TLDR:
- Milestone: Gorbagana ($GOR) has a market capitalization of $37.7 million and is increasing, with an all-time high (ATH) of $40.5 million, and $85.5 million of trading volume as of June 20, 2025.
- Narrative: From a tongue-in-cheek dialogue on X by @lex_node and Solana Co-Founder @aeyakovenko, in which @lex_node was highlighting the worth of branding with a sarcastic illustration of the fictional Gorbagana fork, community members built $GOR with an Oscar the Grouch logo, and then @aeyakovenko shilled with “Gorbagana coded.”
Gorbagana ($GOR), with the contract address 71Jvq4Epe2FCJ7JFSF7jLXdNk1Wy4Bhqd9iL6bEFELvg, was a surprise player in the cryptocurrency market with a current market cap of $37.7 million and rising, with its highest ever recorded value of $40.5 million, and with a volume of $85.5 million as of June 20, 2025. That is driven by a story that started as a humorous and insightful X thread by @lex_node and Solana Co-founder Anatoly Yakovenko (@aeyakovenko), who later became a $GOR force and eventually came to fully endorse it himself.
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The story begins as a response to a post by @lex_node regarding why trademarks are significant in crypto. To that, Yakovenko had replied, “Why? It doesn’t matter what people call solana in China, as long as they are using the same ledger as the people in the US.” This reply had elicited a response from @lex_node in the form of an example of why branding was important: “two forks: one is called Solana, has the ticker SOL, and has the Solana logos; one is called Gorbagana, has the ticker GOR and has oscar the grouch.png as a logo. Which is going to be more valuable?” This humorous but pointed example soon caught the imagination of the community, giving rise to the development of Gorbagana ($GOR) on Solana, with Oscar the Grouch as its logo, as it symbolizes the light-hearted but serious nature of the discussion.
The token’s story gained momentum when it was tweeted by @aeyakovenko himself, who posted, “Gorbagana coded.”
That endorsement by one of the most prominent Solana community figures pushed $GOR’s popularity and market demand to astronomical levels, placing it at its current market cap of $37.7 million and its new all-time high of $40.5 million. The trading volume that reached $85.5 million is a testament to community fervor for said meme token, cleverly bringing a speculative case to life.
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