This week, the Solana Foundation and Dialect unveiled Solana actions and blinks (a portmanteau of blockchain and links), which lets users transact with crypto directly within X. 

Blinks allow crypto actions to look like buttons or widgets, so users can do things like buy crypto or NFTs directly within their X feeds. 

There are many other ways this could be used, of course. Hedgehog Markets embedded a prediction market on X, and another developer built an onchain orb that doles out advice and happily accepts donations. The orb told me to “accept the process of disintegration and prepare for renewal. Let go of what no longer serves you.”

For now, blinks are only on X, but its developers are hoping to expand the feature to other places on the internet, such as Reddit and Discord.

The release generally is reminiscent of Farcaster Frames, which lets users interact with apps directly inside of the crypto-native social media app Farcaster. Frames created a lot of buzz and led to a spike in Farcaster usage.

Solana non-vote transactions spiked to their highest point in June the day after blinks were released, according to Blockworks Research.

Source: Jack Kubinec – blockworks.co