​In the three weeks of the Blinks launch, developers around the world have created thousands of Blinks, enabling trading, tipping, betting, staking, and NFT minting all from X. No more complex dApp interfaces, no more unintuitive UI, just some lines of code and a browser and you're good to go — get users and let them interact with your product right where they are!

​Interesting in trying your hand at making the next viral crypto thing? Join us for a one day Blinks mini-hackathon at the Solana Labs office in San Francisco. We'll have an introductory session, a couple of lightening talks, 2 hours of build time with coffee and beer, followed by lunch!

​Sponsors

​Thanks to our sponsors SEND and Blinkdotfun

• ​BlnkDotFun: No-code blink creator, blink marketplace, and much more. https://blnk.fun.

• ​Dialect: A protocol & developer stack for delivering your product experiences using Blinks. https://dialect.to.

​Solana Actions

​Solana Actions are specification-compliant APIs that return transactions on the Solana blockchain to be previewed, signed, and sent across various contexts, including QR codes, buttons + widgets in mobile and desktop applications, and websites across the internet. Actions make it simple for developers to integrate the things you can do throughout the Solana ecosystem right into your environment, allowing you to perform blockchain transactions without needing to navigate away to a different app or webpage.

​Blinks

​Blockchain links – or blinks – turn any Solana Action into a shareable, metadata-rich link. Blinks allow Action-aware clients (browser extension wallets, bots) to display additional capabilities for the user. On a website, a blink might immediately trigger a transaction preview in a wallet without going to a decentralized app; in Discord, a bot might expand the blink into an interactive set of buttons. This pushes the ability to interact on-chain to any web surface capable of displaying a URL.