I’m honestly extremely disappointed, and I don’t think I’ll ever trust Luca again.
I joined @AbstractChain during testnet in July 2024. I built a French community, made thousands of tweets about Abstract, and streamed over 1,500 hours on Abstract Mainnet in 2025.
I spent thousands of dollars and accumulated 4M XP over 1 year and 10 months.
And in the end, they shut down the chain while they were still only in Phase 1 of 3 of their blockchain roadmap.
I honestly don’t even have the words...
Abstract is winding down.
Starting today, all of @IglooInc's focus will go towards taking Pudgy Penguins, Pudgy NFTs, and $PENGU to the next level.
When we acquired Frame in the summer of 2024, the vision was to build the blockchain for consumer crypto. Pudgy Penguins had shown us what it meant to reach the masses, and we believed we could bring that same approach to building a chain.
Abstract achieved a lot in a short period of time; we built the Portal and AGW, onboarded major global brands, amassed over 300 million transactions, and grew a vibrant onchain ecosystem.
The journey became stifled by the lack of a DeFi ecosystem, insufficient liquidity, minimal institutional cross-over, and prohibitively high costs that impeded growth in winning areas.
Unknown to most, Igloo, Inc. had been funding Abstract over the last 18 months.
After losing tens of millions of dollars over two years, building consumer products, assembling an all-star team, onboarding some of the biggest brands in the world, and building a community of millions, we still had not found product-market fit.
In combination with the market's reduced appetite for what we had built and not being able to find a scalable path forward, we could no longer justify taking from the Pudgy Penguins business.
Igloo, Inc. has always been a community-first company. Even after losing 8 figures, we could have launched a token or pursued an ICO.
Ultimately we decided against this. A token only works if there is something driving demand to it, and launching a token that we don’t have conviction in would have been a disservice to our community.
The entire team at Abstract has worked tirelessly with a tremendous amount of passion to make the consumer crypto vision come true. I cannot fault a single one of them for this outcome.
To the Abstract community, I want to thank all of you for sticking by our side on this long journey and for continuing to champion us. You supported us through all of the ups and downs, and I wish the result could have been different.
There will be many that will find satisfaction in seeing this shut down, and that is fine. I take a great amount of pride in having the ambition to venture into the chain business, notoriously one of the most difficult to make work, and the only regret I have is not being able to celebrate a win alongside the Abstract community.
As we wind down Abstract, our full focus shifts to making Pudgy Penguins into the global & cultural phenomenon I know it can become.
Return to Pudgy Penguins.
Lobby is live @YieldFields_RH
My pig is now following me around because I minted my NFT 🐷
I also customized my avatar’s appearance!
🚨 REVEAL POSTPONED TO OCTOBER 22! ⏳
The Player Lobby is live 🧑🌾
We're taking a few more days to polish the Deed reveal, so it's moving to Thursday, Oct 22.
But to keep you from waiting, we're shipping the first piece of Yield Fields today. 👀
Come in and say GM to your fellow farmers!
https://t.co/cHF3ymjZ2N
Lobby is live @YieldFields_RH
My pig is now following me around because I minted my NFT 🐷
I also customized my avatar’s appearance!
🚨 REVEAL POSTPONED TO OCTOBER 22! ⏳
PSA: Game functionality will be migrated off of the Blast and Abstract chains on October 19th at 11am ET. Game treasuries and unclaimed Duel Arena stakes on these chains will be moved to @base and @ethereum mainnet as part of the migration to prevent loss. Expect 30min of downtime during this transition.
Contracts for our upcoming Genesis MMO are not yet deployed, and will not be affected.
For more info, see our patch notes for this update:
https://t.co/TtGvSf4mgf
https://t.co/byPpLo6uCq