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

Gigaverse's Gigling Racing logged more than 7,000 completed races and 70,000 on-chain transactions in its first week on Abstract, with $250 paid out to race creators — numbers @0xDith posted without advertising spend attached.

From Announcement to 1,000 Races in 18 Hours

@0xDith announced on June 4 that a new racing game would go live the following day on Abstract. The post described customizable creator fees, optional staking, and whitelist controls for race organizers — a permissioned-but-open model where anyone running a race could set their own entry-fee structure.

Gigling Racing launched June 5. Within three hours, @0xDith reported roughly 300 community-created races live on the network. By that evening, the count crossed 1,000 races in under 18 hours, a pace that prompted 0xDith to ship an ELO leaderboard and global chat in the same update.

Two days in, the game had recorded 2,100 completed races and nearly 25,000 transactions — 0xDith noted no paid promotion drove the traffic.

How the Game Works

Gigling Racing is a standalone racing mode built around NFT pets called Giglings. Each Gigling carries four primary racing stats — Start, Speed, Stamina, and Finish — which recalculate before each race, meaning statistical favoritism does not guarantee a win. Faction affiliation, gender, track-condition preferences, and hidden traits also shape outcomes.

Races seat eight Giglings per event. Organizers pay entry fees in ETH and can configure race distance and optional performance items — including what pre-launch coverage from egamers called "performance-enhancing butterflies or disruptive dung." Results settle through an on-chain Race Oracle. Of the entry fees collected, 90% flow to the race winner; the remainder covers a house fee, with a portion going back to the race creator.

Giglings have finite racing careers, which makes breeding — pairing a male and female to preserve strong lineage — a built-in population mechanic. Breeding was not live at launch; it is scheduled to follow the beta.

Week One: $250 to Creators, 70K Transactions

The one-week update from @0xDith on June 12 showed the open beta had logged over 7,000 races and 70,000 on-chain transactions. Total creator payouts reached $250. 0xDith said a community hackathon and breeding features are next on the roadmap.

Gigaverse also opened GIGATHON #1 on June 15, a developer hackathon that sought external builders to create dashboards, analytics tools, and companion apps for the Gigling Racing ecosystem specifically; submissions closed June 26.

On that pace — and with no paid promotion behind the launch — our read tracks 0xDith's racing game as Building.

What's Not Yet Public

One of the two questions a prospective racer would want answered has since been resolved. Giglings have finite racing careers, and breeding is the mechanic meant to refresh them — on June 30, Gigaverse revealed the breeding mechanic as a deflationary, duel-based system, though full mechanics and a ship date have not been posted. What remains open: races charge entry fees in ETH, with the winner taking 90% of the pot, but no fee schedule has been posted, so what it actually costs to enter or create a race is not yet public.