Developers switched on the first Gorbagana testnet less than 24 hours after Solana co-founder Anatoly Yakovenko’s decentralisation tweet on 18 June 2025.

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June 20, 2025

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Within 24 hours of toly’s tweet, GORBAGANA chain goes live.

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

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Week 25 of 2025