Pepeto said the final testing round for its DeFi exchange (blockchain-based trading platform) has been completed, putting the project days away from exchange trading and the end of presale access. The release said the token has collected $9.3 million and framed the project as an early-stage meme coin with utility, including zero-cost trading across Ethereum, BNB Chain, and Solana, a bridge for moving funds between the three networks in seconds, and AI contract checks before funds are deployed. The statement contrasted Pepeto's positioning with Dogecoin, which it said was trading near $0.0699, about 40% below a recent peak of $0.118. It cited Analytics Insight as saying whale wallets bought 680 million DOGE this month and cited Benzinga analysts as forecasting a Dogecoin price of $1.50 by 2030. The release argued that larger upside in the meme-token sector may now lie with earlier-stage tokens rather than established names such as Dogecoin, which it described as carrying a roughly $12 billion market cap.