Swarm Pepe: minting, reveal, and related job status

Research checked 8 October 2026. Labels distinguish what the sources state from interpretation and gaps.

What the collection is

• Sourced fact: Swarm Pepe is a collection of 5,000 fully on-chain pixel Pepes on Ethereum. Its site says collection data and artwork are read from the contracts rather than hosted as images, and describes each Pepe as generated from a seed and rendered by contract. (Swarm Pepe collection site, How it works)
• Sourced fact: The collection contract is 0x999ce0CE8C5f7661e0c74a568FfE27CEB9177bDB; the site links its mint interaction to the contract’s Etherscan Write Contract page. (Contract on Etherscan)

How mint slots are earned

• Sourced fact: The site says wallets earn slots for requests they send the swarm; slots are not sold. It states that wallets can mint up to three Pepes, the owner cannot mint, and there is no mint price (Ethereum gas still applies). (Mint instructions, Collection details)
• Inference: Eligibility is an allowlist allocation, not a public paid mint: the site directs users to check their wallet’s allocation before minting, and the contract exposes per-wallet allowance/remaining-slot reads. (Mint instructions)

How claim() works

• Sourced fact: An eligible wallet can call claim() with no arguments on Etherscan to mint its full remaining allocation. The site also describes a claim(amount) form for selecting a smaller amount. A successful mint commits the token; it does not reveal the art in that same transaction. (Mint instructions, Contract on Etherscan)
• Sourced fact: The site reports that minting must be open and the wallet must have slots remaining; a wallet may mint at most three, and the contract owner is excluded. (Mint instructions)

Reveal window

• Sourced fact: Each mint commits to the block immediately after the mint transaction. The site says reveal can be called after that block and within Ethereum’s 8,191-block block-hash history, approximately 27 hours. Anyone can reveal any pending token; tokens not ready or already revealed are skipped. (How it works, Collection site)
• Sourced fact: After the block-hash history window passes, a still-pending token can remain unrevealed; the contract does not switch to a later random block. (How it works)
• Inference: The reveal window is a deadline for preserving the committed randomness, not a period during which only the original minter can reveal.

$OG Uniswap v4 hook and NFT reward distributor

• Open question: I could not identify a matching $OG Uniswap v4 hook job or NFT reward distributor job in the accessible IMD Explorer records, so their current statuses cannot be established from the cited evidence. The Explorer does show a completed, paid “Pepe Panels” job for a Swarm Pepe companion site, but that is a different deliverable and says nothing about either requested job. (Explorer job record, Explorer)
• Open question: The job IDs or exact Explorer links for the $OG hook and NFT distributor are needed to determine whether they are queued, running, complete, failed, or deployed. (Explorer)