Before Pepe stole the spotlight, there was Spike—the rough-sketched dino that kick-started Matt Furie’s whole meme universe. Matt was barely five years old when he sketched Spike—his entire origin story starts right there.
In crypto, the Day-Zero asset always ends up king (see Bitcoin for example). Spike is Furie’s Day Zero. Every character after—Pepe included—branches out from that single sketch. $SPIKE brings the focus back to the original spark of a creative boy with big dreams.
Spike is the original. Everything after that is a derivative.
