Exploring 50+ innovative use cases of Solana Blinks

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Original compilation: Alex Liu, Foresight News

Blinks is now available for building 50+ creative use cases:

1/ Prediction Market

X now has a voting feature. With cryptocurrency, you can now use money to back your own views - betting on sports, predicting event outcomes, or voting for future proposals right in your X feed.

2/ Use Blinks to operate multi-signature wallet in private messages

Co-manage a multi-signature wallet with friends or co-founders, sometimes requiring their approval for transactions? Just send them a Blink link and sign in private chat.

@SquadsProtocol has a very smooth user experience.

3/ Airdrop checker ft. @ZheSolworks

Perhaps we can use message signing to check the eligibility of holding NFTs and tokens for airdrops - charging a small fee (about $0.1) from users can easily generate income.

4/ Mini-games @chompdotgames @blessed_burgers

Create interactive mini on-chain games and quizzes through Blinks, directly fetching user input from their information flow.

In addition, you can also check the player’s permission to play the game by viewing the NFT in the player’s wallet.

5/ NFT minting and bidding ft. @solanapoet

Build a no-code tool that allows anyone to directly create, mint, bid, and purchase NFTs from their X streams using Blinks. Create freely without any hassle.

6/ Encrypted Paid Message ft. @aeyakovenko

Paid messages are a huge source of income for creators.

We can build a user interface tool to generate Blinks in it, allowing others to send paid messages to users.

Users can send messages from their information flow, and creators can view/reply to them on a dashboard.

7/ Hold events with admission thresholds ft. @helium

Participating in community-held activities usually requires meeting certain requirements - holding a certain NFT, submitting proof of registration for the event, etc.

Users can register and check eligibility using Blinks as long as they connect their wallet to the Action post on X.

8/ Token-based Content Market ft. @dReaderApp @RadiantsDAO

If the exclusive community has a large market, the market for exclusive content is even larger. With Blinks, you can allow creators to control their content (comics, videos, blogs, etc.) to be enjoyed by a few people through NFTs, payments, and other means.

Huge market, simple product, enormous potential!

9/ Trade @tensor_hq directly in a private message

Now, every messaging interface can carry Blinks smart messages.

We can build a no-code tool that allows users to directly send, buy, and trade meme tokens, NFTs, etc. through chats.

The success of Bonkbot further validates this!

10/ Requesting payment and settlement via private messages ft. @PayPal @circle

You can send, request, and settle payments using Blinks.

Now, a group chat with frens can serve as an on-chain Splitwise - send or request USDC in the chat and settle transactions in the chat interface.

11/ Get rid of useless NFT and token accounts ft. @solincinerator @EasyEatsBodega

Blinks allows us to directly destroy unwanted NFTs and Spam tokens from the wallet, making it easy for users to clean up their wallets. Imagine making money by simply destroying useless tokens through Twitter/X feeds.

12/ Create tools around Meme @bonk_inu

Blinks allows a wider memecoin community to have fun on Twitter, and create mini-games and tools to interact directly with the meme community on Twitter.

13/ validators ft. @OverclockSol 原生质押

If you run a validator, you can now more easily attract liquidity and native stake by simply creating a Blink.

14/ @timedotfun on Twitter

Imagine, buying your favorite encryption Twitter KOL’s time directly from Twitter/X itself.

15/ Platform Actions

In order to create more interaction between the encryption native platform and users, they can directly post any actions they want to perform on their X feed. For example:

→ Fees charged on @FlashTrade_

→ Support or not support @MetaDAOProject’s proposal on-chain

→ Use @DriftProtocol to go long or short

16/ GitHub sponsorship and tips

Blinks allows people to directly reward or sponsor their favorite developers on GitHub.

@buymeacoffee will be embedded into the application interface — who is building it?

17/ README file with Blink

Imagine developers being able to monetize their open source work directly.

18/ New Ideas About Wallet Interactions

Actions in NFT

@phantom showed us a preview of the interactive NFT - Quick Access. We can create an Action signed by a single txn in the NFT to enhance its usability.

19/ Blink NFT

Similarly, Blinks also allows for simple encryption operations directly using NFTs within the wallet. Send, purchase, bid, and trade NFTs directly from the wallet interface.

20/ YouTube with Blinks will unleash great potential!

Two possible use cases:

• Encryption Highlights: Enable YouTube creators’ audience to send encryption highlights during live broadcasts, bringing economic incentives to creators.
• Reward: Allow creators/viewers to create a wallet using their YouTube email ID for sending and receiving tips via @TipLinkOfficial.

21/ Use Blinks in Telegram private messages

Anything that can be done in X private messages can also be done in Telegram private messages.

You can directly send, receive, trade, mint NFT, tokens, etc. from the TG application interface. The user experience is smoother than ever before.

22/ Apple Meets Cryptocurrency Through Blinks

App Clip and NFC can both integrate Blinks.

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In the future, Blinks can turn any application into a Solana application:

→ Directly bet from the live application

→ @bountycaster on Twitter

→ Social Commerce: Buy products directly from TikTok or Instagram Story

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Blinks improved the developer experience by 10 times, as people can directly use the API instead of using the SDK, achieving:

→ Easier to create super applications

→ Embed in any website

Blinks has more use cases, readers are welcome to explore on their own.