Author: SEND, Blinks ecosystem community token; Translated by: 0xjs@Golden Finance
Solana’s recently released Blinks feature will revolutionize the Internet.
Here are 50+ creative ideas you can do right now with Blinks:
1. Prediction Market
Polls like HedgeHog are already available on Twitter. With crypto, you can put your money where your mouth is – betting on sports, predicting the outcome of events, or voting for predicted proposals. Directly through your X feed.
2. Multi-signature Blink in DM
Do you have a multisig with a friend or co-founder and need them to approve a transaction? Just send them a Blink and have them sign directly in the chat.
A user experience similar to Squads Protocol (Note: Squads is developing Blink).
3. Airdrop Inspector
Like ZheSolworks, NFTs and tokens are airdropped through message signatures - you can additionally charge users a small fee (about $0.1) to facilitate you and easily generate income.
4. Mini Games
Like Chomp and Blessed Burgers, create interactive on-chain games and quizzes that get input directly from users' information streams.
Additionally, the player’s eligibility to play the game is checked by looking at the NFTs in the player’s wallet.
5. NFT Minting and Bidding
Like Degen poet, build a code-free tool that lets anyone create, mint, bid on, and buy NFTs directly from their X feed using Blinks. A no-brainer to build.
6、Crypto Superchats
Like Blink, developed by Solana Labs co-founder Aeya Kovenko, Superchat is a huge source of income for creators.
Build a tool with an interface where users can generate Blinks and have others send them paid messages. Users send messages from their feeds and creators can view/reply from one dashboard.
7. Token Gating Activities
Like Helium, community events often have some entry requirements — NFTs, proof of registration, etc. By having users connect their wallets to event posts on X, Blinks can be used to register and check eligibility.
8. Token-gated content
Like dReader and Radiants, if the closed community is huge, then the closed content is even bigger.
With Blinks you can let creators gate their content (comics, videos, blogs, etc.) using NFTs, payments, etc. Huge market, simple product, come on!
9. Trade in DM
Like Tensor, every messaging interface can now send smart messages via Blinks.
Building a no-code tool that allows users to send, buy, and trade memecoin, NFTs, and more directly from chat. The success of Bonkbot further proves this!
10. Payment request and settlement in DM
Like PayPal, Circle, send, request and settle payments. On-chain Splitwise can just be a group chat with your friends - send or request USDC in the chat, and settle the transaction within the chat interface.
11. Get rid of NFT spam and useless token accounts
Like Sol-incinerator, @EasyEatsBodega, it allows users to easily clean up their wallets by destroying unwanted NFT spam and tokens directly from their wallets. Imagine making money just by destroying Twitter/X messages.
12. Creation tools around Memecoins
Like BONK!!!, let the wider memecoin community have fun on Twitter, and create mini-games and tools to engage with your memecoin community directly on Twitter.
13. Validator Staking
Like Over Clock native staking, if you run a validator, it is now easier to attract liquid staking and native staking, just create a Blink.
14. Time.fun on Twitter
Imagine buying your favorite CT KOL’s time directly from Twitter/X.
15. Platform Action
To make the crypto-native platform more interactive with users, you can publish any Action directly on X feed for them to execute.
For example: collecting fees from Flash.Trade, liking/disliking MetaDAO project proposals on-chain, going long/short using Drift Protocol
16. GitHub sponsorship and tipping
Make a Blink button that lets people tip or sponsor their favorite developers directly in GitHub.
Buy me a Coffee now has API built in – who is developing it?
17. Using Blinks’ README
Imagine developers directly monetizing their open source work.
18. Wallet Interaction Creativity
Actions in NFT, Phantom shows us how to interact with NFT - shortcuts, it's time for everyone to achieve permissionless. Create single transaction signature operations in NFT and enhance its practicality.
19、Blink NFT
Similarly, Blinks also allows easy crypto operations with NFTs directly within the wallet. Send, buy, bid, and trade NFTs directly from the wallet interface.
20. With Blinks, YouTube will become a super power
The Crypto Super Chat feature allows viewers of YouTube creators to send encrypted Super Chats during live broadcasts and reward creators.
Bonus: Let creators/viewers create a wallet with their YouTube email ID via Tip Link
21. Blink + DMs are a natural match for Telegram
Anything that can be done in X DM should be done in Telegram DM. Send, receive, trade, mint NFTs, tokens, and more directly from the TG application interface. The user experience is smoother than ever.
22. Apple meets cryptocurrency through Blinks
App Clips and NFC
23. In the future, Blinks can make any application a Solana application
For example: betting directly from live streaming apps, Bountycaster on Twitter, social commerce - buying directly from TikTok or Insta story.
Blinks' developer experience is 10 times better because instead of using an SDK, you can use the API directly, making it easier to create super apps, embed any website, and more.
