Gigaverse (official site) has told owners of its Gigling NFTs that they have until 1st December to migrate them off Abstract. Owners do this by connecting an Ethereum wallet on the studio’s migration site. Gigling Racing, the race mode that Giglings unlock, will return later in a reworked form.
The cutoff comes from the Abstract shutdown, which is scheduled for 15th December.
What changes for Gigling Racing
Gigling Racing won’t return right away. Gigaverse says it plans to relaunch the mode at some point after Gigaverse Online goes live. Until then, the studio is reworking how racing functions. Its goal is to reduce the friction and the number of transactions needed to enter a race, which would make the mode cheaper to play and let it hold up at scale.
Giglings are the pets and mounts that noobs ride across the world. A player needs to own one to take part in Gigling Racing.
Giglings move to the Gigamarket
Once Abstract is gone, Giglings will stop trading as NFTs on an open marketplace. The only place to trade them will be the Gigamarket, Gigaverse’s in-house marketplace, where prices are set in Gigabit. Gigabit can be bought with crypto on any chain or with fiat. According to Gigaverse, this setup means Gigling traits can update live as the pets evolve, and the pets can work across chains and platforms. The studio’s target is to make Giglings tradeable on the Gigamarket before the end of 2026.
Gigaverse has also said the game will operate its new Giga Legends as its NFT collection. Their role in future products hasn’t been made clear yet.
Other Gigaverse deadlines
The Gigling deadline sits alongside a few others:
- Abstract Global Wallet users have until 15th November to link an EVM wallet. Anyone who misses it loses access to their accounts and items.
- ROM holders have been told to act on the Giga Legends mint window before Abstract winds down.
The wider picture
Gigaverse is a browser roguelike that grew its player base on Abstract. The studio is now rebuilding it as Gigaverse Online, a persistent MMORPG, so nearly everything it had on Abstract has to be moved, rebuilt or retired.
Other games face the same problem. Gigaverse is one of the most active games on Abstract, though, and its migration is the most visible one. How many Giglings get moved by 1st December will indicate how many players are still following the game. Gigling Racing’s return will be the first test of whether a simpler onchain mode with fewer transactions can hold on to an audience after the move.