Griffain's thousand-fold increase has boosted the Blinks ecosystem. Will "Blinks+AI" be the next Golden Dog incubator?

Since Solana announced that it would launch its first AI hackathon, the market's attention to AI Agent has returned to Solana. GriffAIn has a market value of 300 million US dollars, driving Blink to rise nearly 300 times in 48 hours, and BGG1 to rise nearly 10 times in 24 hours. Send returned with Arcade and AI sectors to advance the Blinks ecosystem. It has recently adjusted back, but its potential cannot be ignored. This seems to suggest that Blinks, which was popular this summer, will return in winter.

Solana AI dark horse, Web3 version of Perplexity

The final form of search engines in the AI era should be that the demand side puts forward demands, and AI directly provides results or solutions instead of providing web pages to users. Now Copilot and Perplexity are working hard to realize this vision, and there is also an artificial intelligence agent engine on the Solana chain - GriffAIn.

On November 1, Tony released GriffAIn for the first time at the Hacking for Agentic Finance hackathon, expressing the vision of turning your ideas into a practical agent engine. It immediately attracted a lot of attention from the Solana ecosystem, including Toly, vvAIfu, Jupiter, and Dialect, all of whom expressed their support or further cooperation to improve the product. The market value of its official token has soared since it went online on November 3. The market value has now exceeded 300 million US dollars and is still breaking through the previous high.

If Blinks is a model house, everything you need is in it, but you have to bring what you like and take out what you hate.

GriffAIn is a full-house high-end customization. It can satisfy whatever you want, and you only need to tell it your needs. GriffAIn connects the demand side with the Solana ecosystem. As long as it exists within the scope of Solana's existing technical system, it can basically meet the needs, whether it is sniping certain tokens that meet the requirements or creating tokens on Pumpfun, or wanting to use Solana to buy a bottle of whiskey, or wanting to release a Blink NFT on Twitter for your fans to mint.

Currently only available to users holding Sage phones, users can activate Griffan by minting GriffAIn's Saga Genesis Token. Now GriffAIn also supports mobile terminals.

The same founder, Blinkdotfun, who was suddenly "discovered by value"

In September 2016, a young man from San Francisco State University opened the door to Uber. If nothing unexpected happened, you might never know him until the token of the project he founded recently had a market value of more than 250 million US dollars on the Solana chain. He is the founder of Graffin—Tony Plasencia.

Unlike other cryptocurrency founders who often hide their personal information, you can easily find any information about him online. Until now, you can still see his views on various social phenomena on Medium. After leaving Uber, he participated in and invested in many startups, including the American family service website Thumbtack invested by well-known VCs such as Sequoia Capital, and the meal ordering platform ritual.

After many twists and turns, he founded his first blockchain project (Underdog Protocol) in 2022. Although it now seems to be a platform for issuing NFTs, Blinks and SPL Tokens without code, the intention in the early days of its establishment was to finance the future of individuals as tokens, which is quite similar to the Human Agent investment platform. Although this project did not cause a big stir in the market, it was also his first stop in blockchain entrepreneurship.

Those who participated in the Solana ecosystem in the middle of this year must have been impressed by Blinks. Blinks consists of two parts: Actions (Solana Actions) and Blinks (BlockchAIn links). Actions provides a compliant API to quickly complete operations such as transfers and execution of smart contracts. It is efficient and has low latency, suitable for various application scenarios; Blinks converts Actions into shareable links, allowing users to directly preview and trigger on-chain transactions on web pages or social platforms.

Under the market's FOMO sentiment at the time, Blinks derived a variety of products, such as Polymarket on X, signing multi-signature wallets directly through blinks in private messages, playing games, and rewarding various types of products.

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Tony, who has been deeply involved in the Solana ecosystem, certainly would not miss this opportunity. He and his team developed a platform for launching Blinks tokens and NFTs at this time - Blinkdotfun, which reflects the rise and fall of the token market value by locking the Sol of the bought and sold tokens in the Bonding Curve. Users can share links on X so that others can buy or sell tokens directly on X, allowing X It became his launch platform.

The platform token "Blink" issued by it was also in the market FOMO at the time, although as the popularity of the Blinks ecosystem in the market gradually faded, the market value also fell to 100,000 US dollars.

With the recent surge in the market value of GriffAIn, "Blink" has also been rediscovered by value, with the market value rising by 300 times in 48 hours. Until the deadline, the market value of "Blink" exceeded 30 million US dollars, driving the entire Blink ecosystem to become hot again. Although it sounds very confusing, blink this blink that, but in the blink of an eye, Blink has found a new path - Blinks+AI.

Blinks+AI, let the market blink again

Solana has become the channel for most new developers to enter the blockchain in 2024. I believe that in addition to memecoin, what attracted them was Goat's financing to humans through pumpfun as an AI agent in October. From a certain perspective, this is an AI singularity, which has attracted many AI developers to grow wildly in this land.

In a short period of time, a huge number of AI agents appeared on Solana, many of which were full of experiments. Because of the excellent liquidity of the entire chain and the perfect developer community, Solana developers have a sense of relaxation that I will do whatever I think of first. It is not an exaggeration to call it the most imaginative AI Agent culture dish in the world.

At this point in time, Solana did two things:

The first thing is to use GriffAIn as a case of Blink+AI agent to revitalize the Blink ecosystem. Because in order to bring a real "Agentic app szn", in addition to AI, there are also channels for infrastructure.

The second thing is to take the community NFT project SEND, which was once issued on Blinks, and put on AI's new clothes to transform into "SendAI". Together, they invited an all-star lineup to hold the first Solana AI hackathon. In addition to the luxurious lineup, the poster also wrote the AI agents in 6 fields that they wanted to review.

So it is necessary to connect the developers of the two ecosystems. The developers of the Blink ecosystem are responsible for developing new applications and combining the functions of the Solana chain with external platforms or apps, strengthening the platform's influence and the interoperability between the upstream and midstream of Solana.

And the developers of AI Agent only need to use all their imagination to find the usage scenarios that users may have. One is responsible for the supply side, infrastructure, and channels, and the other is responsible for direct connection with users. A complete closed loop of the developer ecosystem is completed.

And because blink is simple enough, it is just a string of addresses or QR codes, which can be easily embedded in the functions of AI, so users do not need to jump to another scene, but only need a sentence.

So, don't blink, the next version of AI is here.