Solana
Solana Rolls Out New Features for Cryptocurrency Trading on Classic Social Media Apps
- Solana rolled out the Blinks and Action feature, allowing users to purchase cryptocurrencies, tip vendors, and transact directly on the blockchain from regular websites and social media apps.
- The Solana Foundations say the “Actions” will allow developers to integrate transactions from the Solana ecosystem into mainstream websites and applications.
The Solana Foundation, in collaboration with Dialect, an on-chain smart messaging protocol, has created “Actions and Blinks” (also known as “Actions”), a set of features that allow users to interact with the Solana blockchain directly from of a website, popular social media apps or QR code.
The feature aims to bring Solana closer to everyday users by allowing developers to integrate virtually any transaction into websites and apps that everyday people already use.
“Actions and Blinks on Solana enable any website and application on the internet to be a distribution point for on-chain interactions, contributing to the goal of mainstream adoption,” said Jon Wong, Head of Ecosystem Engineering at the Solana Foundation.
“From your X feed, you can buy an NFT, tip a creator, receive money, vote, stake, trade and much more,” says Dialect founder Chris Osborn.
Popular Solana wallets like Phantom and Backpack will immediately support the new features, while others can integrate them by following the instructions in the chain’s developer documentation.
Applications such as Telegram trading bots, which simplify the on-chain trading process, have seen success and serve as a benchmark for the viability of Web2-connected features.
While Solana is not the first to deploy extensive blockchain capabilities to social media, it is the first to directly connect to Web2 social media.