In Brief:
- Gigaverse turned on hard core deals, a weekly item turn-in that converts stored inventory into hard cores during The Awakening.
- Accounts with an active Giga Juice subscription earn 4x hard cores per deal, matching the multiplier that applies elsewhere in the event.
- Hard core totals set the Hall of Noobs leaderboard and each player’s share of a prize pool reseeded at $30,000 USDC after a bug forced a restart.
Gigaverse switched on hard core deals, adding a weekly item turn-in that converts stored inventory into the resource deciding who gets paid out of The Awakening’s prize pool.
“hard core deals are now LIVE,” the studio said in a post on X. “turn in items weekly during The Awakening event for hard cores and climb the leaderboard.”
hard core deals are now LIVE
turn in items weekly during The Awakening event for hard cores and climb the leaderboard
reminder that giga juiced players receive 4x hard cores per deal
Players with an active Giga Juice subscription receive 4x hard cores per deal, the studio said. Juice runs about $20 a month.
How the deals fit in
Deals join Forest Dungeon and Forest Fishing as hard core sources, alongside daily and weekly quests. In the dungeon, players spend energy on runs and collect hard cores room by room, with harder encounters paying more. Silver and gold rings can be offered to raise drop rates.
The 4x Juice multiplier isn’t specific to deals. It applies to the base hard core rate across the event, and Juice also raises the number of daily attempts available for activities such as fishing. Forest energy caps still apply.
Turn-ins matter because of what players are holding. The Awakening is built to drain resources accumulated during the previous seasonal game, so old items and materials feed event equipment and consumables, and deals give that inventory a second use as leaderboard progress.
What’s in the pot
The prize pool opened at $20,000 USDC. It grows on its own: 50% of Giga Juice purchase revenue and 50% of Gigamarket trading fees generated during the event flow in.
That creates a loop worth stating plainly. Buying Juice for the 4x rate also enlarges the pool players are competing over.
When the event closes, hard core totals rank players on the Hall of Noobs. Qualifiers collect gacha boxes holding varying amounts of USDC and cosmetics, and the leaderboard stands as a permanent record.
The restart
The Awakening launched Monday, Aug. 10. It ran two days before a bug cut it short.
Gigaverse brought the event back on Aug. 12 seeded with $30,000 instead of $20,000. The extra $10,000 was compensation. The leaderboard was wiped, so every participant restarted from zero, including players who hadn’t touched the first run.
Early leaders lost their position. Latecomers got an entry point into a competition that rewards volume.
Why it’s running
The Awakening is a two-month bridge. It closes out the current version of the Abstract-based RPG and readies the economy for Gigaverse Online, the open-world social RPG replacing what the team now calls Gigaverse 1.0.
Gigaverse said it is “a few months away from launching Gigaverse Online, a new open-world social RPG, optimized for sustainability, entertainment, and broader appeal” beyond a crypto-native audience. No launch date has been given.
Egg NFTs are confirmed to carry into the open-world game. ROMs 2.0 is in development, though the team hasn’t detailed how the new system will work or how existing ROM assets will be handled. Every ROM currently produces materials weekly according to its tier, and ROM trading is live on the Gigamarket in ETH and GIGABIT.
The event was scheduled to run until Oct. 10. The restart announcement carried no new end date, and the studio never said what the bug was.
