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More new blocks than ever before, as well as improvements to the type editor, Block Protocol for WordPress plugin, and Þ Hub.

February 2023 marks our biggest ever update to the Block Protocol, including an overhauled semantic type system, API-powered blocks, and support for Þ blocks in WordPress.

Less than a month in, 2023 has so far seen the arrival of bitemporal versioning, block comments, and improved entity/type editing in HASH. We’ve also launched a new Block Protocol website.

Monthly updates are here! In our first, we share our vision, and introduce you to the new entity/type editors at the heart of HASH and the Block Protocol.

Walled gardens and data silos. The separation of application data and logic. Data portability, translation and type convergence. We dive into all of these, and both the incentive structures that stand in-between, as well as those that promise to unlock, the “entity layer”.

Learn how the Block protocol enables frontend components to be built once but used across many different contexts without any application-specific knowledge or support.

Economic theory often only describes what a system is like under ‘perfect’ conditions, which makes it hard to apply models to real-life situations. Agent-based modeling helps fill that gap by reducing the number of assumptions economists have to make.

While monkeypox is not typically thought of as a sexually-transmitted disease (STI), its current outbreak poses a number of challenges for health policymakers. Open-source simulations, as well as data relating to the new outbreak are already available to use on HASH.

Curious about the dynamics of auctions within the NFT/web3 world? Join us as we dive into first- and second-price sealed-bid auctions, and the revenue equivalence theorem.