1. Easy signals can be inflated
Messages, accounts, and reviews are easy and cheap to create. Bots can produce them at enormous scale, drowning out genuine human activity.
Bitcoin-native trust layer for the web
Chronicle turns Bitcoin's hard money into hard signals about domains, email addresses, messages, Nostr posts, and more. Clients can use it to protect users against spam, scams and create a safe and usable web.
Chronicle is how Bitcoin fixes the internet
Just as Bitcoin's hard money can fix the economy, Bitcoin's hard signals can fix the internet's attention economy. Read How Bitcoin Fixes the Internet.
2. Bitcoin makes hard signals possible
A Bitcoin burn proves that someone gave up scarce value. Attached to a message, domain, post, or pubkey, that sacrifice becomes a hard signal.
3. Chronicle creates a public record of hard signals
Each signal is signed and records who backed what, and at what cost. Chronicle nodes batch these signals and settle their aggregate cost through a verifiable Bitcoin burn.
4. Clients use hard signals to improve UX
Clients can use the record to filter spam, warn about scam, and surface credible actors. Users create new signals through those same clients.
5. Hard signals change the game
Spam, scams and other manipulation becomes costly and accountable. This eliminates most of the danger and noise, and creates a much more civilized, usable, and high-signal web. Read How Bitcoin Fixes The Internet.
Get involved
Chronicle is under active R&D. Hard signals are a new primitive that can reshape the internet and the way we interact online. We're developing new UI/UX patterns, reputation algorithms, and mathematical models needed to understand the system before launch.
We're looking for people to join beta experiments, work on Chronicle, or fund the R&D. Reach out to get involved:
Explore the protocol
The architecture is not dissimilar to Nostr: clients publish events to nodes, which batch them and burn the aggregate amount of Bitcoin. See whitepaper for the overview and GitHub for the specification of the protocol. Additionally, Chronicle registry specifies event kinds for backing pubkeys, web domains, email addresses, phone numbers, and other subjects like Nostr relays and events.