Gigaverse has closed its first incarnation. The Awakening, a roughly 60-day event, worth over $30,000, that ran through August and September, ended on 9th October. It was the final thing to happen in what the team now calls Legacy Gigaverse. The game is now offline, legacy contracts are being wound down, and players are waiting for Gigaverse Online.
The event was built around Hard Cores, a points currency earned across six activities: dungeon runs, fishing, deals, boss fights, the in-game economy and boxes. When it ended, most items were wiped. Only eternal items such as medals and skins carry forward.
On 15th October, the studio published the results as the Hall of Noobs. This is a permanent leaderboard honoring what it calls the inaugural Gigachamps. Close to 6,000 accounts are ranked. At the top is a player called afropengu with 9,772,995 Hard Cores, almost 40% clear of nomad in second place on 7,051,739. Third was xiskool, who holds Noob #5, one of the earliest mints in the game, with 6,533,991.
Dungeons were the deciding activity. Almost every player in the top 20 ranks in the top 0.5% for dungeon runs. Fishing was the usual second string, and players who skipped it early say they never caught up.
The players’ own accounts describe The Awakening as a demanding event. Several say they logged in every day for the full two months, and one claims not to have missed a day in two years. Others are open that their finishing position cost money, whether spent on Ruby Keys for a late push or on resources and boosts. One mid-table player puts their spending on the event at around $160.
What the effort is worth is not yet known. Gigaverse says the prize pool “will become a gacha experience that rewards in USDC”, and players expect Hard Cores to be redeemable once it goes live. The studio has not published the size of the pool, a conversion rate or the minimum Hard Cores needed to qualify.
More is planned for the Hall too. Three further boards are promised, covering medals, collectors and Gigling racers. The studio says the whole thing will eventually be interactive and walkable inside Gigaverse Online.
The timing of the transition is not entirely Gigaverse’s choice. Abstract, the chain the game has run on, announced that it will shut down on 15th December. Gigaverse ROMs are due to move to Ethereum under a “ROMs 2.0” scheme, and plans for Giglings and Giganames will follow. Giganames will stay reserved for three months after Gigaverse Online opens.
Players will need to log into Gigaverse Online with their legacy wallet to reclaim their Giganame and any The Awakening rewards.
Co-founder Dith says the order of work is to finish the event, open prize claims, migrate off Abstract, and then move on to new things. Gigaverse Online has no launch date yet. One player expects an open world “later this year”, but the studio has not confirmed that.
Check out the Hall of Noobs here.