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gork (GORK), often listed as New XAI gork, is a [[Solana]] [[meme coin]] derived from the gork parody account on X, which mimicked Elon Musk's Grok AI chatbot in a deliberately dumber, lowercase register. The token turned a running joke about artificial intelligence into a brief nine figure volume event when Musk himself adopted the persona.

## Origin

The gork account gained a following in early 2025 by replying to posts as a sort of brain damaged Grok, and Musk interacted with it repeatedly. A token followed on [[pump.fun]] through a bonding curve launch in early May 2025, with Gate's explainer recording trading volume above 100 million dollars and a market capitalization around 60 million dollars within hours of going live. The decisive catalyst came on May 3, 2025, when Musk changed his X display name to "Gorklon Rust" and set a gork themed avatar. KuCoin reported a 520 percent surge on the Musk attention, and Bybit's coverage recorded the coin going from near zero to a market capitalization above 70 million dollars within roughly 48 hours, with daily volume above 200 million dollars. Musk never acknowledged the token itself, and the coin had no connection to xAI; the entire trade was proximity to his username.

## Market history

GORK's peak came in that first week of May 2025 and was never revisited; CoinGecko records the all time high of about 0.083 dollars on May 4, 2025, an implied value above 80 million dollars against the one billion token supply. The token entered the standard decay curve once Musk's name reverted and attention moved on, sliding through the rest of 2025 alongside the broader fade of Musk adjacent meme plays that BeInCrypto documented as his market moving power weakened. Phemex's 2026 guide recorded the market capitalization collapsing to well under 1 million dollars by February 2026, with most trading volume gone. The coin persists as a listed small cap and a periodic target of revival attempts whenever Musk posts anything AI related.

## Cultural impact

gork is the cleanest late era specimen of the Musk signal trade, the pattern running from Dogecoin onward in which a Musk gesture, however oblique, becomes a buy order. That the gesture here was a display name change monetized within minutes is cited in [[the trenches]] as both the peak efficiency and the terminal absurdity of the pattern: by 2025 the market had automated the loop from billionaire shitpost to nine figure volume. GORK also marks the AI parody subgenre of the [[ai agent meta]], coins about AI rather than run by it, and its fast collapse is used as evidence for how little durability celebrity signal trades retained by the late cycle.

## References

- https://phemex.com/academy/gork-token-meme-coin-overview-guide
- https://www.gate.com/learn/articles/gork-from-parody-account-to-explosive-solana-meme-coin-what-makes-it-a-market-sensation/8852
- https://www.bybit.com/en/learn/ai/what-is-gork-meme-coin
- https://www.kucoin.com/news/articles/elon-musk-tweet-sparks-520-surge-in-gork-meme-coin-value
- https://beincrypto.com/musks-influence-on-meme-coins-fading-2025/
- https://www.coingecko.com/en/coins/new-xai-gork

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