It’s not every day a joke on Crypto Twitter or X turns into a functioning blockchain.
However, that’s exactly what happened with Gorbagana ($GOR), the latest meme coin to shake up the space, this time by forking the Solana blockchain and clocking over $34 million market cap in less than 48 hours.
The story began as a light jab on X between @lex_node and Solana co-founder @aeyakovenko on June 18, and a developer resurfacing an old 2022 meme about SQLChain and sparking the birth of what’s now being called GorbaganaChain.
From tweet thread to testnet
By June 20, the developer going by @Sarv_shaktiman had deployed an early-stage fork of Solana v1.18.26. The infrastructure, modest but functional, runs on an 8-core/64GB VM and includes a custom RPC endpoint, devnet faucet, and basic SPL token support.
Sarv also revealed that they had purchased 200,000 $GOR tokens when the project was valued at $5 million, just before the price doubled overnight.
The faucet allows anyone to claim $GOR and test the wallet, adding a rare layer of interactivity to what most would dismiss as a typical meme coin.
Gorbagana doesn’t just play around with coin logos and community hype, it’s got actual smart contract development under the hood.
While it lacks a mainnet, the project features working devnet docs, and the team is teasing future infrastructure, including a website and more comprehensive documentation.
A Telegram group and an official Twitter account, @Gorbagana_chain, are helping push the community side forward.
Decentralization debate fuels a meme chain
The coin’s branding is a nod to decentralization debates, especially over who controls narratives and trademarks in blockchain ecosystems.
Some community members have embraced Gorbagana as an ironic answer to trademark-heavy chains, referencing Ethereum’s DAO fork and Solana’s branding decisions.
Whether it’s satire or serious infrastructure is still up for debate, but the excitement is real.
Still, like many meme tokens, Gorbagana raises red flags around long-term viability. There’s no clear mainnet roadmap or tokenomics plan so far, and devnet chains aren’t exactly known for stability.
But for now, it’s a reminder of how fast crypto can move, especially when memes, devs, and Twitter (X) all collide.
