👉🏻 Solana now seems to have taken over the innovation banner of Ethereum, with new features constantly being introduced and a very active developer community.
The newly released Blinks feature is also very interesting. It reminds me of a long time ago when some video websites had off-site playback plug-ins. You only need to introduce a piece of js code to achieve off-site playback without opening the video website. For example, you can directly play videos from Bilibili on Weibo?
💡 Blinks and "Off-site Play" are a little bit similar
It allows users to interact with Solana in various WEB scenarios (such as payment, voting, NFT minting, etc.) without having to open various professional trading websites.
And it only requires simple adaptation of the website or application to support the Blinks function.
✨ Scene simulation
1️⃣ Xiao Ming promoted a meme coin on Twitter and directly sent a tweet containing Blinks. After fans DYOR, they clicked the purchase button of Blinks and the purchase was completed directly in the wallet. What you see is what you get, without having to open the trading website and search for the contract to eliminate the possibility of encountering fake contracts.
2️⃣ You and your online friends are preparing to trade an NFT. Share a Blink link of Mint NFT with each other. The other party can open it through a browser or a wallet that supports Blinks to confirm and complete the transaction. This way, there will be no trust crisis caused by any intermediate entity in the transaction, and it can also avoid tragedies caused by various misoperations.
✨ Advantages of Blinks
1️⃣ Share link:
Blinks converts any Solana Action (such as payment, voting, NFT minting, etc.) into a shareable link. Users can perform blockchain transactions directly on the web page by clicking on these links without having to jump to various complex decentralized applications.
2️⃣ Cross-platform operation:
👉🏻 Solana now seems to have taken over the innovation banner of Ethereum, with new features constantly being introduced and a very active developer community.
3️⃣ Simplified integration:
Developers can easily integrate these links into existing applications and websites without complicated settings, which not only improves the user experience but also reduces the integration difficulty for developers.
4️⃣ Increase user access rate:
By reducing the number of clicks and path steps, BLINKs makes it easier for users to access and use blockchain, thereby improving the accessibility of Web3 applications and breaking the ice painlessly.
✨ Limitations and security risks
1️⃣ Depends on plugin implementation
First of all, the Blinks function still relies on a wallet plug-in that supports this function, such as a protocol built into Phantom and Backpack. This protocol is used to identify whether there is an Actions protocol on the web page. Only identifiable links can be displayed as a Blinks card.
Therefore, if the browser or application selected by the user does not support the wallet plug-in, the Blink card cannot be recognized and the Blink function cannot be used.
2️⃣ Being used for mischief
Although the BLINKs plug-in has a whitelist mechanism to ensure that only trusted Action providers are verified and identified, there is still a loophole that can be exploited by phishers or Rug projects, which invisibly increases the ways for users to step on landmines.
🌞 Conclusion
💡 Blinks and "Off-site Play" are a little bit similar
Solana developers are also working hard in their own way to bridge the huge gap between WEB2 and WEB3 and promote the popularization of blockchain technology.
After all, BLINKs is also a powerful tool that Solana provides for the ecosystem. Let us look forward to what kind of explosive projects will be brewed on this innovative soil.
