Bearish AF Steps Up to the Plate with GIGACHADBAT in a Big Four Boss Raid

YGG Play is expanding its Casual Degen ecosystem with a major in-game IP crossover. Its hit baseball title GIGACHADBAT is teaming up with Bearish, the second most prominent IP on Abstract after Pudgy Penguins, to bring an exclusive, gameplay-native collaboration directly to players.

From January 31 to February 3, 2026, the Bearish "Big Four" will enter GIGACHADBAT as Bosses in a limited-time Boss Raid: Barry “The OG,” Bella “The Heartbreaker,” Scotty “The Street Bear,” and Toli “The Chaos King.” The "CHAD Raid" focuses on competitive progression, offering participants 2x points toward the GIGACHADBAT Play-to-Airdrop (P2A) leaderboards.

“Bearish has grown by building products and IP that people actually want to use,” said Toli, co-founder of Bearish. “Partnering with YGG Play is about plugging into an ecosystem that understands games, communities, and how to scale them globally. YGG knows how to turn strong IP into addictive gameplay, and CHAD Raids bring Bearish into GIGACHADBAT in a way that’s native to the gameplay itself.”

With over 4.8 billion GIPHY views and a combined social following of nearly 100,000 across TikTok and Instagram, Bearish represents one of the strongest community-driven identities in Web3. In January 2026, the brand surpassed household names like Pokémon, Disney, and Fortnite in daily GIF views on GIPHY. 

“One of the things we’re most excited about at YGG Play is how easily strong Web3 IP can move between games and formats,” said Gabby Dizon, co-founder of YGG. “Bearish understands that games are one of the best ways to bring an IP to life, and CHAD Raids are a great example of what happens when you put community-first IP into a gameplay loop that players actually care about. This is exactly the kind of crossover we want more of in the YGG Play ecosystem.”

The crossover comes as GIGACHADBAT prepares for the launch of its upcoming $CHAD token on the YGG Play Launchpad this February 6, 2026, with a Play-to-Airdrop campaign already underway where players earn YGG Play Points that influence leaderboard rankings and participation in the token generation event (TGE). By tying CHAD Raids into this progression system, the Bearish collaboration connects in-game competition directly to the broader $CHAD launch.

The timing also follows Bearish’s recent $BURR token launch on Aborean, a decentralized exchange and liquidity hub on Abstract. $BURR is structured as a hybrid ERC-404 asset that unifies fungible $BURR tokens and their NFT counterparts within the same ecosystem.

The Bearish ecosystem is led by Web3 veterans Toli and Scotty. Toli, the visionary behind Drip Rewards, a platform with over three million users that lets brands launch custom virtual economies to turn engagement into rewards, and Scotty, a technical lead with experience at Brawler Bearz and Origin Protocol, have positioned Bearish as a launchpad for builders. They have scaled rapidly, consistently ranking Bearish as a top 5 NFT project on Abstract by both social engagement and onchain transactions.

Following the GIGACHADBAT Boss Raid, the collaboration will expand in March 2026 with the launch of an exclusive Bearish x LOL Land Board, further cementing Bearish within YGG Play’s growing portfolio.

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Get in the batter’s box for the CHAD Raids, climb the leaderboards, and experience the Bearish crossover live in GIGACHADBAT at: gigachadbat.fun

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