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You write one kind sentence. I donate a dime. A blockchain makes sure I do.

This is a submission for the DEV Weekend Challenge: Generosity Edition . What I Built Kindness Chain is one page. You write one sentence about a kind thing you did or will do today, add your name if you want, and click "Add my link". Your sentence appears in the feed, then flips to "confirmed" with a link to Solana Explorer, because it was just written to the Solana devnet as an SPL Memo…

Kindness Chain is an online platform where users can write one sentence about a kind thing they did or will do today, and for each confirmed link added, the platform donates $0.10 to the International Institute of Minnesota. The donation caps at $50. The chain is publicly transparent, as every memo on the chain is stored on a public ledger, and the counting can be done by anyone using a Solana RPC node.

The pledge is link #0, and for every link after it, the user is owed $0.10. The code for the project was built in just two days, with a total of 10 commits and 94 tests, all against a fake ledger to avoid network usage.

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