Following the successful first round of FwB Grant recipients featuring HoRa and Tosh, we are pleased to announce the Round 2 FwB Grant winners building on Pepe Unchained Layer 2: Degen Time x Pepu Bank and Pepu Vault.

Both projects were selected based on their ability to deliver meaningful infrastructure and user-experience improvements that support long-term ecosystem growth. As part of this grant round, Pepe Unchained will support both teams with the services required to operate and scale their products for a full year, prioritising sustainability, reliability, and ecosystem alignment.

Degen Time x Pepu Bank focuses on improving how users move capital from Layer 1 into Pepe Unchained Layer 2, while also expanding the set of tools available once users are on-chain.

Through Penk Market and Superbridge, this initiative improves access into the ecosystem. In parallel, Pepu Bank is introducing advanced trading utilities designed to give users greater control over execution.

Trading Vault is a Pepu Bank utility that allows users to place buy and sell limit orders with full control over price execution.

Rather than reacting to market volatility, users define their target price in advance. Once that price is reached, the system executes the trade automatically.

This enables:

• Precise entry and exit pricing

• Strategy-based execution rather than manual timing

• Reduced stress and constant monitoring

Trading Vault is being developed with future integration into PepuSwap in mind, allowing advanced order functionality to work along side the core trading interface.

From observed ecosystem behaviour, one conclusion has been clear: reliable access and controlled execution materially improve user confidence and on-chain participation.

When L1 ↔️ L2 access works efficiently and users can trade with precision:

• Onboarding becomes smoother

• Larger and more deliberate transactions are easier to execute

• Overall Layer 2 activity increases organically

The Pepu allocation associated with this grant is used strictly to support operational performance and system reliability, ensuring these tools function as intended as demand grows. The focus remains on infrastructure quality and user experience, not short-term incentives or sell-side activity.

🔗 Learn more: https://www.pepubank.net/

Pepu Vault is focused on reducing friction across the Pepe Unchained ecosystem by improving how users access information, tools, and on-chain opportunities.

As part of this FwB Grant, Pepu Vault’s Pepu AI will be integrated directly into the main ecosystem chat, allowing users to receive fast, contextual assistance for general questions, navigation, and ecosystem discovery.

As Layer 2 ecosystems grow, complexity becomes a barrier to adoption. Pepu Vault addresses this by embedding intelligence directly into the user journey, improving usability without increasing cognitive load.

Through its 2026 roadmap, Pepu Vault will focus on:

• Scaling AI-driven onboarding and user guidance

• Expanding automated tooling, including trading and application bots

• Broadening its investment strategies to Ethereum, Base, and cross-chain environments

• Establishing Pepu Vault as a standalone, recognisable entity

• Introducing long-term participation mechanisms, including exclusive staking

• Delivering a major upgrade to VaultGPT, providing deeper insights and smarter analytics

This roadmap prioritises practical utility, scalability, and long-term value creation, ensuring that Pepu Vault grows in step with the ecosystem rather than ahead of it.

🔗 Learn more: https://Pepuvault.net

Round 2 of the FwB Grant program continues our focus on infrastructure, usability, and long-term ecosystem health.

With Degen Time x Pepu Bank improving access and onboarding, and Pepu Vault enhancing user interaction through AI, these projects represent meaningful progress toward a more seamless Pepe Unchained Layer 2 experience.

More updates will follow as these integrations continue to roll out.