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.
Gigaverse's Gigamarket now lists and trades the game's ROMs and Giglings directly, Gigaverse announced on July 10, 2026 — tradeable in ETH or GIGABIT, with access available outside the game itself. Gigaverse, built by GLHF on Abstract, already ran the Gigamarket as a general item marketplace; ROMs and Giglings are the newest asset types folded into that same order book. Gigaverse's own team has said the game counts more than 75,000 players and over $10 million in marketplace volume to date, per an earlier update from Gigaverse's founder — the scale the July 10 change plugs ROMs and Giglings into.
How listing and trading works
Per Gigaverse's own Gigamarket documentation, the marketplace supports:
- an onchain order book covering four item categories — Materials, Consumables, Skins, and Collectibles
- a realtime ETH-to-USD value indicator
- bulk buying and bulk listing
- listing at the current floor price
- item filtering and an inventory refresh after a purchase
- a system the docs call "Gigus Maximus" that monitors trading behavior on the Gigamarket
The same documentation states the Gigamarket logged more than 250,000 items traded in its first two weeks — a general marketplace figure that predates the ROM/Gigling-specific listing feature. Gigaverse's docs describe these mechanics for "Game Items" broadly and do not name ROMs or Giglings specifically — the July 10 update adds them as a new listing capability inside that existing marketplace. EGamers reported that ROM trading went live in the Gigamarket supporting both ETH and GIGABIT, corroborating Gigaverse's own announcement.
What a ROM and a Gigling actually are
A Gigaverse ROM is one of 10,000 NFTs on Abstract, split across four tiers — Silver (5,800), Gold (3,200), Void (850), and Giga (150) — that function as resource factories, passively generating Abstract Stubs and additional in-game energy for their holders. Before the Gigamarket update, ROMs already traded on a secondary market — Gigaverse's own documentation points to a dedicated ROMs collection on OpenSea — so the July 10 change adds an in-game venue alongside that existing OpenSea listing.
A Gigling starts life as an egg — an Inaugural Egg or a ROM Egg — that goes through a hatching process; a ROM Egg specifically hatches into an Inaugural Steed and drops a separate ROMling. Hatched Giglings are currently used in Gigling Racing; Gigaverse's documentation says a Gigling's future role also includes breeding, without describing how breeding will work or what it will do to supply.
Paying in ETH or GIGABIT
Beyond ETH, Gigamarket trades can settle in GIGABIT, a fixed-rate in-game currency EGamers reported launched alongside Gigaverse's first anniversary and the "Gigaverse 1.0" update: 100 GIGABIT buys for $1, while cashing out returns $0.80 per 100 GIGABIT, split 15 cents to player rewards and 5 cents to developer GLHFers. Gigaverse's own documentation does not carry a dedicated GIGABIT page as of this writing; the rate above rests on outlet reporting rather than Gigaverse's own site.
What's not specified yet
Gigaverse's Gigamarket documentation describes how to list, buy, and filter items but does not state a listing or trading fee for any asset, ROMs and Giglings included. Gigling breeding remains a stated future feature with no mechanics, timeline, or supply effect published. Gigaverse's own docs also do not carry a page dedicated to GIGABIT itself — its exchange rate and design are documented only through outlet reporting, not the studio's own site.
Gigaverse's founder said in June the studio is building a broader "dynamic economy" for Gigaverse 1.0 — regional bonuses, resource hotspots, and city-specific supply and demand — as a follow-on to the current flat economy. No release date has been set for that update, and Gigaverse has not said whether ROM and Gigling trading on the Gigamarket will change once it ships.
Sources
- Gigamarket — Gigaverse's own docs on marketplace mechanics and trade volume.
- Gigaverse ROMs — supply, tiers, and function.
- Gigaverse Giglings — egg types, hatching, current and future utility.
- Gigaverse Brings ROM Trading To The Gigamarket, Now Backed By GIGABIT — third-party confirmation of the July 10 update.
- Gigaverse Launches GIGABIT Currency, Modeled After Robux — GIGABIT's fixed exchange rate.