El Toad Pepe ($TOAD) — the original Pepe, since 1988
El Toad Pepe is a Solana meme coin with an unusually well-documented ancestor: a green toad character created for Argentine television in 1988, years before the frog most crypto traders picture when they hear the word Pepe. This page explains where the character came from, how the $TOAD token was launched on pump.fun, how the community airdrop actually works, and how to read every number this tracker publishes.
THE 1988 ORIGIN — EL SAPO PEPE
El Sapo Pepe was created in 1988 by Analía García, a former member of the Argentine musical duo Candela. After she moved to the northern suburbs of Buenos Aires, real toads began appearing in her garden; the character was born in San Isidro. García wanted to give children a friendly toad character after noticing that toads were usually portrayed as ugly or sinister in children's stories — around witches, spells and the opposite of the prince. The character was brought to television on Carlitos Balá's show, where it appeared as a toad that gave gifts to children.
The song that introduced the character is built around a simple, memorable line: "No tiene cola y es de color verde" — it has no tail and it is coloured green. That description happens to match Matt Furie's 2005 frog, Pepe, almost word for word: a tailless green amphibian. The chronology is the whole joke behind the ticker. El Sapo Pepe was on Argentine broadcast television in 1988; the Pepe the Frog character that crypto inherited from internet culture dates from a 2005 comic. Sources differ on the exact broadcast year, but 1988 is the year of the character's creation. So when the community calls El Toad Pepe "the original Pepe", it is not a marketing claim invented after the fact — it is a date you can check. A toad rather than a frog, in Spanish rather than English, from Buenos Aires rather than the American internet, and roughly seventeen years earlier.
Sources: Clarín — La verdadera historia de cómo nació el Sapo Pepe; Tornquist Distrital — El Sapo Pepe, eje de un conflicto judicial; Wikipedia — Pepe the Frog.
THE TOKEN LAUNCH ON PUMP.FUN
$TOAD was created on pump.fun, the Solana launchpad where anyone can mint a token against a bonding curve and let the market decide whether it graduates to open liquidity. There was no presale allocation to insiders, no vesting schedule to unlock, and no venture round. The mint address is A13oRB9FFaiUjfi6LdCg6p9ka1u8SfGkUFs4SKvPpump, and it is worth copying that string somewhere safe: the fastest way to lose money on a meme coin is to buy a lookalike ticker.
After the bonding curve completed, liquidity spread across the usual Solana venues, and today $TOAD trades in dozens of pools at once. That fragmentation is why the pools page exists: a single pair tells you almost nothing about real depth when the same token is quoted against SOL, USDC and various wrapped assets across several automated market makers. The price you see in the header is a volume-weighted view of that whole surface, refreshed from scheduled snapshots rather than a single exchange feed.
THE AIRDROP DISTRIBUTION
The part of El Toad Pepe that makes it worth building a dedicated site for is the distribution model. Rather than a single treasury sending tokens to a snapshot list, a source wallet funded a set of community members — the airdroppers — who then send tokens onward to whoever they choose. Some target active traders. Some reward people who post about the coin. Some spray small amounts across hundreds of fresh wallets. There is no central list and no application form.
Two consequences follow, and both matter. First, distribution is genuinely voluntary. Receiving funding creates no obligation to distribute anything, at any pace, to anyone. An airdropper who holds their entire allocation has broken no rule. Second, because it all happens on-chain, the whole process is auditable by anyone willing to read transfers. That is exactly what this tracker does: it indexes every transfer out of every known airdropper wallet, prices each drop at the moment it landed, and follows what the recipient did next.
Nothing on this site is a promise. It is a record. If you are waiting for an airdrop, the only safe posture is patience: no legitimate airdrop ever requires a seed phrase, a signature to "claim", or a fee paid up front.
HOW TO READ THE TRACKER
The tracker lists one row per individual drop — a single transfer from an airdropper to a recipient — sorted by most recent first. RECEIVED is the token amount, USD @ DROP prices that amount at the moment it landed, and STILL HOLDS compares the recipient's current balance against everything they were given. STATUS collapses that comparison into three words: HOLDING, SOLD PARTIAL or SOLD. MISSED UPSIDE is the difference between what a sold position would be worth now and what it fetched — a number that is entertaining in a bull market and cruel in a flat one.
The leaderboard ranks airdroppers by tokens distributed and lets you filter to a date range, which is the honest way to see who is active this week rather than who was active in month one. The holders page shows the top-100 wallet distribution and holder growth from hourly snapshots, and the stats page carries price, market cap and OHLCV candles. Every figure is derived from scheduled jobs, so a few minutes of lag is normal; each page prints the timestamp of the snapshot it is showing, and turns that timestamp gold when the data is older than it should be.
If you just want to know what happened to one wallet, use the wallet checker at the bottom of the tracker. Paste any Solana address and it will tell you whether it ever received a drop, from whom, what it was worth, and whether the tokens are still there.
FAQ
- What is El Toad Pepe ($TOAD)?
- El Toad Pepe is a Solana meme coin built around El Sapo Pepe, a friendly toad character created in 1988 by Analía García for Argentine children's television. The token trades under the ticker $TOAD and was launched on pump.fun. This site tracks its airdrop distribution, holders, liquidity pools and price entirely from on-chain data.
- Is El Toad Pepe older than the Pepe the Frog meme?
- The character predates it. El Sapo Pepe was created in 1988 by Analía García, a former member of the duo Candela, and brought to television on Carlitos Balá's Argentine show. That is several years before the Pepe the Frog comic character of 2005. The origin of the claim that El Toad Pepe is 'the original Pepe, since 1988' is the date of the character's creation, not the exact broadcast year.
- What is the $TOAD mint address?
- The mint address is A13oRB9FFaiUjfi6LdCg6p9ka1u8SfGkUFs4SKvPpump. Always verify the mint before buying — copycat tokens with similar names are common on Solana.
- Who are the airdroppers?
- Airdroppers are wallets that received $TOAD from the original funding source and pass tokens on to the community. They act voluntarily: being funded creates no obligation to distribute, and there is no schedule, quota or deadline. The tracker simply reports what has moved on-chain.
- Do I have to do anything to receive an airdrop?
- No. Airdrops arrive directly in your Solana wallet. Nobody will ever ask for a seed phrase, a wallet connection or a fee to release an airdrop — any such request is a scam.
- Where does the data on this site come from?
- Prices and liquidity come from DexScreener snapshots, transfers and balances come from Solana RPC and indexed token accounts, and holder rankings come from scheduled snapshots of on-chain token accounts. Everything is recomputed on a schedule, so figures may lag the chain by a few minutes.
- Is this the official El Toad Pepe website?
- No. eltoadpepe.info is a community-run analytics site and is not affiliated with the $TOAD team. Nothing here is financial advice.
eltoadpepe.info is a community-run analytics site, not affiliated with the $TOAD team. Nothing here is financial advice.