I have been flipping some NFT projects this year, and the worst drama always explodes around mints, people screaming “rigged” the second a whale snags multiple rares or their wallet gets nothing but commons. Even if it’s truly random, the community loses trust fast without proof.
Apro’s VRF integration fixed that completely for a mint I helped organize recently. We plugged it in for rarity assignment and allowlist draws. Every wallet’s outcome ties directly to an onchain randomness request that anyone can verify afterward.
My own mint went smooth, I pulled a mid tier trait combo, but the real test came when a known whale landed three top-tier pieces from ten mints. Discord started heating up immediately with the usual accusations. I just dropped the transaction hashes into the Apro verifier tool, showed the raw randomness inputs, commitments, and reveals. Everyone could replay it themselves and see the outcome was unavoidable. Thread died in minutes.
The cost was negligible too. We batched requests across hundreds of minters, so gas per wallet stayed under a dollar even on mainnet congestion. Nodes handled the load without delays, and fulfillment callbacks triggered automatically once the reveal phase finished.
I have seen projects use cheaper, less secure RNG before, block hashes, ranDAO, whatever, and get wrecked by miner manipulation or predictable patterns. Apro’s commitment scheme plus staking makes that impossible without burning serious collateral. No credible exploit paths.
The smart contract side was stupidly easy. Standard request fulfill pattern, plenty of example code, and it works the same across all the chains we deployed on. Dev time was basically one afternoon.
Post mint engagement stayed high because people knew the distribution was legit. Secondary sales picked up fast, no boycott threats, no doxxing the team over “insider mints.” Just clean trading on actual scarcity.
For anyone launching NFTs, gaming drops, or even token fair launches, skipping verifiable randomness is asking for reputational suicide these days. Communities demand proof, and screenshots or “trust me bro” don’t cut it anymore.
I won’t back or build on any mint that doesn’t use something like Apro’s VRF now. One salty thread can tank floor price overnight. Here the randomness was expensive in peace of mind only, and that’s the cheapest insurance you can buy in this space. Every project I’m involved with going forward is locking this in from day one.
