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We do the research, you get the alpha! Get exclusive reports and access to key insights on airdrops, NFTs, and more! Subscribe now to Alpha Reports and up your game! Go to Alpha Reports The non-profit Solana Foundation, in a bid to make blockchain transactions more seamless and intuitive and put the “crypto” back into “Crypto Twitter,” announced the launch of Solana Actions (transactions) and Solana Blinks (blockchain links) on Tuesday. The new features will allow users to connect and send transactions without having to leave the website they are currently on. Using Actions and Blinks, the Solana Foundation claims any website that can display a URL can be used with the new features. “Part of our role here at the Solana Foundation on the engineering side is to explore some of these product primitives and think one to three years down the line,” Solana Foundation head of engineering Jon Wong told Decrypt in an interview. “Blockchain has a key problem: It’s stuck in its corner of the internet. Everything that you’ve ever done online has to be crypto-aware, but that’s kind of an annoying process,” he said. For example, he added, some discussion forums require participants to be using a particular crypto wallet. The first time a wallet attempts to retrieve a transaction from an unknown API, Wong said, users will see a familiar “connect to site” prompt, noting if the site domain has been connected to the wallet in the past, then it’s more likely to be trustworthy. As Wong explained, Actions and Blinks are similar to connecting a wallet to a decentralized app (dapp). “Trust the sites you know and use, just as you trust the dApps you know and use,” he said. In addition to transactions on websites and social media, the Solana Foundation said, developers…

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