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Solana Blinks: How to Turn Any Link into a Crypto Transaction? ⚡

The series of articles on programming on the Solana blockchain continues! My voting application has been finished for a while now, and I’m slowly moving forward!

Imagine reading a post on X (Twitter) and wanting to donate 0.1 SOL to your favorite creator. Instead of copying their address, opening your wallet, setting up the transaction, and waiting – you just click a button directly within the post. Those are Blinks (Blockchain Links).

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The first Solana project: A decentralized voting application

We start the Solana journey with a decentralized voting application, which allows users to put their own idea, poll, or anything else up for vote. Each proposal has a short description, in order to explain to users the poll they are voting on. In addition, votes for and against are processed in the background and data about it is stored on the blockchain. This voting mechanism, although this application is beginner-friendly, can be applied to various types of applications with more or less modifications. Examples of applications are crowdfunding applications, decision-making support in companies, voting for the best solutions or answers, choosing new functionality for an application, choosing the funniest comment… Along with a brief description of the application being written, we will talk about the basic parts and macros used in the program itself, as well as problems I encountered during work. Problems also require a solution, so that is also part of this text and I hope you find it interesting and useful 🙂

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