Squads Actions and Blinks

Get started building Blinks on Squads v4.

What are Solana Actions?

Solana Actions are specification-compliant APIs that return transactions on the Solana blockchain to be previewed, signed, and sent across a number of various contexts, including QR codes, buttons + widgets, and websites across the internet.

Actions make it simple for developers to integrate the things you can do throughout the Solana ecosystem right into your environment, allowing you to perform blockchain transactions without needing to navigate away to a different app or webpage.

What are blockchain links (blinks)?

Blockchain links – or blinks – turn any Solana Action into a shareable, metadata-rich link. Blinks allow Action-aware clients (browser extension wallets, bots) to display additional capabilities for the user. On a website, a blink might immediately trigger a transaction preview in a wallet without going to a decentralized app; in Discord, a bot might expand the blink into an interactive set of buttons. This pushes the ability to interact onchain to any web surface that displays a URL.

Getting Started

Install the @solana/actions SDK into your application:

npm add @solana/actions

Check out both Solana’s official docs and Dialect’s dashboard. Once you’re familiar with blinks, you can use our SDK to start building with Squads inside of a blink. Here's an example of a blink using Squads v4 SDK.

You can test your blink here, and once you’re ready to deploy it to the world you can apply for verification so the blink will render on X.

Ideas to build

Here are a few ideas from the team and community:

1. Create a Squad

   • Add corresponding keys, and a threshold, and deploy a Squad directly from X.

2. Squads Blink Bot

   • Deploy an X bot for a Squad that DMs members of the Squad when transactions are proposed.

3. Add Member

   • Specify a member key and permission levels, and propose to add a member with a blink.

4. Propose a transaction

   • Drop a base64 string and propose a transaction directly from a blink.

5. Propose a stake transaction

   • Allow certain validators to send pre-built stake transactions that can be proposed directly to your squad.

6. Add a Spending Limit

   • Create and configure spending limits via blinks.

7. Enable Rent Reclaim

   • Propose/execute a transaction to enable rent reclamation (or other configuration)

Resources

• Solana's official docs
• Dialect’s dashboard
• Video tutorial on How to Build Solana Actions
• Example of a blink using Squads v4 SDK

Find example code snippets on how to build several different Solana Actions:

• Deployed sample code snippets
• Source code for code snippets

If you have any questions or encounter any issues, please reach out to us on Discord.