and gas is paid in ETH, never in PEPE. A wallet that holds millions of PEPE but no ETH cannot send a single token. Check your ETH balance in MetaMask, Rabby or Ledger Live before you start the swap, and top it up if it is close to zero.

The deposit is a plain token transfer to the address shown, not a contract approval, so your wallet asks you to sign one transaction. Its gas cost depends on how busy Ethereum is at that moment, not on how many PEPE you send. That makes very small PEPE swaps poor value when the network is crowded.

Expect about 2 to 5 minutes for Ethereum to confirm the PEPE deposit. The rate floats with aggregated liquidity from leading crypto markets until then; after that, most swaps finish within minutes.

Popular meme tokens attract copies with the same name and ticker on Ethereum and on other chains. Only the original ERC-20 PEPE on Ethereum mainnet can be swapped here. If you received your PEPE from an airdrop or an unknown link, look up the token contract on Etherscan and compare it with the official PEPE token page there before you send.

PEPE bridged or issued on BNB Chain, Solana or another network is a different asset and cannot be paid into an Ethereum deposit address. The same goes for PEPE sitting on a layer 2 such as Arbitrum or Base: bring it back to Ethereum mainnet first, or it will not arrive.

The sender address you enter is also where a refund would go. Use the 0x address of your own wallet rather than an exchange account, so returned tokens reach you.

The USDT is paid to a Tron address: T plus 33 characters, from TronLink or Trust Wallet. Your 0x Ethereum address will not work here, even though it held the PEPE. In Trust Wallet, which holds both chains, switch to the Tron account before copying.

Moving PEPE into TRC20 also changes what you pay for later transfers. On Ethereum, every move cost ETH gas. On Tron, a USDT transfer uses energy and bandwidth, paid by burning TRX when nothing is staked. A fresh T-address with no TRX can receive the Tether but cannot send it, so add a little TRX, for example via PEPE to TRX.

Tether can freeze USDT at any address. That is a feature of the token, on Tron as on every other chain.

PEPE can move tens of percent in a day. Swapping some or all of it into Tether after a rally turns the gain into a fixed dollar amount you can hold, send or use. Choosing TRC20 at the same time takes the money off Ethereum, where each later transfer costs gas, onto Tron, where Tether is widely used for payments between people. Our guide to cashing out PEPE without KYC covers the wider options.

Because a single PEPE is worth a tiny fraction of a cent, it is easy to misjudge an order of magnitude. Type the exact amount into the box and read the USDT figure it returns; that number is after fees and is what you should check before you sign.

If you want to stay on Ethereum and already hold ETH, the ERC20 pair keeps everything in one wallet. If the dollars will be sent on to someone who asked for TRC20, or you want cheaper transfers afterwards, stay here.

If a swap cannot be completed, the PEPE goes back to the Ethereum sender address you entered. Should Etherscan show your deposit confirmed while the status page has not moved for a long time, email support@ghostswap.io with the swap ID and the Ethereum transaction hash, and do not send more PEPE meanwhile.