Author: TechFlow

With the launch of Solana Blinks, various applications based on Blinks technology have emerged one after another. However, Blinks, which was a bit "born at the wrong time", caught up with a long period of oscillation. The market's attention and patience were already scattered, and it was constantly attracted by the endless variety of hot spots, so the imagination and heated discussions about various use cases of Blinks gradually subsided.

Recently, the Solana community launched a special hackathon "Blinksathon" for the Blinks section, and many well-known projects and institutions sponsored this event.

Although the market's attention is not here for the time being, after all, Blinks technology has brought many practical use cases to users in the social sector, and many projects are still quietly taking root and growing.

Combined with yesterday’s news that Binance is about to launch $BNSOL, the development road of the Solana ecosystem is probably still very long. As a key area for the future development of the Solana ecosystem, some new things from Blinks recently are worthy of your attention.

1. SEND: The first Blinks community project

Official account: https://x.com/thesendcoin

Official website: https://thesendcoin.com

As the first real hot project in the Blinks ecosystem, SEND has left a deep impression on players who follow Blinks. Not only did Solana founder aeyakovenko passionately forward it, but the SEND project itself also impressed people with its clear future planning and layout for the Blinks ecosystem.

The project team chose to open the minting of 100,000 Send it NFTs through the Blinks function. The price once rose by more than 300 times, which aroused people’s imagination of wealth in the project itself and the Blinks ecosystem at the time. However, due to immature operations and the distribution problem of $SEND tokens, the community atmosphere was not very pleasant, and the currency price performance was not as amazing as the NFT surge at the time, and market attention gradually faded.

However, as the first Blinks community, SEND has been maintaining its ecological construction and has established a Blinks-based gaming platform Higher. When the Blinks ecosystem becomes popular again, SEND, as the leader of the ecosystem, is definitely a member that cannot be ignored.

For a detailed introduction to the SEND project, please see the Tech Flow article: Can $SEND based on Solana Blinks replicate the glory of $DEGEN?

2. BlinksGG: 0-code Blinks generation platform

Official account: https://x.com/Blinks_gg

Official website: https://www.Blinks.gg/Blinks_gg

BlinksGG provides users with a GUI (graphical user interface) operating interface to help users customize the creation of Solana Blinks in a low-threshold form. Even users with zero code knowledge can create complex Blinks programs through BlinksGG.

BlinksGG completed the project cold start by minting NFTs through Blinks + launching the token $BGG1 through Pump.fun.

Judging from the completeness of the project construction and BlinksGG's planning for the sustainability of the project (that is, the use cases of tokens and NFTs), BlinksGG does not seem like a project that just casually puts up a shell to ride on the popularity to make money, so it is worth keeping an eye on.

3. dotBlinks: On-chain identity project

Official account: https://x.com/mintdotBlinks

Official website: https://www.dotBlinks.me/search

.Blinks is an on-chain identity project based on the Solana Blinks technology architecture.

According to the project itself, .Blinks allows users to create easily recognizable usernames, building a unified identity for users across applications while giving users full ownership of their social graphs.

As another domain name project in the Solana ecosystem, .Blinks is characterized by the ability to interact directly through the Blinks program.

Currently, users can register .Blinks identity domain names through the project website and Blinks. The system itself is powered by saydialect, a technical protocol stack on Solana. In theory, the registration process only takes about 2 seconds, but some users have reported random delays in transaction signatures.

After registering a domain name, you can follow other users who have registered .Blinks through Blinks, and build a social network directly from the domain name level. The official introduction shows that this social graph is scalable and can be directly used in various applications in the Solana ecosystem in the future.

4. Wink: Blinks Marketplace & Easy Template Generator

Official account: https://x.com/winkitBlinks

Official website: https://Blinks.winkit.app/get-started

Wink is a Blinks marketplace built by the utilizexyz team that allows users to create, share, and monetize Blinks apps. Blinks developers can use Wink to create and share blink templates, and users can use these templates to generate customized Blinks with one click.

The Wink project claims to be a market service application about Blinks. Perhaps in the future it will open trading services for Blinks templates, just like trading NFTs in various NFT DEXs.

summary

At present, Blinks can only support relatively simple on-chain operations, so it is inevitable that some doubts arise: Are the various fancy applications in the Blinks ecosystem really necessary? Does the market really have these needs?

In fact, it is not just Solana Blinks. Many crypto narratives are basically facing the current situation of liquidity drying up in many aspects. Each segment shows obvious "buyer's market" characteristics: lack of liquidity, low user participation, and various icing on the cake demands and applications are often more than real users.

But if we look closely at the development direction of Blinks, the product design logic and usage of various applications in its ecosystem, it seems that the Blinks ecosystem does not blindly follow market trends or pile up functions. On the contrary, its core goal is to make Blinks easier to use and bring Web3 closer to users.

For projects that want to develop over the long term, it is undoubtedly the right strategy to follow the basic logic of being close to users.