In Brief:
- Gigaverse (official site) spotlighted GigaPrix, a tournament tool for its Gigling racing game, created by community developer @web3_shadowking.
- What the tool eliminates is the manual labor of chaining individual staked races together into a tournament — a request players have made since racing went live.
- Until now, Gigling racing has operated on one-off races, each carrying its own organizer-set entry fee, distance and item rules.
In a post that filed the project under the heading “Community & Social,” Gigaverse directed players toward GigaPrix, a tournament tool for Gigling racing developed by @web3_shadowking.
Automation is the selling point. Previously, anyone who wanted to stage a series of races had to configure every single one and keep track of the results themselves.
Community & Social → GigaPrix by @web3_shadowking
Since Gigling racing was launched, a widely requested feature was tournaments of races, instead of one-offs.
Gigaprix changed that completely by eliminating the need to manage tournaments of individual races manually.
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Ever since Gigling racing debuted, “a widely requested feature was tournaments of races, instead of one-offs,” Gigaverse noted in the post. According to the post, GigaPrix “changed that completely by eliminating the need to manage tournaments of individual races manually.”
How racing works now
Gigling racing is a staked horse racing game that launched on Abstract and is hosted at giglingracing.com. Playing it doesn’t require a Gigaverse account.
Races are player-organized. Whoever sets one up decides the ETH entry fee, the distance, and whether items are enabled — those include performance-boosting butterflies and disruptive dung. Eight Giglings fit in a single race, and item usage can be switched on or off.
The winner collects 90% of the entry fees gathered.
Every one of those races resolves independently. GigaPrix exists to fill that gap.
What the runners bring
Each Gigling carries four race-phase stats alongside non-numerical attributes: gender, rarity, faction and preferred track conditions. Certain traits remain concealed and only reveal themselves later, under conditions like specific weather.
Higher stat floors and additional traits come with rare Giglings. Winning still isn’t guaranteed.
There’s also aging. A Gigling’s racing career is finite, and breeding serves as population control, which nudges owners toward maintaining a stable across generations instead of relying on one runner. Giglings can be traded, hatched, raced and dueled.
Outside builders
Third-party developers have been a recruitment target for Gigaverse. The studio ran GIGATHON #1, its debut hackathon, spanning six categories with $200 in rewards attached to each.
Coverage dated the event June 15 to 26, while Gigaverse’s own post placed it from the 15th to the 25th. The brief called for apps, mods and tools that broaden the ecosystem, with Gigling racing and the community specifically named, and Gigaverse urged participants to build with AI. Dashboards, analytics and onboarding utilities were among the submissions.
The hackathon arrived during a crowded period for the category. MapleStory Universe (official site) held its Vibe Camp, and EVE Frontier staged its first hackathon back in March, centered on mods and third-party tools. CCP handed out $80,000 there, with a $25,000 grand prize going to CradleOS, a civilization-building mod.
Events and ladders
Structured competition has already surfaced in other guises. An ELO rank exists for Gigaverse Giglings, with players chasing top-eight placements and trait rewards.
A crossover with Cambria also ran from June 23 to 27. That event featured 200 free-entry races, each awarding 25 Cambria dungeon keys, held twice a day at 8:00 a.m. and 8:00 p.m. UTC.
And then there are the GigaGod races, which flip the format on its head. Four players race to finish last. Last place claims the whole ETH prize pool, plus a 1,000 $GOD bonus airdropped once the event wraps and an exclusive limited edition god skin NFT in Gigaverse.
Competitors show up with their slowest Gigling and their best dung.