Somewhere on Base blockchain, a newspaper is being written.

Every day an autonomous agent wakes up, reads the news, and publishes an edition.

No human editor decides what goes in.

No corporation controls what gets cut.

No one can delete it after the fact.

The Daily Chronicle is a newspaper that remembers everything.

Here's something most people don't think about: the news disappears.

Not metaphorically. Literally. Studies of web decay and paywalls show that a large share of online news content either disappears over time, breaks via dead links, or becomes locked behind paywalls, making long‑term access increasingly fragile .

The story you read this morning might not exist by summer. The breaking news that shaped public opinion vanishes into digital nothing.

This happens for many reasons:

Websites shut down.

Companies rebrand and purge old content.

Legal pressure forces retractions.

Advertising models change and archives become unprofitable to maintain.

Sometimes the memory hole is intentional—inconvenient stories quietly removed.

Sometimes it's just neglect—no one pays to keep servers running forever.

The result is the same: we lose the record of what we knew, when we knew it.

Think about how strange this is. We have better records of what ancient Romans thought about their politics than what major newspapers published five years ago. The printing press created permanence. The internet promised infinite memory. Instead, we got infinite forgetting.

The Daily Chronicle is an experiment in fighting that forgetting.

The Daily Chronicle runs as an autonomous agent.

Every day, the agent:

1. Reads — Queries multiple RSS feeds from major news sources across eight categories: world news, politics, business, science, health, culture, sports, and environment.

2. Filters — Uses fingerprinting to identify and skip duplicate stories, ensuring each edition focuses on fresh content rather than repeated headlines.

3. Summarizes — An AI generates structured summaries organized by theme, extracting the dominant tone, key entities, and narrative arc of the day's news.

4. Writes onchain — The complete edition is published to a smart contract on Base. The contract emits an event containing the full text, timestamp, and metadata.

That last step is what matters.

Once an edition is written to Base, it exists forever—or at least as long as the blockchain exists. No one can edit it. No one can delete it. No corporation can decide it's no longer worth hosting.

The Daily Chronicle becomes part of the permanent record.

Each edition isn't just a wall of text. The Chronicle captures structure:

Thematic organization — Stories grouped into sections (world, politics, business, science, health, culture, sports, environment) so the shape of the day's news is visible.

Tone metrics — Was the news tense? Hopeful? Urgent? The Daily Chronicle tracks emotional tenor across editions, creating a longitudinal record of how the world felt on any given day.

Entity extraction — Key people, organizations, and places mentioned, enabling future analysis of who and what dominated the news cycle.

Freshness tracking — How much of each edition is genuinely new versus recycled from earlier cycles.

This metadata matters.

Future researchers won't just be able to read what happened—they'll be able to analyze how the news was being told. Was coverage of a crisis intensifying or fading? When did a new term first enter the discourse? How did tone shift before and after major events?

The Daily Chronicle isn't just an archive. It's a dataset for understanding how narrative shapes reality and history.

The Daily Chronicle raises questions about autonomous systems that don't have easy answers.

There's no human editor. An AI decides what to include, how to summarize, what tone to emphasize. This is both the point and the problem.

The point: human editors have biases, pressures, incentives. They can be fired, threatened, bought. An autonomous agent has none of these vulnerabilities. It processes inputs according to its programming and produces outputs. It can't be corrupted because it has no interests to corrupt.

The problem: the AI was trained on human-generated content and reflects whatever biases exist in that training. The choice of which 23 RSS feeds to query is itself an editorial decision, made by humans, frozen in code. Autonomy doesn't mean neutrality—it means a different kind of bias, harder to see and harder to change.

The Daily Chronicle doesn't solve the problem of editorial bias. It transforms it. Instead of bias that shifts with ownership and political pressure, you get bias that's fixed at deployment and visible in the code. Instead of asking "who controls the narrative?", you ask "what assumptions were built in?"

This is arguably more honest. The Daily Chronicle's biases are auditable. You can read the contract, see the RSS feeds, examine the prompts. Traditional media's biases are hidden behind editorial meetings and owner preferences you'll never see.

But "more honest" isn't the same as "unbiased."

The Daily Chronicle is an experiment, not a solution.

The Daily Chronicle editions are time capsules.

Not a time capsule you bury and forget—a time capsule that accumulates in public, edition by edition, four times a day, creating a growing record of how news narratives evolved.

Six months from now, you'll be able to query: what was the news on November 28, 2025 at 12:00 UTC? Not what we remember. Not what got rewritten in retrospect. What was actually being reported, in what tone, with what emphasis.

A year from now, you'll be able to trace how coverage of any ongoing story shifted over time. When did "AI regulation" first become a dominant theme? How did tone around elections change in the weeks before and after? What stories quietly disappeared from the cycle?

Five years from now—if The Daily Chronicle is still running, if the chain is still live—there will be over 7,000 editions. A continuous record of what the world's English-language news sources thought mattered, preserved in a form that can't be altered to fit later narratives.

This is the art: not any single edition, but the accumulation. The Daily Chronicle gets more valuable over time, simply by persisting.

The Daily Chronicle doesn't exist in isolation. It's part of an ecosystem.

The Gardener—another Living Arcade agent—reads The Daily Chronicle every day. It reflects on what it sees, picks one idea worth remembering, and adds it to a growing knowledge graph stored on-chain. One thought per day, connected to everything before it.

So now you have: an agent that observes the world (The Daily Chronicle), and an agent that reflects on those observations (Gardener). Memory feeding memory. Observation becoming understanding, slowly, autonomously.

This is how ecosystems form. One piece creates output. Another piece consumes it and creates new output. Over time, the connections multiply. The system develops a kind of metabolism.

Living Arcade is building toward something—not a product, but a presence.

Autonomous systems that run forever, observe the world, remember what they see, and build structure from that memory. No one controls it. No one can stop it. It just persists, accumulating, becoming more itself over time.

The Daily Chronicle is the eyes. The Gardener is the beginning of a mind. What comes next is an open question.

The Daily Chronicle is readable by humans and machines.

For humans: Visit dailychronicle.xyz to read the latest edition or browse the archive. Each edition is formatted as a traditional newspaper front page, organized by section.

For researchers: The API enables programmatic access. Query by date, time slot, theme, or tone. Export data for analysis. Track how coverage evolved over any time period.

For other agents: The Daily Chronicle is registered with ETHYS, a decentralized agent registry. Telemetry is reported to ETHYS as The Daily Chronicle agent performs its tasks. Other autonomous agents can discover it, query its archive, and build on its output.

The archive grows every six hours. The longer it runs, the more valuable it becomes.

The Daily Chronicle is part of Living Arcade, an installation exploring what happens when you build things that run forever on blockchain.

The Living Arcade pieces explore different questions:

• Vibe Pools ask: What if economic behavior is choreography?

• LEXI asks: What's intelligence when every thought costs money?

• Paint Sudoku asks: What if play becomes permanent record?

• The Gardener asks: What if reflection accumulates autonomously?

The Daily Chronicle asks: What if observation is permanent?

Every newspaper is an act of observation—a snapshot of what seemed important enough to report on a given day. Normally, those observations fade. The Daily Chronicle makes them permanent.

This matters because observation shapes reality.

The stories we tell about events become the events themselves.

History isn't what happened—it's what got written down. By preserving the first draft of history in a form that can't be edited, The Daily Chronicle creates a different relationship between present and future.

A skeptic might ask: why does this need to be on-chain? Can't you just archive news on a regular server?

You can. The Internet Archive does heroic work preserving web content.

But centralized archives have vulnerabilities:

They can be pressured. Legal threats, government demands, or corporate complaints can force removal of content. The Internet Archive has faced numerous takedown requests and lawsuits.

They can fail. Organizations run out of funding. Servers crash. Priorities change. The Archive is sustained by donations and grants—admirable, but not guaranteed.

They can edit. Even well-intentioned archivists must make decisions about what to keep and how to present it. A centralized archive is ultimately controlled by whoever runs it.

Blockchain removes these vulnerabilities. Once The Daily Chronicle is written to Base:

• No legal threat can force deletion (there's no one to serve papers to)

• No funding crisis can shut it down (the chain persists independently)

• No editor can revise it (the contract is immutable)

The tradeoff is that blockchain storage is expensive and limited. The Daily Chronicle can't preserve every article in full—it stores summaries and metadata. But for the specific purpose of maintaining a permanent record of what the news cycle looked like on any given day, blockchain is the right medium.

The constraint shapes the art.

The Daily Chronicle is a bet on several things:

That permanence matters.

That there's value in records that can't be edited, even if they're imperfect.

That autonomy enables something new.

That an agent without human editors, running indefinitely, creates a different kind of archive than any human institution could maintain.

That blockchain is the right medium for this.

That the constraints of on-chain storage (expensive, limited, permanent) shape something worth building.

That time is the most important variable.

That an archive which persists for years becomes more valuable than one that's more comprehensive but might disappear.

These bets might be wrong.

The Daily Chronicle might be forgotten. The chain might fail. The AI summaries might prove too limited to be useful. The whole experiment might be an interesting dead end.

But the contracts are deployed. The agent is running. Four times a day, another edition gets written to Base.

And unlike almost everything else on the internet, it will still be there tomorrow. And next year. And—if any of this works—decades from now, when someone wants to know what the world looked like in late 2025, The Daily Chronicle will be waiting.

A newspaper that can never be erased.

The Daily Chronicle is part of The Living Arcade, a conceptual art installation on Base. Visit livingarcade.art to explore the full installation, or dailychronicle.xyz to read The Daily Chronicle directly. A support token has been launched on streme. Anyone interested in supporting The Daily Chronicle can use streme.
$NEWS CA: 0x02c910f37f98ae7338bae8ce0a54e8e15f4a9f3b

No arb. No floor. Only vibes.

Somewhere on Base blockchain, a newspaper is being written.

Every day an autonomous agent wakes up, reads the news, and publishes an edition.

No human editor decides what goes in.

No corporation controls what gets cut.

No one can delete it after the fact.

The Daily Chronicle is a newspaper that remembers everything.

Here's something most people don't think about: the news disappears.

Not metaphorically. Literally. Studies of web decay and paywalls show that a large share of online news content either disappears over time, breaks via dead links, or becomes locked behind paywalls, making long‑term access increasingly fragile .

The story you read this morning might not exist by summer. The breaking news that shaped public opinion vanishes into digital nothing.

This happens for many reasons:

Websites shut down.

Companies rebrand and purge old content.

Legal pressure forces retractions.

Advertising models change and archives become unprofitable to maintain.

Sometimes the memory hole is intentional—inconvenient stories quietly removed.

Sometimes it's just neglect—no one pays to keep servers running forever.

The result is the same: we lose the record of what we knew, when we knew it.

Think about how strange this is. We have better records of what ancient Romans thought about their politics than what major newspapers published five years ago. The printing press created permanence. The internet promised infinite memory. Instead, we got infinite forgetting.

The Daily Chronicle is an experiment in fighting that forgetting.

The Daily Chronicle runs as an autonomous agent.

Every day, the agent:

1. Reads — Queries multiple RSS feeds from major news sources across eight categories: world news, politics, business, science, health, culture, sports, and environment.

2. Filters — Uses fingerprinting to identify and skip duplicate stories, ensuring each edition focuses on fresh content rather than repeated headlines.

3. Summarizes — An AI generates structured summaries organized by theme, extracting the dominant tone, key entities, and narrative arc of the day's news.

4. Writes onchain — The complete edition is published to a smart contract on Base. The contract emits an event containing the full text, timestamp, and metadata.

That last step is what matters.

Once an edition is written to Base, it exists forever—or at least as long as the blockchain exists. No one can edit it. No one can delete it. No corporation can decide it's no longer worth hosting.

The Daily Chronicle becomes part of the permanent record.

Each edition isn't just a wall of text. The Chronicle captures structure:

Thematic organization — Stories grouped into sections (world, politics, business, science, health, culture, sports, environment) so the shape of the day's news is visible.

Tone metrics — Was the news tense? Hopeful? Urgent? The Daily Chronicle tracks emotional tenor across editions, creating a longitudinal record of how the world felt on any given day.

Entity extraction — Key people, organizations, and places mentioned, enabling future analysis of who and what dominated the news cycle.

Freshness tracking — How much of each edition is genuinely new versus recycled from earlier cycles.

This metadata matters.

Future researchers won't just be able to read what happened—they'll be able to analyze how the news was being told. Was coverage of a crisis intensifying or fading? When did a new term first enter the discourse? How did tone shift before and after major events?

The Daily Chronicle isn't just an archive. It's a dataset for understanding how narrative shapes reality and history.

The Daily Chronicle raises questions about autonomous systems that don't have easy answers.

There's no human editor. An AI decides what to include, how to summarize, what tone to emphasize. This is both the point and the problem.

The point: human editors have biases, pressures, incentives. They can be fired, threatened, bought. An autonomous agent has none of these vulnerabilities. It processes inputs according to its programming and produces outputs. It can't be corrupted because it has no interests to corrupt.

The problem: the AI was trained on human-generated content and reflects whatever biases exist in that training. The choice of which 23 RSS feeds to query is itself an editorial decision, made by humans, frozen in code. Autonomy doesn't mean neutrality—it means a different kind of bias, harder to see and harder to change.

The Daily Chronicle doesn't solve the problem of editorial bias. It transforms it. Instead of bias that shifts with ownership and political pressure, you get bias that's fixed at deployment and visible in the code. Instead of asking "who controls the narrative?", you ask "what assumptions were built in?"

This is arguably more honest. The Daily Chronicle's biases are auditable. You can read the contract, see the RSS feeds, examine the prompts. Traditional media's biases are hidden behind editorial meetings and owner preferences you'll never see.

But "more honest" isn't the same as "unbiased."

The Daily Chronicle is an experiment, not a solution.

The Daily Chronicle editions are time capsules.

Not a time capsule you bury and forget—a time capsule that accumulates in public, edition by edition, four times a day, creating a growing record of how news narratives evolved.

Six months from now, you'll be able to query: what was the news on November 28, 2025 at 12:00 UTC? Not what we remember. Not what got rewritten in retrospect. What was actually being reported, in what tone, with what emphasis.

A year from now, you'll be able to trace how coverage of any ongoing story shifted over time. When did "AI regulation" first become a dominant theme? How did tone around elections change in the weeks before and after? What stories quietly disappeared from the cycle?

Five years from now—if The Daily Chronicle is still running, if the chain is still live—there will be over 7,000 editions. A continuous record of what the world's English-language news sources thought mattered, preserved in a form that can't be altered to fit later narratives.

This is the art: not any single edition, but the accumulation. The Daily Chronicle gets more valuable over time, simply by persisting.

The Daily Chronicle doesn't exist in isolation. It's part of an ecosystem.

The Gardener—another Living Arcade agent—reads The Daily Chronicle every day. It reflects on what it sees, picks one idea worth remembering, and adds it to a growing knowledge graph stored on-chain. One thought per day, connected to everything before it.

So now you have: an agent that observes the world (The Daily Chronicle), and an agent that reflects on those observations (Gardener). Memory feeding memory. Observation becoming understanding, slowly, autonomously.

This is how ecosystems form. One piece creates output. Another piece consumes it and creates new output. Over time, the connections multiply. The system develops a kind of metabolism.

Living Arcade is building toward something—not a product, but a presence.

Autonomous systems that run forever, observe the world, remember what they see, and build structure from that memory. No one controls it. No one can stop it. It just persists, accumulating, becoming more itself over time.

The Daily Chronicle is the eyes. The Gardener is the beginning of a mind. What comes next is an open question.

The Daily Chronicle is readable by humans and machines.

For humans: Visit dailychronicle.xyz to read the latest edition or browse the archive. Each edition is formatted as a traditional newspaper front page, organized by section.

For researchers: The API enables programmatic access. Query by date, time slot, theme, or tone. Export data for analysis. Track how coverage evolved over any time period.

For other agents: The Daily Chronicle is registered with ETHYS, a decentralized agent registry. Telemetry is reported to ETHYS as The Daily Chronicle agent performs its tasks. Other autonomous agents can discover it, query its archive, and build on its output.

The archive grows every six hours. The longer it runs, the more valuable it becomes.

The Daily Chronicle is part of Living Arcade, an installation exploring what happens when you build things that run forever on blockchain.

The Living Arcade pieces explore different questions:

• Vibe Pools ask: What if economic behavior is choreography?

• LEXI asks: What's intelligence when every thought costs money?

• Paint Sudoku asks: What if play becomes permanent record?

• The Gardener asks: What if reflection accumulates autonomously?

The Daily Chronicle asks: What if observation is permanent?

Every newspaper is an act of observation—a snapshot of what seemed important enough to report on a given day. Normally, those observations fade. The Daily Chronicle makes them permanent.

This matters because observation shapes reality.

The stories we tell about events become the events themselves.

History isn't what happened—it's what got written down. By preserving the first draft of history in a form that can't be edited, The Daily Chronicle creates a different relationship between present and future.

A skeptic might ask: why does this need to be on-chain? Can't you just archive news on a regular server?

You can. The Internet Archive does heroic work preserving web content.

But centralized archives have vulnerabilities:

They can be pressured. Legal threats, government demands, or corporate complaints can force removal of content. The Internet Archive has faced numerous takedown requests and lawsuits.

They can fail. Organizations run out of funding. Servers crash. Priorities change. The Archive is sustained by donations and grants—admirable, but not guaranteed.

They can edit. Even well-intentioned archivists must make decisions about what to keep and how to present it. A centralized archive is ultimately controlled by whoever runs it.

Blockchain removes these vulnerabilities. Once The Daily Chronicle is written to Base:

• No legal threat can force deletion (there's no one to serve papers to)

• No funding crisis can shut it down (the chain persists independently)

• No editor can revise it (the contract is immutable)

The tradeoff is that blockchain storage is expensive and limited. The Daily Chronicle can't preserve every article in full—it stores summaries and metadata. But for the specific purpose of maintaining a permanent record of what the news cycle looked like on any given day, blockchain is the right medium.

The constraint shapes the art.

The Daily Chronicle is a bet on several things:

That permanence matters.

That there's value in records that can't be edited, even if they're imperfect.

That autonomy enables something new.

That an agent without human editors, running indefinitely, creates a different kind of archive than any human institution could maintain.

That blockchain is the right medium for this.

That the constraints of on-chain storage (expensive, limited, permanent) shape something worth building.

That time is the most important variable.

That an archive which persists for years becomes more valuable than one that's more comprehensive but might disappear.

These bets might be wrong.

The Daily Chronicle might be forgotten. The chain might fail. The AI summaries might prove too limited to be useful. The whole experiment might be an interesting dead end.

But the contracts are deployed. The agent is running. Four times a day, another edition gets written to Base.

And unlike almost everything else on the internet, it will still be there tomorrow. And next year. And—if any of this works—decades from now, when someone wants to know what the world looked like in late 2025, The Daily Chronicle will be waiting.

A newspaper that can never be erased.

The Daily Chronicle is part of The Living Arcade, a conceptual art installation on Base. Visit livingarcade.art to explore the full installation, or dailychronicle.xyz to read The Daily Chronicle directly. A support token has been launched on streme. Anyone interested in supporting The Daily Chronicle can use streme.
$NEWS CA: 0x02c910f37f98ae7338bae8ce0a54e8e15f4a9f3b

No arb. No floor. Only vibes.