Season 2 Ends Under a Cloud, Season 3 Answers Back

Season 2 of Rugpull Bakery, the competitive cookie-baking guild game running on Abstract Chain, is coming to a close under loud criticism from top players. Zoloto231, captain of the Abstract CIS bakery, posted a lengthy statement accusing a section of the community of breaking the rules with bots and multi-accounting throughout the season, and asking the organizers at OnchainChemists, together with the Abstract team, to punish those responsible.

Hours later, the OnchainChemists team addressed the mood head-on. In its own post, the studio confirmed that Season 3 is almost live and laid out five major design changes aimed squarely at the problems that defined Season 2.

A Captain's Complaint About Automation and Multi-Accounting

The Abstract CIS bakery started the season strong, according to Zoloto231. That edge disappeared once the team started fighting back against players allegedly breaking the rules. The captain says the experience "completely spoiled" the team's impression of the season and stresses that identifying the offenders is not difficult for anyone willing to look.

The post name-checks community member Azino_x, who had already compiled a list pointing out most of the suspected cheaters. Zoloto231 credited that research and called for the organizers to act on it.

A specific example is given involving a rival bakery captain, 0xCygaar. While the post expresses respect for that captain, it claims the same individual repeatedly used accounts spread across three different guilds to throw rugs at Abstract CIS, then placed those accounts on automation. The complaint frames this as a structural problem: a single guild cannot realistically defend itself against coordinated multi-guild automated attacks.

To reinforce the case, the post quotes directly from Rugpul Bakery's own terms of use. The cited user-conduct clause bars misuse of the site, bug exploitation, rate-limit abuse, and "bots or automation in a way not permitted by the game," and reserves the right to suspend, restrict, or terminate accounts that create security, legal, operational, or integrity risks for the game. The captain closed by asking for players who ignore the rules, run bots, or operate multi-accounts to be banned.

OnchainChemists Responds With Five Season 3 Changes

The developer reply does not issue a verdict on Season 2 cheaters, but it does rework the game around the attack patterns that drove the complaints. The OnchainChemists team laid out five main changes.

The first change removes the guild structure that Season 2 was built on. Season 3 introduces solo bakeries, meaning the competition is focused on the individual baker. Group bakeries are scheduled to return in a later season, but they are stepping off the stage for now. This alone deflates a large part of the Season 2 complaint, because the rug-spam pattern Zoloto231 described depended on rival guilds stacking attacks against a single target bakery.

The second change rebuilds prize distribution. The Season 3 pool is split between the top 100 users and a broader general activity user base. A large prize is reserved for top finishers, while casual players can participate throughout the season and still earn a share. This is a departure from a pure winner-take-most leaderboard and is designed to keep less hardcore players engaged without them feeling priced out by farming syndicates.

The third change is the headline anti-cheat mechanic. OnchainChemists is introducing a Rug Reduction System, or RRS. The team explicitly flags it as a response to the main Season 2 complaint: rugs coming from alt accounts and small bakeries. Under the RRS, rug effects from small attacking bakeries are reduced, and rug costs spike if a player tries to land back-to-back rugs on the same target. In practice this increases both the economic and the mechanical cost of Sybil-style harassment, which was the core tactic Zoloto231 described.

The fourth change tightens item limits. In Season 3, only one boost and one rug can be applied to a bakery at a time. Stacking is gone. Bakers have to decide whether to spend more on a powerful boost or play it safer with a cheaper one, and attackers lose the ability to pile multiple rugs on the same bakery simultaneously.

The fifth change adjusts cooldowns and costs for both rugs and boosts, aimed at better pacing and less downtime. The team did not publish exact numbers for those adjustments in the post.

What Is Rugpull Bakery?

For readers new to the title, Rugpul Bakery is a web3 competitive idle game built natively on Abstract Chain, the Ethereum Layer 2 developed by Igloo Inc., the studio behind Pudgy Penguins. Abstract runs on chain ID 2741, uses zero-knowledge rollup technology, and went live on mainnet in late January 2025. It is marketed as a consumer-focused network for games, social apps, and similar onchain experiences.

Rugpul Bakery leans into crypto culture with a knowing sense of humor. Players register for the active season by paying an ETH buy-in and then compete to bake cookies, the in-game currency that drives the leaderboard and the prize pool. Cookies can be spent on boosts to multiply a player's own output, or on rugs, the game's term for attack items that apply debuffs to rivals.

Baking requires an active season, a registered player, and, in Season 2, bakery membership. The Season 3 pivot to solo bakeries adjusts that last requirement. In the previous season, leaving a bakery mid-season burned 100 percent of the player's current-season cookie balance and reset their baked total, a rule that made guild loyalty a core part of strategy. Season 2 payouts are set to use final cookie balance rather than the effective baked-cookie weighting used elsewhere in the game, which is part of why farming at the tail end of the season became such a sensitive topic.

Referrals, Attacks, and Why Bots Matter

The game also runs a referral system. Invite links use the address of a registered referrer, and referred players earn a higher payout weight than non-referred players at season end. Referrers receive a percentage of each new buy-in, creating a direct financial incentive to bring new wallets into the game. That works as intended when invitees are real people. It turns predatory when one operator spins up dozens of wallets, self-refers them, and farms the buy-in bonuses, the referral weight bonus, and the attack coordination that comes with controlling multiple accounts across multiple bakeries.

Attacks have to target a bakery different from the attacker's current one and must target a bakery in the active season. In Season 2, some rug types were non-stackable on the same target, which created a direct incentive to multi-account: if one wallet could not stack a rug, several coordinated wallets could still flood a target with different rugs in sequence. Combine that with optional session keys, which allow repeated bake, boost, and attack transactions without repeated wallet confirmations, and a well-funded operator could run an attack bot farm against a rival guild. The Zoloto231 complaint describes exactly this loop.

Season 3's solo format, the one-rug-per-bakery cap, the RRS penalty on small-bakery attackers, and the spike in back-to-back rug costs are all designed to break that loop.

A Test for Abstract's Consumer Crypto Pitch

Abstract Chain has invested heavily in the idea of consumer-friendly onchain experiences. The network uses the Abstract Global Wallet, a passkey-based smart wallet system designed so new players can sign in and transact without browser extensions or seed phrases. Igloo Inc. raised 11 million dollars from investors including Founders Fund to build the chain, and the ecosystem hosts a catalog of community apps.

Rugpul Bakery is one of the more visible experiments in that catalog, precisely because it merges the Pudgy-adjacent, meme-literate tone of Abstract with real ETH-denominated stakes. A controversy over automation and multi-accounting at the end of its second season is therefore a reputational question not only for the OnchainChemists team but for the chain itself.

Earlier in 2025, Abstract dealt with a separate user-trust incident when some players of the card-trading game Cardex reported wallet drains, with amounts claimed to range from a few hundred dollars to over 100,000 dollars in ether for individual users. That situation was distinct from the current Rugpul Bakery dispute, but it illustrates why the community holds Abstract's consumer apps to a high standard.

What Season 3 Signals

The developer post does not confirm any Season 2 bans, and the Zoloto231 complaint stops short of alleging that OnchainChemists encouraged the behavior. What the Season 3 rollout does is reshape the playing field so that the tactics described in the complaint become either unprofitable, mechanically blocked, or both.

A solo bakery format removes the multi-guild rug coordination angle entirely. A top 100 plus broad activity payout split reduces the leaderboard pressure that made end-of-season bot farming lucrative. The Rug Reduction System directly taxes the alt-account and small-bakery attack pattern that players called out by name. One boost and one rug per bakery ends item stacking. Adjusted cooldowns and costs are meant to keep the pacing competitive without rewarding automation.

The Season 2 leaderboard and payout weighting are still settling, and the closing line from the Abstract CIS post is the part of this story that the wider community is watching closely: players who ignore the rules, use automation, and run multi-accounts should be banned.