Gasspas

Origin

ZOGZ is the actual origin and it is dated. In May 2023 Furie released 111 original character illustrations as an NFT collection, and Gasspas is one of the 111. That is where the name comes from, which matters, because it means the character is not a fan invention and the spelling is not up for debate. The revival came from Furie's editor, who posts as beuys_on_sale_ and shared previews of Cortex Vortex in May 2025. Cortex Vortex is a physical object rather than a franchise: a limited edition art book, hand screenprinted, roughly 110 signed and numbered copies, released late that month. In the previewed artwork Gasspas is drawn as a large psychedelic cat standing over two rats, cast as the antagonist to the rodent protagonist. Early crypto coverage called that rat Rato and built a whole rival token narrative on the name. Furie later clarified on Patreon that the rat is called Rusty, which is a very Furie way for a memecoin thesis to fall apart. So the receipts are: a character from a 2023 NFT set, a 2025 limited art book that put him back in circulation, and an artist who has said nothing about any of the tokens.

Spread

The token race started before most people had seen the book. The first Gasspas contract on Ethereum is 0xf56a4A9ae94aeE8F6e9BF737907389c94285AbE6, whose Uniswap pool opened at 06:19:47 UTC on 10 May 2025. It is now run by a community takeover account that calls itself @oggasspascto, which tells you how the fight went, and it holds about 8,200 dollars. The one that actually became Gasspas is 0x774eaF7A53471628768dc679dA945847d34b9a55, whose Uniswap pool opened at 19:14:59 UTC on 13 May 2025, three days and thirteen hours later. Its supply is 420,690,000,000,000, the standard Pepe numerology, with zero tax, burned liquidity and renounced ownership. It picked up the gasspas.vip site, the @GasspasCat account, CoinGecko and CoinMarketCap listings and a run of sponsored crypto press asking whether this was the next Furie breakout. CoinGecko records its all time high at 0.000000035274 dollars at 04:16:35 UTC on 10 June 2025, roughly 14.8 million dollars of market capitalisation against that supply. After that it did what small character tokens do, which is deflate slowly while the copies multiply. A Solana pump.fun GASSPAS appeared on 11 May 2025, a PulseChain version on 15 June 2025, a Base site at basedgasspas.com and a Sui project at gasspas.xyz advertising itself as the latest Matt Furie creation on Sui. Then on 25 August 2026 four separate Solana GASSPAS mints landed in a single day.

Legacy

Gasspas is the clearest working example of a specific 2025 trade: buy the character before the artist finishes the drawing. Pepe made Furie's back catalogue into a speculative asset class, so every new figure he sketches now gets a contract within hours of the first preview image, whether or not the character has done anything, said anything, or appeared in a book anyone can buy. Gasspas got a market before Cortex Vortex shipped its hundred and ten copies. The second lesson is about what winning means here. The token that came first is not the token that matters. Three days of head start counted for nothing against a better site, better tickers and a press push, and the original was left to a community takeover account whose handle is a complaint. Anyone insisting there is one true Gasspas contract is choosing between a corpse with seniority and a survivor without it. The third is the naming farce. A large slice of the early coverage confidently paired Gasspas against a rat called Rato, and the artist eventually pointed out that the rat is called Rusty. The tokens had already been named. Nobody renamed anything. None of the contracts on any chain has a documented endorsement from Matt Furie. Checked on 25 August 2026, the Ethereum token holds roughly 415,000 dollars of market capitalisation on about 163,000 dollars of liquidity in a single Uniswap pool, while a pump.fun mint launched that morning on Solana briefly carried nearly twice that.

The Chain Trail

MemePedia tracks 1 Gasspas memecoin across Ethereum.

Key facts

• Gasspas is a cat character by Matt Furie, creator of Pepe the Frog, first released in ZOGZ, a collection of 111 original illustrations issued as NFTs in May 2023.
• The character returned in previews of Cortex Vortex, a hand screenprinted limited edition book of roughly 110 signed and numbered copies released in late May 2025, shared by Furie's editor beuys_on_sale_.
• In the previewed artwork Gasspas looms over two rats as the antagonist. Early coverage named the rat protagonist Rato; Furie later clarified on Patreon that the rat is called Rusty.
• The first Gasspas token is Ethereum 0xf56a4A9ae94aeE8F6e9BF737907389c94285AbE6, Uniswap pool 0x80A6842d30eCFf0f05d5506230cdE68fCc957AeB opened at 06:19:47 UTC on 10 May 2025. It is now run by a community takeover account, @oggasspascto, and holds about 8,200 dollars.
• The token that took the name is Ethereum 0x774eaF7A53471628768dc679dA945847d34b9a55, Uniswap pool 0xcFB26DF385D790Aa7E417394EC1196a3Bd56Aa8C opened at 19:14:59 UTC on 13 May 2025, three days later.
• Its supply is 420,690,000,000,000, a direct copy of the Pepe supply joke, with zero tax, burned liquidity and renounced ownership.
• All time high price was 0.000000035274 dollars at 04:16:35 UTC on 10 June 2025 per CoinGecko, roughly 14.8 million dollars of market capitalisation.
• Copies exist on Solana from 11 May 2025, PulseChain from 15 June 2025, plus Base and Sui sites, the latter advertising itself as the latest Matt Furie creation on Sui.
• Four separate Solana pump.fun GASSPAS mints appeared on 25 August 2026, the largest at GCr352ouzNZkNQd3KZqs6jFuQb8LiYnWsEJSUpSfpump with unrelated socials.
• No contract on any chain has a documented endorsement from Matt Furie.
• Checked on 25 August 2026: the Ethereum token holds roughly 415,000 dollars of market capitalisation on about 163,000 dollars of liquidity in one Uniswap pool.