How to perceive the recently discussed Solana Actions and Blinks

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Despite hearing a lot of voices about “innovative progress” and “catalysts for mass adoption,” in my opinion, Blinks does not have much technological innovation. It is too early to talk about mass adoption. However, its emergence has strengthened the market impression of Solana as a new generation of consumer-grade application blockchain, which is a beneficial exploration.
Next, let’s talk about my opinions:
1. Technical Perspective: The Essence of Actions and Blinks
Solana Actions and Blinks are a set of development tools that facilitate the integration of applications for developers:
Actions:
It can be seen as a development adaptation standard that defines how users can trigger on-chain transactions through a unified URL interface in the App environment.
Blinks:
It can be regarded as a front-end integration technology that allows the integration of a set of complex execution parameters containing transaction intents into a URL and can connect to other web3 wallets.
Specifically, Actions will integrate the key information required for users to trigger transactions into a standardized URL. Users can directly interact with the URL in other App environments to trigger a process to construct, sign, and submit an on-chain transaction.
2. Interaction Abstraction: Enhancing User Participation Experience
At first glance, Actions and Blinks are just tools that convert URL links into signable transactions. However, the focus is on:
How many developers have launched applications based on this interaction method
How many users have accepted this interaction method
The goal is to improve the participation threshold and experience of users onboarding the blockchain environment.
3. Challenges and Prospects: Application Scenarios of Blinks and Solana’s Strategic Positioning
The application scenarios of Blinks are not yet clear and lack strong driving factors. Imagine, what would be the motivation for users to use Blinks? Voting, small games, and rewards are obviously not strong driving scenarios.
However, in combination with Solana’s recent 2.0 upgrade, Firedancer client exploration, and the landing of Solana Pay application, it can be seen that:
Solana’s strategic positioning is becoming more aligned with Ton, more inclined to empower the large-scale landing applications of the blockchain, and more inclined to the integration of the web2 market and web3 technology framework.
The goal of Firedancer is to solve the unreliability (downtime) issue of the Solana blockchain, making Solana a new generation of consumer-grade blockchain with higher performance, better parallelism, and lower resource consumption.
In conclusion, whether the vision can be realized remains to be seen, but Solana, apart from being criticized as a “Shitcoin,” always manages to present some progressive answers at a certain point in time. Today’s Blinks, tomorrow’s xxxx, the Solana ecosystem is always progressing, which is the true signal that Blinks and others are transmitting to the market.