On December 31, 2024 local time, Elon Musk, the world’s richest man and CEO of Tesla, changed his nickname on social platform X to “Kekius Maximus”.
CoinGecko data shows that before Musk changed his nickname, the price of Kekius Maximus was around $0.0112. After changing the nickname, the price of Kekius Maximus soared, rising more than 9 times on December 31, 2024. On January 1, 2025, the price of Kekius Maximus continued to rise, reaching a high of $0.40. Currently, the price of Kekius Maximus is fluctuating around $0.3495, with a total market value exceeding $330 million, an increase of over 3000% compared to before Musk updated his nickname.
Early this morning, Musk changed his username on the X platform back to his original English name - Elon Musk. The behavior of Musk suddenly changing his nickname has caused his 210 million “fans” to speculate about the meaning of this mysterious new name—it is a combination of an alternative right-wing symbol, a meme coin, and the name of the protagonist in the movie “Gladiator”. Musk also changed his avatar to the image of the popular cartoon character “Pepe the Frog”, who is dressed in Roman clothing and holding a video game controller. $PEPE {spot}(PEPEUSDT) $DOGE {spot}(DOGEUSDT) $BNB (BNBUSDT){spot}