Nobody can change the Pepe token contract, including the people who wrote it
Ownership of the ethereum:0x6982508145454ce325ddbe47a25d4ec3d2311933 contract was renounced at launch and the liquidity pool tokens were burned. Nobody can mint new tokens, add a transfer tax, or pull the trading liquidity.
Supply was capped at 420,690,000,000,000 in April 2023 and can only fall from there. Roughly 6.9 trillion tokens have since been burned, leaving 413.77 trillion. There was no presale and trades carry no tax.
An immutable contract does not cover everything. Tokens set aside for exchange listings sat in a shared
@pepecoineth team wallet, and in 2023 roughly 16 trillion of them were moved to exchanges and sold without authorization. That wallet holds about 2.12 trillion PEPE today, worth around $7.2 million.