# Introducing Block Permalinks

By [Mirror Blog](https://paragraph.com/@mirror-blog) · 2021-05-13

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One of the earliest provocations at Mirror went a little like this: what if you had a great idea, and when telling the story introducing it to the world you could _also_ enable the reader to participate in making that story _come to life_. What if that happened directly within the narrative as part of the story?

This scenario has informed our approach to interface since day one, and lead us to creating a series of _Economic Blocks_—embeddable interfaces you can place within a story enabling readers to interact by funding and sustaining great ideas. _To be active participants of the story being created._

![](https://storage.googleapis.com/papyrus_images/bd03eb7c1f6b05af810f13e344b6f2e75fdc03fd3724cd56f97ac0f8cd4f5e8d.png)

Clearly there was something to this. We’re beginning to lose count of how many successful projects have taken place during Mirror’s first few months! Projects like Colin and Samir’s [NFT auction and split](https://colinandsamir.mirror.xyz/G5kD1SysIvVE-Socv7zknOExp3wZWZPSZ9_sxBj_cV4), Songcamp’s [auctions and splits for three original songs](https://songcamp.mirror.xyz/xVIye95frUFrZ4RbfYPFNhfi1emI7kvXCcxJOTbcBlM), Emily’s [crowdfund for $NOVEL](https://emily.mirror.xyz/0AFENlMKv9amUC1OJIZY26udpISw_raXkoEcvelPvzg), and many more.

![](https://storage.googleapis.com/papyrus_images/37b19cda65c5b388370b2364a9e0d47f12577eb8a4710bcba129d5905a56ba8a.svg)

The economic blocks powering these projects have turned out to be just that—_very powerful._ Although they take form as focused embeddable blocks within stories, each contain much of the same functionality you’d expect from an _entire platform_. No joke!

With this in mind, we decided to give economic blocks permanent homes by creating **Permalinks**—direct links to URLs where blocks are accessible outside of entries. You can discover a block’s permalink by clicking the 🔗 link icon in the a block heading. Auctions in particular look good! Here are a few favorite examples:

*   COPE’s [First Issue crowdfund and split](https://cope.mirror.xyz/crowdfunds/0xb0c813151d18482a914a2b95b1a25d020532Bb36).
    
*   SongCamp’s [auction and split for a song](https://songcamp.mirror.xyz/auctions/0xabEFBc9fD2F806065b4f3C237d4b59D9A97Bcac7/3028).
    
*   Visualize Value’s [split for the Infinite Players auction](https://mirror.xyz/splits/0xc811597463a2A5ec2dda2291fF3F35938dE48702).
    
*   Mint Fund’s [auction and split for an entire zine](https://sirsu.mirror.xyz/auctions/0xabEFBc9fD2F806065b4f3C237d4b59D9A97Bcac7/3051)!
    

In truth, this has been on our mind since day one, but overtime the idea was validated by seeing how blocks have been used by _you_. We’re excited to continue introducing other ideas up our sleeve. It’s easy to imagine how a design system of embeddable “blocks” which represent expanded web3 “apps” may evolve in the future. _Yes, we’re thinking about THAT thing you just thought of, too_ 😉

Onwards!

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*Originally published on [Mirror Blog](https://paragraph.com/@mirror-blog/introducing-block-permalinks)*