Exploring 50 Innovative Use Cases of Solana Blinks

Blinks is now available for over 50 creative use cases:
1. Market Predictions: With voting functionality on X, you can now use money to back your opinions. Bet on sports, predict event outcomes, or vote for future proposals in your X feed.
2. Multi-Signature Wallet Operations in Private Messages: Collaborating on a multi-signature wallet with friends or co-founders? Simply send them a Blink link and sign transactions in private chat.
3. Airdrop Checker ft. ZheSolworks: Use message signatures to check eligibility for holding NFTs and tokens. Charge a small fee (around $0.1) and generate income effortlessly.
4. Mini-Games ft. Chompdotgames and Blessed Burgers: Create interactive mini-games and quizzes using Blinks, directly gathering user input from their X feed. Additionally, check if players have the permission to play the game by viewing NFTs in their wallet.
5. NFT Minting and Bidding ft. Solanapoet: Build a no-code tool that allows anyone to create, mint, bid, and purchase NFTs directly from their X feed. No hassle, just endless creativity.
6. Cryptocurrency-Paid Messages ft. Aeyakovenko: Paid messages can be a significant source of income for creators. Build a user-friendly tool to generate Blinks, enabling others to send paid messages to users. Users can send messages from their feed, and creators can view and reply from a dashboard.
7. Exclusive Events with Admission Requirements ft. Helium: Participating in community events often requires meeting certain criteria, such as holding a specific NFT or providing proof of registration. By connecting wallets to X’s Action posts, registration and eligibility checks can be conducted using Blinks.
8. Token-Gated Content Marketplace ft. dReaderApp and RadiantsDAO: If exclusive communities have a large market, the market for exclusive content becomes even larger. With Blinks, creators can control access to their content (comics, videos, blogs, etc.) through NFTs, payments, and more, limiting it to a select few. A huge market, a simple product, and immense potential!
9. Direct Trading in Private Messages ft. TensorHQ: Every messaging interface can now carry Blinks smart messages. Build a no-code tool that allows users to directly send, purchase, and trade meme tokens, NFTs, and more through chats. Bonkbot’s success further validates this concept!
10. Payment Requests and Settlement in Private Messages ft. PayPal and Circle: Utilize Blinks to send, request, and settle payments. Now, a group chat with friends can function as an on-chain Splitwise platform, where you can send or request USDC in chat and settle transactions within the chat interface.
11. Getting Rid of Useless NFTs and Token Accounts ft. Solincinerator and EasyEatsBodega: Blinks allows us to easily destroy unwanted NFTs and spam tokens directly from our wallets, making it convenient for users to clean up their wallets. Imagine earning money by destroying useless tokens with just a Twitter/X feed!
12. Creating Tools around Memes ft. Bonk Inu: Blinks allows a wider memecoin community to enjoy the fun on Twitter and create games and tools to interact with the meme community directly on the platform.
13. Validator Promotion ft. OverclockSol: Attracting liquidity and native staking for validators is now easier with Blinks. Simply create a Blink and enjoy the benefits.
14. Purchasing Time from Crypto Twitter KOLs on Twitter/X ft. Time.fun: Imagine buying time directly from your favorite crypto Twitter KOLs on Twitter/X.
15. Platform Actions: To enhance interaction between native crypto platforms and users, any desired action can be directly posted on a user’s X feed. For example:
– Collect fees on FlashTrade.
– Support or oppose proposals on MetaDAOProject.
– Long or short on DriftProtocol.
16. GitHub Sponsorship and Tips: Blinks allows people to directly reward or sponsor their favorite developers within GitHub. Buy Me A Coffee will be embedded in the application interface. Who’s building it?
17. README Files with Blinks: Imagine developers being able to monetize their open-source work directly.
18. New Ideas for Wallet Interactions: Actions within NFTs, as demonstrated by Phantom, offer a glimpse into interactive NFTs. We can enhance their practicality by creating actions with single transaction signatures within NFTs.
19. Blink NFTs: Blinks also enables simple cryptographic operations with NFTs directly within wallets. Send, purchase, bid, and trade NFTs directly from the wallet interface.
20. YouTube with Blinks Unleashes Super Potential: Two possible use cases:
– Crypto Highlight Comments: Allow viewers of YouTube creators to send crypto highlight comments during live streams, providing economic incentives to creators.
– Rewards: Enable creators/viewers to use their YouTube email IDs with TipLinkOfficial to create wallets for sending and receiving tips.
21. Using Blinks in Telegram Private Messages: Anything that can be done in X private messages can now be done in Telegram private messages. Send, receive, trade, mint NFTs, tokens, and more directly from the TG app interface with a smoother user experience.
22. Apple Meets Cryptocurrency with Blinks: Blinks can be integrated with App Clip and NFC on Apple devices.
23. More: In the future, Blinks can turn any application into a Solana application, such as:
– Betting directly from live streaming applications.
– @bountycaster on Twitter.
– Social commerce: Buying products directly from TikTok or Instagram stories.
24. Blinks enhances the developer experience tenfold by allowing direct API usage instead of SDKs, making it easier to create super apps and embed them in any website. There are many more use cases for Blinks, so feel free to explore them yourself.