Glossary

GIGA

The fixed-supply token of GIGA DEX. 1B minted at genesis, no inflation.

veGIGA

Locked GIGA (six-month lock), held as an NFT position, that earns a share of protocol revenue when staked. See veGIGA.

Continuous Emissions

Real-time reward streaming without epochs or voting cycles, rebalanced hourly by the protocol based on pool revenue. See Emissions.

Emissions Controller

The protocol component that allocates GIGA emissions across gauged pools and rebalances them every hour based on each pool’s rolling revenue.

LP Emissions Reserve

400M GIGA (40% of supply) reserved at genesis for liquidity provider incentives, vesting over three years.

GIGA Machine

A protocol-owned veGIGA position that uses its revenue to buy GIGA on the open market and lock it. See GIGA Machine.

GIGA Protect

Anti-JIT reward protection for concentrated liquidity: rewards claimed too quickly after a position change are forfeited. See GIGA Protect.

Gauged Pool

A pool that receives GIGA emissions, allocated by the emissions controller.

Non-Gauged Pool

A pool without GIGA emissions. 10% of its swap fees goes to the protocol, and all of that is routed to veGIGA stakers; the other 90% is paid to its LPs.

propAMM Pool

An oracle-priced pool built by partner BrownFi and listed on GIGA. Trades are priced from a live Pyth feed rather than the pool’s reserves, so there is no range to manage and no stale price for arbitrageurs to exploit. See Liquidity.

Liquidity Ladder

The interface view showing exactly where concentrated liquidity sits relative to the market price.