what's painstr?
$PAINSTR is a community-driven meme token launched on October 7, 2025, via the NFTStrategy platform by TokenWorks, tied to the "Max Pain" NFT collection inspired by artist XCOPY's works.
PAINSTR trade fees fund Max Pain NFT buyback and burn.
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Fees from every PAINSTR trade are used to buyback and burn Max Pain NFTs from PainStrategy.
Sweepstakes protocol launches as an onchain sweepstakes system built on top of NFTStrategy, with Goblintown among the first participating Strategies. The protocol sells tickets to buy NFTs from Strategy Holdings, burns Strategy tokens, and distributes NFTs to random ticket buyers.
$FRENSTR TokenStrategy launches for Circle of Frens² collection as a test case for art-focused projects using the NFTStrategy permissionless framework.
$PAINSTR gains 44% ahead of Art Basel Miami event.
Six NFT Strategy tokens including $PAINSTR are now live on OpenSea, with three new tokens ($CHMPSTR, $GOBSTR, $NAKASTR) joining the previously launched $VIBESTR and $CHKSTR.
TokenWorks introduces NFTStrategy as a permissionless framework that enables any NFT collection to launch their own perpetual machine tokens, expanding beyond the original PunkStrategy model.
1% of every trade goes to buying and burning $PNKSTR tokens, with 4% of total supply already burned from trading volume and Punk sales.
Token gains 6.6% while $VIBESTR falls -12.4%, reversing the previous performance trend where $VIBESTR was significantly outperforming. Parent token $PNKSTR trades at $77M market cap (+23%) with 10.8K holders.
Related token $VIBESTR launches and is performing significantly hotter than both $PAINSTR and $CHECKSTR, with traders unable to secure early $2M market cap entries that were achievable on the previous two launches.
Token rallies 50% from $98M low to $155M market cap on $16.5M volume, with vault now holding 28 Punks (+2). Related token $PAINSTR launches with 208 purchases reaching $3.5M market cap, while team announces two more launches coming and Jack Butcher collaboration launching tomorrow.
The token has launched, with at least one trader indicating they missed the initial launch event.