For those who are unfamiliar with @paint_swap and its origins, here's a comprehensive breakdown of the past four years!
The journey started on the Fantom Opera network in early 2021, with a full fleet migration to Sonic last year. Still innovating and building. Thread below!
Buckle up for a long post to learn something new on $BRUSH (@paint_swap ).
So after the awesome Spaces with @samwitchPS from @paint_swap yesterday, it hit me just how much of a super-dev he is and how the market sees PaintSwap as "just an NFT marketplace", but that’s maybe only 30% of their foundational tech.
They’re building foundational infra for everything they do from scratch, often outperforming market standards with only 10 team members and that’s truly insane.
I thought I'll break down some of what these giga-brains are actually cooking at Paintswap.
First in my list, their upcoming PaintswapVRF on mainnet.
🔷Whats VRF (Verifiable Random Function)
It addresses a critical problem: Blockchains are deterministic by nature so there isn't room for randomness to fly around. So generating cryptographically secure randomness that can be publicly verified on-chain is what VRF is built for.
The result is trustless, verifiable and secure randomness, perfect for NFT drops, gaming, lotteries, validator selection, and much more.
Why standard approaches fail:
🔹Block hashes can be manipulated by miners.
🔹External oracles introduce centralization risks.
🔹Simple deterministic on-chain functions are predictable and gameable.
🔷How the magic of VRF works:
It uses public-key cryptography to generate random output plus a proof. Anyone can verify the randomness using the public key, but no one can predict it without the private key.
🔷PaintSwapVRF vs Market standard Chainlink VRF:
While Chainlink's VRF isn’t available on Sonic just yet, PaintSwap not only built their own from scratch and making it accessible to all but made its much better than market standards.
🔹Gas only pricing: No $LINK tokens or subscription headaches like Chainlink.
🔹Native integration: Purpose built for @SonicLabs , not just adapted.
🔹Simplified dev UX: Direct integration, no token management or sub management.
🔹Horizontal scaling: Designed for high throughput from day one.
As a baby dev myself, I can confirm: This is a way smoother experience than ChainlinkVRF.
Just Gas efficient, super fast, No token bridging, no subscription juggling, secure, verifiable randomness with clean quick integration for your codebase.
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Coinbase will add support for Sonic (S) on the Sonic network. Do not send this asset over other networks or your funds may be lost. Transfers for this asset are available on @Coinbase & @CoinbaseExch in the regions where trading is supported.
This week, we used 10K S earned via Sonic’s FeeM program to purchase $BRUSH and add it to the Paintswap treasury.
FeeM works - and its working for $BRUSH.
Thanks to Sonic for the rails.
We’ll keep building on them.
https://t.co/qW0VfHdind
Sonic Summit in Vienna was a success!
Huge thanks to everyone who visited our booth, participated in Click Royale, and hunted down our limited edition plush toys.
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The Sonic Airdrop contracts are currently under audit and will be ready and secure by the end of the first @SonicLabs season. The points you've been collecting for the last few months on Sonic and previously on Fantom will become tradeable on the first fungible fNFT orderbook!
The @SonicLabs airdrop in June will be distributed to users in an ERC1155 NFT, with 25% of the S claimed immediately, and the rest vesting over 9 months. The NFTs can be transferred or traded on our Order Book marketplace, all on chain, and powered by the fastest L1 network!
Meet @Paint_Swap, official sponsor of Sonic Summit.
PaintSwap is a leading NFT marketplace, combining curated collections, creator tools, and financial NFTs.
🥈 Silver Sponsor
🗓️ May 6–8, Vienna
🎟️ https://t.co/F2L868eBG1
That’s a wrap on Sonic DownUnder!
3 cities, 5 events, and one mission:
Bring together the Aussie creators, builders, and participants of the @SonicLabs ecosystem.
It was a wild week - let's dive in 🧵
Who is a successful NFT creator you’d like me to interview next on @paint_swap’s the Joy of Minting?
It can come from in OR outside the Sonic ecosystem.
It can be ANY type of NFT - whether it’s a pfp, utility based, financial, gaming or other.