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Gigaverse Names Gigabattler Overall Winner of Its First Community Hackathon

Gigaverse picked Gigabattler by NomadTreepwood as the overall winner of GIGATHON 1, its first community hackathon, from 28 submitted projects across six categories.

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How Aborean Works: ABX, veABX Locking, and the Ascension Rebate

Aborean's Ethereum veABX rebate program, branded Ascension, filled on July 22, 2026 with 80 million veABX locked. Here's how ABX locking, voting, and rewards work on the Abstract DEX ahead of its planned Ethereum deployment.

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YGG Play's July 31 Shutdown: A Game-by-Game Guide

Every YGG Play title hits its deadline July 31: LOL Land and Waifu Sweeper shut down for good, while GIGACHADBAT and Ragnarok Breaker keep running under new studio maintainers — here is what to do before the cutoff.

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How to Fund, Trade, and Cash Out on DYLI's Collectibles Marketplace

DYLI now lets collectors deposit crypto from Ethereum, Solana, Base, Arbitrum, Polygon, Binance, or Bitcoin directly into their account via RelayProtocol bridging — no wallet connection required — completing a funding-to-cash-out rail alongside buybacks, vaulting, and eBay resale.

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Final Bosu Expands MEMO With Universe Hub and Two New Fragments

Final Bosu shipped a public Explore hub and two new MEMO Fragments this week, then said the platform logged 4,133 unique visitors, 356 new collectors, and 1,720 fragments claimed in its first seven days.

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Inside Base's x402 Rail and Its New Push to Fund Onchain Finance

Base pointed its Ecosystem Fund at global onchain finance this week, days after the x402 payment standard it built moved under a new Linux Foundation body backed by Visa, Mastercard, and Stripe.

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Claynosaurz Micro-Series Debuts on Amazon Prime Video and Apple TV

Claynosaurz, the Solana-and-Sui NFT project, is now streaming three animated micro-episodes on Amazon Prime Video and Apple TV — a preview of a full 39-episode series being co-produced with Mediawan Kids & Family.

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How Shiny Works: Pack Opening, Fairness, and PSA Grading

Shiny's digital packs pay out real PSA-graded Pokémon and One Piece cards, secured by drand-based commit-reveal randomness that publishes every card's odds before the pull.

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DYLI Expands eBay Listings to Booster Packs, Boxes, and Ungraded Cards

DYLI opened eBay listings to booster packs, boxes, bundles, and ungraded cards on July 16, broadening past the graded-card-only beta it launched two weeks earlier.

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Base Creator Jesse Pollak Hands App to Cobie, Bets on Global Finance

Jesse Pollak is handing Base's consumer app to Cobie, admitting his social-driven adoption bet "was wrong" as Base pivots to become "the blockchain for global finance."

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LOL Land Sunset: How to Unstake $LOL and Swap Points for $YGG

LOL Land issued a final reminder on July 16: unstake $LOL and swap point balances for $YGG before the game retires July 31, 2026.

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Pudgy Penguins Joins Kakawow, Sells Out Debut Card Presale in Hours

Pudgy Penguins joined Kakawow's collectible-card platform alongside Disney, Marvel and Harry Potter's existing card lines, and the first Pudgy-branded presale — 200 boxes at $99 each, run through DYLI and Kakawow parent Suplay Inc. — sold out in about three hours.

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YGG Sunset, Three Chain Migrations: Abstract's Hard 2026 in Context

YGG cut 35 staff and sunset YGG Play citing an unsustainable market, the same stretch Kabu, Final Bosu and most of Fugz relocated off Abstract to Ethereum — and Base's own founder called Q1 2026 a punch in the face.

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Pudgy Penguins Launches Weekly Live Shopping on TikTok and Whatnot

Pudgy Penguins is starting a weekly livestream shopping series on TikTok and Whatnot on July 15, 2026, with three recurring themed shows — Date Night, Polly's World, and Pengu's World — each including viewer giveaways.

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GUGO Miles Audit Recovers 136 Transactions, Catches Wallet-Hopping Seller

GUGO's Miles engine audit recovered 136 missing transactions and caught a wallet-hopping seller: "Miles don't care how clever you are. They only ask: did you stay?"

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The Plooshies is searching for a new owner after revenue fell short

The Web3 gaming brand said in a July 9 thread that revenue alone could not cover team and infrastructure costs, and it is searching for a new owner, operator, or strategic partner. Founder Viktor is stepping back from day-to-day X and Discord activity but remains in contact with the search.

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Tollan Universe's Overworld Expansion Teases Pudgy Penguins Integration

Tollan Universe announced Tollan Overworld on July 10 — a persistent hub extending beyond dungeon runs and horde battles, paired with a teased Pudgy Penguins-themed "Penguin Box."

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Fugz Nears Full ETH Migration as Its Abstract Ecosystem Tops 10K Holders

Fugz now counts 10,117 unique holders and 22,329 assets across Abstract, even as its 5,555-piece PFP collection sits 85%+ migrated to Ethereum mainnet.

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How the Gigamarket Works: Trading Gigaverse ROMs and Giglings

Gigaverse's Gigamarket now lists and trades ROMs and Giglings natively, in ETH or GIGABIT, with access available outside the game itself.

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How Anichess Works: Kingslay, Spells, and Season 9's Daily Circuit

Anichess’s Season 9: "The Circuit" went live July 9, 2026, turning the spell-chess game’s competitive calendar into two tournaments every day of the week — here is how Kingslay, the spell system, and the $CHECK/M8 economy underneath it actually work.

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New Tournament and Skin Head to Franky's Adventures as FrankyGo's SBTs Close

Franky's Adventures is adding a new tournament and a new in-game skin the week of July 13, 2026, the team confirmed — landing just as FrankyGo's tiered Season 3 SBT claim window has closed.

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Abstract Eases Streak Resets on Portal, and How XP Rewards Work

A missed day no longer zeroes out a Portal streak: Abstract said July 10 it now steps a streak down to the nearest milestone reached instead of resetting it, and here is how XP, badges, and ranks work around it.

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Bigcoin's Rise, Handover, and the Launchpad That Never Shipped

Bigcoin's Abstract mining game reportedly reached tens of thousands of users by its April 2025 peak. A founder's exit and an audited-but-unshipped launchpad plan, Merge Mining, left it drifting by early 2026.

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Bigtoshi Pivots to a New Token — Bigcoin Team Says "No Affiliation"

The team that inherited Bigcoin from its pseudonymous founder posted a pinned notice disavowing his new token on July 10 — the same day BIG hit an all-time low.

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Zero To Hero's Path From Web3 Playboys to an Ethereum Mainnet Academy

Zero To Hero Academy's collaborations went live July 6 and a limited pre-sale is coming — the Ethereum mainnet extension of the Abstract-native Zero To Hero brand, built on a summer of viral TikTok growth and community events.

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Maze of Gains 2.0: What Onchain Heroes Rebuilt, and What Its Playtest Showed

Onchain Heroes rebuilt its Maze of Gains dungeon crawler around a new battle system and persistent upgrades, then proved it out with an incentivized playtest — 399 players, 4,651 runs, and 500 Arcade Keys on the line.

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Sugartown, the Zynga-born web3 game, is winding down

D20 Labs, the studio that bought Sugartown from Zynga in 2024, said on July 8 it is shutting down all services and will hand the game's IP to the community. Some holders questioned the move; the team addressed where the money went.

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Kabu Completes Migration From Abstract to Ethereum, Trading Now Open

Kabu's NFT collection has fully migrated to Ethereum: trading is live on a new contract, EVM-wallet holders were auto-airdropped, and a claim portal for remaining holders opens July 11.

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Kona's 72-Hour Multi-Chain Build-Out: What's Live, What's Still Coming

Kona launched a Solana DEX, a KonaSOL liquid-staking token, and a new Abstract protocol-fee staking pool within about 48 hours — but the Abstract fee flow is still "coming soon," and Kona's own DEX page shows the Solana side trading on roughly $504 in liquidity across 12 holders.

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A Player's Guide to Cambria's V0.2.4 Dungeon Update

Cambria's Patch V0.2.4 rebuilds the end of every Dungeons run around a single climactic Showdown floor, adds the SIGIL and Variance Picker systems, and reworks the risk-reward math on Cursed Pact — here's how each piece works and what it costs to play.

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How Gigling Racing Works in Gigaverse: A Player's Guide

Gigaverse's Gigling Racing fills up to 8 Gigling slots a race, splits ETH entry fees by a host-set payout, and settles every result onchain via a custom Race Oracle on Abstract.

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Kona's $PUNCH Airdrop Snapshot Lands July 15: Mechanics and Open Questions

Kona and Kona Kitty holders have 12 days before KittyPunch's July 15 $PUNCH snapshot, where a rising "Punch Score" rewards accumulating $KONA and penalizes selling — on a token trading roughly $6,500 a day with a supply fixed near 17,500 tokens, and a $PUNCH token whose total supply and allocation remain undisclosed.

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Yield Guild Games Sunsets YGG Play, Retiring LOL Land and Waifu Sweeper

YGG is sunsetting YGG Play by August 1 — retiring LOL Land and Waifu Sweeper on Abstract, cutting 35 roles, and pivoting to a B2B pipeline supplying gaming data to AI companies.

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Migrating Kabu NFTs From Abstract to Ethereum Before the July 10 Deadline

Kabu freezes its NFT collection on Abstract at 5pm EST on July 10 -- holders must move Kabu NFTs to an EVM-compatible wallet before the snapshot to receive an automatic Ethereum airdrop.

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Tollan Universe Season 5: The Sky Conquest Mechanics, Explained

Season 5's weekly prize pool now pays fixed percentages to the top 10 finishers, with everyone else earning a share proportional to Powerboard Points — and a 300,000-point floor to qualify at all.

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Moody Madness Adds Hamieverse IP to Its Kart Racer; Badge Unlocks NFT Prize Draw

Hamieverse's IP entered the Abstract-based racer on June 30, with event missions unlocking an exclusive kart and a badge that enters players into a draw for Hamieverse and Moody Archives NFTs. Neither project has said how long the event runs.

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LOL Land Fun House Club: How Squads, Chat, and PvP Leaderboards Work

LOL Land's new Fun House update lets players build clubs of up to 50 members for a one-time 1,000 Premium Point fee, then compete for the top five spots on the new Fun House Frenzy PvP leaderboard.

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Souls.club opens Stage III Incubation for Digital Insects on Abstract

Souls.club has switched on Stage III Incubation for its Digital Insects collection on Abstract, letting holders merge an egg with a capsule and send the pair to incubate ahead of a later Stage IV reveal.

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Moody Madness 2.0's World Cup Season Is Now Live on Abstract With a Free AI Assistant

The kart-racing game retired its original eight-season run and shipped a 2.0 overhaul on Abstract on June 15, opening the World Cup Season with a free Legendary AI Assistant bundled into the Battle Pass.

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Final Bosu Unveils MEMO Identity Device and Plans a Beta

Final Bosu introduced MEMO, a thumbprint-authenticated identity device for its web3 ecosystem, and said a public beta with AI moderation, wallet linking, and gamified onboarding would follow within weeks.

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Blupets Follows Its Ethereum Reveal With a Canvas Customization Tool

After opening its reveal on Ethereum with no rarity tiers, Bunya's onchain pixel-pet project Blupets is shipping a Bluprint merge planner, an "unshaped" Origin pet, and a Canvas customization feature due next week.

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Pudgy Penguins Crosses 10,000 Retail Stores Across the UK, US, Asia and Australia

Pudgy Penguins says its toys and merchandise are now stocked in more than 10,000 stores across the UK, US, Asia and Australia, calling the footprint enough to reach "hundreds of millions of people" — the same round-number store count CoinDesk and KuCoin had already reported earlier this year.

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Kona Closes $KONA Minting Window, Caps Supply Near 17,500 as Token Goes Live on Solana

Kona's mint window for $KONA closed at the July 2 cutoff it set on June 22, permanently capping supply near 17,500 as the token moves onto a LayerZero bridge Kona owns, live on both Abstract and Solana.

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Pudgy Penguins Pushes Vibes TCG Season 3 Into Target and Barnes & Noble Nationwide

A cryptic June 8 post promised "something special" without saying what. In the weeks since, Pudgy Penguins pushed its Vibes trading card game into national retail and shipped a KAST soulbound-token series — though it hasn't tied any of it to the original tease.

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Gigling Racing Logs 7,000 Races and 70,000 Transactions in Week One on Abstract

Gigaverse's standalone racing game hit 300 community races in its first three hours, crossed 1,000 in 18 hours, and ended week one with $250 paid to creators — all organic, according to founder @0xDith.

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Cambria's Dungeons Hit $80K Daily Risked Volume as Pendant Auction Nears Close

The risk-to-earn MMO on Abstract reported $80,000 a day in dungeon risked volume as of June 22 — roughly $2M annualized — and has since opened a live Pendant auction and detailed the Gold Rush Season 4 feature slate.

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LOL Land Opens Its Beach Day Board to Non-Holders Through July 9

The YGG Play board game on Abstract is letting players without the Beach Day board's NFT in for free from June 4 to July 9, then extended the same window to its Garden of Zen board through July 23.

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Kona Kitties Launch on Abstract, Holders Eligible for $PUNCH Airdrop; Snapshot Set for July 15

Kona DeFi minted its Kitties NFT collection on Abstract in early June and linked holders to an incoming $PUNCH airdrop from KittyPunch's new perpetual DEX. The team has since revealed three utility layers for the NFT and an off-chain points currency called Shells.

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Yield Guild Games Launches vibecode.gg, a Hub for Vibe-Coded Games

YGG announced vibecode.gg on June 16, a central hub for discovering, reviewing, and building AI-powered vibe-coded games, extending a push it ran through a 120-team hackathon in Seoul. The guild has not yet detailed how the hub reviews or lists games.

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Waifu Sweeper Goes Free-to-Play on Abstract

YGG Play's Minesweeper-inspired Waifu Sweeper has switched to free-to-play on Abstract, giving new accounts a free character and 300 energy, then followed with a weekly Mine & Craft competition.

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DYLI's Digital Packs Beta Sells Out in Under 12 Hours, Led by Vibes TCG

DYLI's new Digital Packs format launched June 19 with Vibes TCG Set 3 and sold out the same day. The platform has since added visual receipts and teased Pokemon packs as the next drop.

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FrankyGo Mints Nearly 20,000 Fox Plushy NFTs as Event Cadence Picks Up on Abstract

FrankyGo has minted close to 20,000 soulbound Fox Plushy NFTs with claims that ran through June 26, then followed with a holders poker party and a new workshop series — a pickup in cadence for the Abstract game from Lonely Lily Studios.

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Anichess Opens Its 'Road to Magnus' Bracket to All Players

The Animoca-built Web3 chess game turned an invitational into an open qualifier, giving any player a path to a seat against world champion Magnus Carlsen — first online, then on a live stage in Hong Kong.

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Kona Caps $KONA Supply and Goes Omnichain on Its Own Bridging After deBridge Disconnect

Kona DeFi deployed its own FROTH bridge and a LayerZero OFT adapter taking $KONA to Solana, and capped $KONA supply near 17,500 at a July 2 cutoff, after deBridge ended support for Abstract.

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Pudgy Party shuts down as Igloo Inc consolidates on Pudgy World

Igloo Inc has shut down Pudgy Party, the Pudgy Penguins mobile game, less than a year after its August 2025 launch, pulling it from iOS and Android to focus on the browser game Pudgy World.

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God the Dog ($GOD): The Heartfelt Memecoin Championing Underdogs on Abstract Chain

God the Dog ($GOD) stands apart in the memecoin landscape. Built on Abstract Chain by creator nishseq, this token transforms a year-long character development project into a Web3 movement celebrating resilience, self-belief, and the power of never giving up.

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GUGO: The Running Duck That Became Abstract Chain's Cultural Movement

GUGO ($GUGO) has emerged as one of the most distinctive meme coins on Abstract Chain, transforming from a simple token into a community-driven movement centered around an unlikely protagonist: a duck that never stops running.

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