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Good question. Blocks are an abstraction for storage, but they will be an abstraction over other things that have not been announced yet

Great question! We’re still on our way to a more formal announcement of everything blocks will do, but we’re beginning to use them as components because they’re so darn powerful :slightly_smiling_face:

The shortest version: they store encrypted configuration for &lt;something&gt; in the database with easy lookup by name

Does that mean that blocks will be an abstraction that the end user will never interact with directly?

No, they'll be used directly and indirectly.

A mystery wrapped in an enigma. I’m cool with that