Gigaverse has given owners of its Gigling NFTs until 1st December to migrate them off Abstract.
The move comes as part of the ongoing Abstract shutdown, dated for 15th December. Gigling owners will need to connect an Ethereum wallet via the studio’s migration site.
The more interesting part of the announcement is what happens to the Gigling Racing race game. The mode is coming back, but not immediately. Gigaverse says it will relaunch some time after Gigaverse Online goes live, and it is using the gap to rethink how racing works. The aim is to cut the friction and the number of transactions a player needs to enter a race, so the mode is cheaper to play and holds up at scale.
That fits the wider shape of Gigaverse’s autumn. The browser roguelike built its following on Abstract and is now being remade as persistent MMORPG Gigaverse Online, and almost everything Gigaverse had on Abstract has to be moved, rebuilt or retired. Giglings were one of its more distinctive pieces. They are the pets and mounts that noobs ride around the world, and owning one is the ticket into Gigling Racing.
Interestingly, however, Giglings are becoming a different sort of asset post-Abstract. They won’t trade as NFTs on an open marketplace. Instead, they will be tradeable only on the Gigamarket, Gigaverse’s own marketplace, priced in Gigabit, which players can buy with crypto on any chain or with fiat. Gigaverse says this lets Gigling traits update live as they evolve, and makes the pets work across chains and platforms. It aims to have Giglings tradeable there before the end of 2026.
Gigaverse has also stated that its new Giga Legends will be the NFT collection the game operates, although their functionality in future products isn’t clear.
The Gigling deadline is one of several within the Gigaverse universe. Abstract Global Wallet users have until 15th November to link an EVM wallet or lose access to their accounts and items, and ROM holders have been told to act on the Giga Legends mint window before Abstract winds down.
Gigaverse isn’t the only game in that position, but it is one of the most active on Abstract, and its migration is the most visible. How many Giglings make the move by 1st December will be a decent measure of how many of its players are still paying attention. And when Gigling Racing does return, it will be the first test of whether a simpler, lower-transaction version of an onchain mode can keep an audience on the other side.
You can migrate your Giglings here.
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