Blinks: A crypto game-changer for content creators?

Let’s take a break from AI.

And (for me) the news stories in Kenya, where I am from.

My life in crypto

I’ve spent a few years learning and investing in crypto. I started this journey in 2021. I’ve taken some beatings and am slowly navigating the space. I started when NFTs were the big narrative. That’s my You Tube channel below. I was up to all sorts of things. And loving it.

In my spare time …

I am focused on crypto narratives around AI, DePin and Real World Assets (digital tokens that represent real world assets) in this crypto bull run. While there are big Bitcoin draw-downs, ETF and market manipulation, and crazy stuff happening with meme coins, I’m engaged in the space. #HODL.

Disclosure: My main bags in crypto are BTC and Solana (SOL). SOL is faster, cheaper, better.

Midjourney AI

Blinks

This week there was an big deal announcement from the Solana Blockchain called “Blinks” (Blockchain Links). This is a massive deal because it connects web3 to the internet (web2). It breaks down the barriers between web 2 and web 3. It’s actually revolutionary, user friendly and can catalyze mainstream adoption.

This is what you do on Web 2:

• Click on a link on social
• Get taken to another website
• Put in your email
• Credit card info
• 3.5% merchant fee
• Billing address info
• etc.

Blinks, Web3

• Clink link
• Interact with post only
• Pay directly with SOL
• Confirm transaction on Solana wallet

This transforms crypto interactions into simple experiences, drives crypto adoption and more engagement with crypto - Invest Answers

If you are running a non-profit, looking for donations, swapping an item online, running a small business, an e-commerce site and (close to my heart) are a content creator, pay attention here. You can sell art, creative content, donate funds to support the creation of content directly from artists.

It means anyone, anywhere, can create and embed a link and you can send or receive Solana micropayments through a wallet without leaving to a site. The user interacts and transacts with the post and your timeline.

Blinks can do this in a decentralized (web3) way through user URLs. This new development with Blinks, means that traditional marketplaces can get disrupted. Think Amazon or e-Bay.

It’s new, and limited at the moment. So there are many kinks with Blinks. But lots of upside.

A summary from

InvestAnswers

• There is no middleman.
• The link you spin up, will not have you click and take you to another website. The product or sale never leaves your timeline.
• Low fees. Traditional marketplaces take bigger fees.
• Low barrier of entry.
• High transaction speed.
• Challenges the need for credit cards

This is a win for vendors and creators - Invest Answers

This moves us more toward crypto and real world assets (RWA) and tokenization of everything.

How do I use this

• For now only on Twitter, X. Discord and Reddit to come.
• You need a Phantom Wallet