Gabriel Shapiro publicly challenged the market to compare the value of trademark-free “Gorbagana” against branded Solana, asking which identical fork investors would prize more.

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In reply, Shapiro issued a public challenge: imagine two identical versions of Solana — one with its existing name and visual identity, and another with none of its trademarks, rebranded as ‘Gorbagana’ and represented by Oscar the Grouch. Which would the market value more?

two forks: one is called Solana ticker SOL, and has logos one is called Gorbag ticker GOR and has grouch.png as a logo which is going to be valuable?