Gorbagana is a community-driven fork of the Solana blockchain conceived by crypto lawyer Gabriel Shapiro and first deployed on 20 June 2025 by the pseudonymous developer MidTermDev.

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By June 20, the developer going by @Sarv_shaktiman had deployed an early-stage fork of Solana v1.18.26.

Gorbagana (GOR) is a community-driven, meme-originated fork of Solana, born out of a playful debate on decentralization.

The copycat blockchain, dubbed Gorbagana, originated from a satirical back-and-forth between crypto lawyer Gabriel Shapiro and Solana co-founder Anatoly Yakovenko over whether decentralisation can exist when one entity controls a protocol’s branding.

The first version of the Gorbagana blockchain and its token were launched by a pseudonymous developer who goes by MidTermDev.