{"id":23653,"date":"2025-05-05T11:11:17","date_gmt":"2025-05-05T08:11:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/elon-musk-sparks-surge-in-gork-tokens\/"},"modified":"2025-05-05T11:11:17","modified_gmt":"2025-05-05T08:11:17","slug":"elon-musk-sparks-surge-in-gork-tokens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/elon-musk-sparks-surge-in-gork-tokens\/","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk Sparks Surge in &#8216;Gork Tokens&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Elon Musk changed his name and profile picture on X to gorklon rust, triggering a sharp rise in related meme coins, with some doubling in value within a day.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Snimok-ekrana-2025-05-05-102810.webp\" alt=\"Snimok-ekrana-2025-05-05-102810\" class=\"wp-image-258058\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/elonmusk\">X<\/a>.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Gork is a parody account of Grok, the AI from Musk&#8217;s startup xAI. The character is known for provocative responses and has amassed over 116,000 followers on X.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Snimok-ekrana-2025-05-05-102957.webp\" alt=\"Snimok-ekrana-2025-05-05-102957\" class=\"wp-image-258059\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/gork\">X<\/a>.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Within hours of the post, new gork coins emerged. Some projects saw prices rise by about 100%, and the market capitalization of the New XAI Gork (GORK) token exceeded $62 million, ranking third in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.coingecko.com\/en\/highlights\/trending-crypto\">CoinGecko&#8217;s trending<\/a> list.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"478\" src=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Snimok-ekrana-2025-05-05-103607-1024x478.png\" alt=\"Snimok-ekrana-2025-05-05-103607\" class=\"wp-image-258060\" srcset=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Snimok-ekrana-2025-05-05-103607-1024x478.png 1024w, https:\/\/forklog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Snimok-ekrana-2025-05-05-103607-300x140.png 300w, https:\/\/forklog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Snimok-ekrana-2025-05-05-103607-768x358.png 768w, https:\/\/forklog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Snimok-ekrana-2025-05-05-103607.png 1256w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/dexscreener.com\/search?q=gork\">DEX Screener<\/a>.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Musk announced the name change with a brief message:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p><em>&#8220;Hey, Gork, changed my avatar to yours. What do you think?&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">looks good i guess <br \/>but did u have to copy my whole face like that smh<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 gork (@gork) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/gork\/status\/1919087187976651135?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 4, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The Gork account replied:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p><em>&#8220;Looks fine. But why copy my entire face?&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The excitement began to fade as quickly as it arose, with some tokens dropping in value by tens of percent in the last hour.<\/p>\n<p>Back in March, journalist Colin Wu <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/elon-musks-ai-bot-grok-promotes-memecoin-named-after-itself\">reported<\/a> that Grok, after a series of leading questions, suggested the name GrokCoin for its meme coin and provided a contract address.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elon Musk changed his name and profile picture on X to gorklon rust, triggering a sharp rise in related meme coins, with some doubling in value within a day. Source: X. Gork is a parody account of Grok, the AI from Musk&#8217;s startup xAI. The character is known for provocative responses and has amassed over [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23652,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"","news_style_id":"","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1217,1493,1161],"class_list":["post-23653","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-elon-musk","tag-explainable-ai","tag-memes"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"58","promo_type":"","layout_type":"","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23653","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23653"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23653\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23652"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}