Tech Session: DSCVR

In this BLOKC tech session, Rick, Co-Founder, CEO, and CTO of DSCVR, introduces Canvas, the platform’s framework for embedding interactive apps inside a Web3 social network. The session draws on an ecosystem that includes Dora Hacks, Metaplex, Tweed, Matrix, and the Solana Foundation, showing how developers can ship apps where users already spend their time.

What the session covers

Canvas is an open framework that lets developers embed full, reactive web apps directly into DSCVR’s social feeds. Building a Canvas app closely mirrors standard Web2 engineering: you write ordinary HTML and React and add a specific meta tag to the document header. The Canvas SDK connects to the platform’s native GraphQL API and supports custom aspect ratios up to 1,000 pixels, Blowfish security verification, and Solana wallets such as Phantom, Backpack, and Solflare. WebAssembly support goes further, allowing full game engines to run in a feed, including a demonstration of Doom playing inside a post.

What you can build

Canvas acts as a distribution engine, exposing apps to more than 100,000 daily active users without anyone leaving the feed. Developers can build Watch-to-Earn apps, micro-games, AI-generated custom feeds, and embedded DAO voting summaries. Single-click Metaplex Core NFT mints can live inside a post comment or a streak mechanic, turning ordinary social interactions into on-chain actions.

What’s next

DSCVR plans to drive adoption through continuous Canvas hackathons on Dora Hacks. The roadmap also includes tighter integration hooks so Canvas apps can request user context, support real-time websocket states, and port social identities to external web properties.