Case Study

Rarible

The NFT Company. OG Marketplace. NFT infrastructure for builders. Vertical marketplaces for brands.

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Contracts shipped

Industry
NFTs & Digital Assets
Category
Web3
Duration
Multi-year partnership
Year
2024

Overview

About Rarible

Rarible is a pioneering company in the blockchain and NFT space, offering a comprehensive ecosystem for creating, trading, and managing digital assets. Established over five years ago, Rarible has evolved into a multi-faceted platform designed to cater to both Web3 developers and mainstream businesses, democratizing access to NFT technology and empowering creators, collectors, and brands to leverage the benefits of blockchain.

The Challenge

Rarible’s mission has always been horizontal: meet builders and collectors wherever they live on-chain. Executing on that mission required adapting a substantial portion of the marketplace infrastructure and collection smart contracts from Solidity on EVM to other architectures (Rust for Solana, Move for Aptos, and beyond) without breaking the developer experience that made Rarible the OG marketplace in the first place.

Our Approach

We took ownership of the core smart-contract migrations and the supporting tooling around them. That meant rewriting marketplace and collection contracts for new VMs, designing a burn-and-mint bridge for seamless cross-chain NFT migration, and shipping SDKs and CLI tools in Rust and TypeScript so internal and external teams could integrate quickly.

Results

Rarible expanded into multiple new chains with feature parity, unlocked cross-chain NFT migration for users, and gained on-chain mechanics (like fully on-chain random card packs) that opened entirely new collection formats.

Objectives

What we set out to do

  1. 01

    Horizontal growth: expand the ecosystem by rapidly integrating support for new blockchain architectures and deploying across diverse environments.

  2. 02

    Adapt a substantial portion of the marketplace infrastructure and collection smart contracts from Solidity on EVM to Rust on Solana, Move on Aptos, and others.

  3. 03

    Unlock seamless NFT interoperability between ecosystems.

What we delivered

Solutions shipped

  • Migrated and adapted critical smart contracts (marketplace and collections) to new architectures, including Rust + Anchor on Solana Virtual Machine (Eclipse).

  • Expanded Rarible's reach to multiple new EVM-compatible chains, enhancing multi-chain presence and user accessibility.

  • Implemented a burn-and-mint bridge between Ethereum and Solana to enable seamless NFT migration.

  • Developed smart contracts for fully on-chain random card packs, introducing mechanics for distributing NFTs of varying rarities.

  • Improved core Solidity contracts with advanced upgradeability patterns and deterministic deployment strategies.

  • Built CLI tools and SDKs in Rust and TypeScript to streamline marketplace and collection management.

"SpaceDev delivered exceptional smart contract work that enabled us to expand to multiple chains. Their deep Web3 expertise and rapid iteration made them an indispensable partner."

The Outcome

SpaceDev played a key role in Rarible's multi-chain expansion by migrating and optimizing smart contracts across new blockchain architectures. Our contributions enabled seamless NFT interoperability, enhanced scalability, and unlocked new revenue streams, powering high-value collections, cross-chain NFT migrations, and innovative on-chain mechanics.

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