Understanding Solana Blinks: How to improve the Web3 experience?
Recently, an emerging and practical technology has emerged in the field of Web3 and blockchain technology — Solana Blockchain Links, referred to as Blinks, which means blockchain links. What’s special about this technology is how it transforms cumbersome blockchain operations into a concise and clear link sharing experience, thereby lowering the threshold for users to operate the blockchain. In this article, I will give a detailed introduction and point out the various problems that Blinks can solve in Web3.
What are Blinks?
Blinks (Blockchain Links) is an innovative gadget launched by the Solana blockchain, which can be shared on different social platforms through links, such as Twitter and Telegram. Through the gadgets generated by Blinks, users can perform different on-chain operations in a simple and clear interface, making the entire complicated process smoother and easier. For users, compared to the traditional method where users need to enter different websites before operating, using Blinks can immediately complete the entire blockchain transaction process on the social platform, greatly reducing the threshold for blockchain operations. When I saw the introduction and schematic diagram of Blinks on the Solana website, I was very shocked. I think Blinks can indeed effectively solve the problems currently faced in Web3.
How Blinks works
Blinks handles each application’s on-chain transactions through Solana Actions’ standard API, and uses URLs to perform sending and operations, recording the entire transaction process so that users can approve and approve transactions directly from the Solana wallet during the process. Signature action.
Application scenarios and advantages of Blinks
Using Blinks, Web3 projects or NFT creators can provide a more accessible platform to ordinary users, thereby expanding their user base. For example, users can easily purchase NFTs, participate in prediction markets, inquire about airdrops, and participate in interactive games through Blinks. These activities originally required high technical thresholds and complicated operation steps, but now they can be completed with almost no learning through Blinks, which greatly improves the user experience and effectively improves user traffic.
It can be seen from Solana’s official documentation that Blinks technology can currently support most Web2 social software, and can be integrated into the platform using corresponding design styles. Processing with corresponding design styles can improve users’ experience and confidence, and make them more confident that the relevant components are not phishing software.
Blinks related projects?
After Solana launched Blinks technology, there was a lively discussion on Twitter. The most famous one is the Twitter account named SEND (@thesendcoin). Up to 50 examples and usage scenarios of Blinks are displayed on the platform.
Later, the project used the function of Blinks to launch 100,000 Send It series NFTs, with the floor price reaching as high as 0.42 SOL. The project immediately launched token economics. Based on the chain operations of the above projects, the SEND project is most likely to be operated by Solana insiders, and then Blinks has just launched this hot topic to hype.
What problem does Blinks solve?
Although Blinks technology is relatively new at the moment, many projects are taking this opportunity to gain popularity. But in the long run, I think Blinks technology can indeed effectively solve the problems currently faced by Web3. I think one of the problems that Web3 projects are currently facing is that user conversion rates are very low.
At present, when we conduct different transactions, users need to constantly make conversions on different websites. For example, when we buy Solana NFT, we need to open Magic Eden. When we want to convert tokens, we need to go to Raydium to exchange tokens. When we want to borrow money, To go to Solend, or even to use Sol as liquidity staking, you have to go to Jito. Each of these conversions also affects the user experience, especially for users with less knowledge of Web3.
The use of Blinks can effectively solve the problem of user conversion rate and greatly reduce the entry threshold for users. Using the API on Solana Actions to create components gives users a more seamless experience.
In addition to user experience, Blinks also brings simpler and more direct solutions to project development and operation teams. The operations team can use Blinks components to effectively promote the project in a better way and use different experiences to engage users. From the perspective of the development team, Blinks provides a more standardized module for the team to refer to, which can effectively reduce development difficulty and time.
Based on the above content, although Solana Blinks is still a very new technology at present, I believe there will be many projects developing and gaining popularity from it. But in the long run, I think the technological development of Blinks can bring a more user-friendly experience. I hope that in the future we can also see similar technological development in addition to the Solana chain.
