Most projects start with purpose. The Living Arcade started with a question: What happens when purpose is removed but motion remains? ⸻The PremiseEvery system on-chain seeks efficiency: faster swaps, cheaper gas, higher yield. The Arcade does the opposite. It converts effort into spectacle. It’s a design experiment: a functioning market stripped of incentive, leaving only the choreography. Bots trade, Operators deploy, fees circulate — and nothing is solved. The game never balances. That’s wh...

Most projects start with purpose. The Living Arcade started with a question: What happens when purpose is removed but motion remains? ⸻The PremiseEvery system on-chain seeks efficiency: faster swaps, cheaper gas, higher yield. The Arcade does the opposite. It converts effort into spectacle. It’s a design experiment: a functioning market stripped of incentive, leaving only the choreography. Bots trade, Operators deploy, fees circulate — and nothing is solved. The game never balances. That’s wh...

THE WORK IS ALIVE.The Living Arcade doesn’t imitate life; it performs it. Motion, decay, and persistence are its breath. What begins as code becomes behavior. What behaves becomes form. ⸻THERE ARE NO OBJECTS HERE.Each cabinet is a living system, not an image, not a symbol. The artwork is the execution itself — the act of continuing. ⸻THE OPERATOR IS NOT THE AUTHOR.To press Confirm is to surrender control. Creation ends where autonomy begins. Once deployed, the work belongs to time, not to the...

THE WORK IS ALIVE.The Living Arcade doesn’t imitate life; it performs it. Motion, decay, and persistence are its breath. What begins as code becomes behavior. What behaves becomes form. ⸻THERE ARE NO OBJECTS HERE.Each cabinet is a living system, not an image, not a symbol. The artwork is the execution itself — the act of continuing. ⸻THE OPERATOR IS NOT THE AUTHOR.To press Confirm is to surrender control. Creation ends where autonomy begins. Once deployed, the work belongs to time, not to the...

WELCOME to The Living Arcade — a living systems installation built on Base. This isn't a game you can win. It's not a protocol you can optimize. It's a living sculpture made of code, curiosity, and the strangest material in crypto: vibes.

WELCOME to The Living Arcade — a living systems installation built on Base. This isn't a game you can win. It's not a protocol you can optimize. It's a living sculpture made of code, curiosity, and the strangest material in crypto: vibes.