Don’t forget Solana Blink during the halftime break: these are some projects worth paying attention to

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 stream of hot spots, so the imagination and heated discussions about various use cases of Blinks gradually stopped.

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 quietly taking root and growing.

Combined with yesterday's news that Binance is about to launch $BNSOL, the development of the Solana ecosystem must still have a long way to go. As a key area for the future development of the Solana ecosystem, some new things from Blinks recently are worth 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 has Solana founder aeyakovenko passionately forwarded it, but the SEND project itself has a clear future planning layout for the Blinks ecosystem, which makes people take notice of it.

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 also aroused people's imagination of wealth in the project itself and the Blinks ecosystem at that time. However, due to the immature operation, the distribution of $SEND tokens caused the community atmosphere to be unhappy, and the currency price performance was not as amazing as the NFT surge at that time, and the market attention gradually faded.

However, as the first Blinks community, SEND has been maintaining the construction of the ecosystem and established a Blinks-based game 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 Deep Tide Tech Flow article: Can $SEND around 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) operation interface to help users customize the creation of Solana Blinks in a low-threshold form. Even those with 0 code foundation can create complex Blinks programs through BlinksGG.

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

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 randomly builds a shell to make money by taking advantage of the popularity, 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, build a unified identity for users across applications, and give 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's official website and Blinks. The system itself is supported by saydialect, a technical protocol stack on Solana. In theory, the registration process only takes about 2 seconds, but some users have reported that transaction signatures have random delays.

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

4.Wink: Blinks Market & Simple Template Generator

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

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

Wink is a Blinks market platform created by the utilizexyz team, allowing users to create, share and profit from Blinks programs. Blinks developers can create and share blink templates through Wink, 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 on 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 drying up liquidity 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 that often outnumber real users.

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

For projects that want to develop for a long time, it is undoubtedly the right strategy to do projects with the basic logic of being close to users.