In Brief:
- Two upgrades went live in GIGACHADBAT: $CHAD can now be spent on Premium Balls, and players staking $CHAD receive larger score boosters.
- Accepting the token as payment stretches its role beyond staking and into direct in-game spending — the corner of the game where Premium Mode money actually changes hands.
- The changes arrive roughly five weeks after Yield Guild Games closed YGG Play and returned the game to Delabs Games.
Premium Balls in GIGACHADBAT can now be purchased with $CHAD, according to the game, one half of a pair of token upgrades it shipped.
The other upgrade increases score boosters for anyone staking $CHAD. Further details would come in a thread, the game said.
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Two upgrades just went live in @GIGACHADBAT 🏏
• Pay for Premium Balls with $CHAD
• Bigger score boosters for $CHAD stakers
Details below 🧵@GIGACHADBATView on X ↗
A second job for the token
Staking had been the whole of $CHAD’s function inside the game up to this point. Locking tokens returned free pBalls for daily quests and premium matches, alongside in-game boosts, event access and staking-gated modes tied to league progression.
Paying directly opens a second route. On top of that sits the staking tweak, which applies to the score multipliers deployed in Premium Mode.
How the tiers work
A seven-day average determines staking tiers. The system logs a player’s lowest staked balance from the previous 24 hours every day at 00:00 UTC, then averages seven of those daily readings to fix the tier — meaning a single-day spike won’t bump anyone into a higher bracket.
Neither a cooldown nor a lock-in applies. Staking and unstaking happen at the player’s discretion.
The seven-day average staked figure comes from YGG. Delabs writes the in-game reward rules and manages distribution.
Where the balls get spent
The game divides into Free Mode and Premium Mode. Premium Mode is where players burn pBalls and apply score multipliers; land a successful hit and a Boost Card draw follows, which can shield a score or raise rewards. The full stake is lost on an “Out.” A “Foul” brings a penalty.
The publisher is gone
These upgrades follow a change of ownership. On July 6, Yield Guild Games announced it would sunset publishing arm YGG Play by Aug. 1, cut 35 employees and pivot the company toward the AI data economy.
Delabs took GIGACHADBAT back. Planetarium Labs held on to Ragnarok Breaker. Their original developers kept both titles online with new redemption flows for in-game rewards, while LOL Land and Waifu Sweeper were retired.
Delabs Play now handles reward routing. Premium points were wiped, and points banked ahead of the Aug. 1 snapshot are being airdropped as $YGG.
“a heavy decision, but it is a market decision, not a product decision,” said Gabby Dizon, co-founder of Yield Guild Games, of the shutdown.
Lifetime revenue at YGG Play topped $9.6 million, with more than $541,000 of that coming in the second quarter of 2026 across LOL Land (official site), Waifu Sweeper and GIGACHADBAT. Of the lifetime total, $8.59 million came from LOL Land alone.
Token background
February saw $CHAD debut on the YGG Play Launchpad, built on Abstract, with supply capped at 5,000,000,000 tokens. A presale ran from Feb. 4 to Feb. 6, and deployment followed on Feb. 13 at a fully diluted valuation of $500,000.
A two-season Play-to-Airdrop claimed 10% of supply. The first season ran Jan. 21 to Feb. 3 and handed out 5%, tallying in-game spend as far back as Sept. 18, 2025, subject to a $120 minimum, an opt-in requirement, a 2x multiplier on spend inside the window, and qualification limited to the top 150 players.
Trading for $CHAD happens on decentralized exchanges alone. Centralized listings aren’t in the plans, per Delabs and Yield Guild Games, which leaves $YGG as the ecosystem token found on both. Buyers have been advised by the team to keep transactions small, with $CHAD described as a low-cap token sensitive to the market.