George Tsagkarakis
Gigaverse (official site) has set a deadline of 1st December for owners of its Gigling NFTs to migrate them off Abstract. Gigling Racing, the race mode that Giglings give access to, will come back later in a reworked form. To migrate, owners connect an Ethereum wallet through the studio’s migration site.
The deadline is tied to the Abstract shutdown, which is dated for 15th December.
What changes for Gigling Racing
Gigling Racing won’t come back straight away. Gigaverse says the mode will relaunch some time after Gigaverse Online goes live, and the studio is using the time in between to rethink how racing works. It wants to cut the friction and the number of transactions a player needs to enter a race, so the mode costs less to play and holds up at scale.
Giglings are the pets and mounts that noobs ride around the world, and owning one is what gets a player into Gigling Racing.
Giglings move to the Gigamarket
After Abstract, Giglings will no longer trade as NFTs on an open marketplace. They will be tradeable only on the Gigamarket, Gigaverse’s own marketplace, priced in Gigabit. Players can buy Gigabit with crypto on any chain or with fiat. Gigaverse says this setup lets Gigling traits update live as they evolve and makes the pets work across chains and platforms. The studio aims to have Giglings tradeable on the Gigamarket before the end of 2026.
Gigaverse has also said its new Giga Legends will be the NFT collection the game operates. What they will do in future products is not yet clear.
Other Gigaverse deadlines
The Gigling cutoff is one of several. The others are:
- Abstract Global Wallet users have until 15th November to link an EVM wallet. If they don’t, they lose 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 built its following on Abstract. It is now being remade as Gigaverse Online, a persistent MMORPG, and almost everything the studio had on Abstract has to be moved, rebuilt or retired.
Other games are in the same position, but Gigaverse is one of the most active on Abstract and its migration is the most visible. The number of Giglings moved by 1st December will show how many of its players are still following the game. When Gigling Racing returns, it will be the first test of whether a simpler onchain mode with fewer transactions can keep an audience after the move.
