No Blockchain Knowledge Required
Your journalism,
permanently on record.
PressChain is a blockchain protocol that makes your published work permanently verifiable, publicly validated, and economically yours. You keep your existing workflow. You just need to report.
What This Means in Practice
Meet Maya Chen, an investigative reporter at a regional newspaper. She has been covering city hall corruption for three months. She has documents, sources, and a story that officials are already calling false. Before PressChain, when her article was published:- Officials could pressure her editor
- The story could be quietly edited or taken down
- Evidence could be denied
- Revenue from syndication might get lost in the chain
- Her article is submitted to the public for validation
- Her sources are hash-committed at publication - tampering is provable
- If officials dispute her story, it goes through a formal court process with evidence and jurors
- Any newspaper that republishes pays her directly, on-chain, instantly
The Five Things That Change
Your story can never be silently deleted
Your story can never be silently deleted
Once your article passes public acceptance on PressChain, it is permanent. No editor, outlet owner, advertiser, or court order can erase it. Corrections create a new version that points back to the original. Both stay visible forever.This matters most when powerful people want your story gone.
The public validates your journalism
The public validates your journalism
Your article goes through a 72-hour public vote. People with verified identities and economic stakes vote on whether your work meets the standard for canonical journalism.It is not a popularity contest. It is a structured public process. You cannot buy your way through it.
Your evidence is locked in at publication
Your evidence is locked in at publication
When you submit your story, you attach your sources - archived web pages, documents, transcripts. These are hashed and permanently committed. If someone later claims your source does not exist, you can prove it did at the exact moment you published.
Disputes go to a formal process, not a delete button
Disputes go to a formal process, not a delete button
You earn directly from your work
You earn directly from your work
Accepted articles can be licensed commercially through the Rights Marketplace. When another outlet buys the rights to republish your story, the revenue is split between you and your editor automatically, on-chain, instantly, without a publisher taking a cut.
What You Do Not Have to Change
You keep your existing workflow. Your CMS. Your WordPress. Your editorial process. PressChain adds a protocol layer on top - it does not replace how you write or publish.
Your Path Forward
Set Up PressKey
Your identity wallet. Takes 5 minutes. Everything else depends on this.
What Is a Capsule?
The structured version of your article. Understand what gets submitted and why.
How Voting Works
Who votes, how it is weighted, and what happens at the end of 72 hours.
Register Your Outlet
For editors and outlet owners - get your newsroom on the protocol.
Quick Glossary
| Term | What It Means |
|---|---|
| Capsule | Your article, structured as a protocol object with evidence, contributors, and history |
| Canonical | Your article passed public acceptance and is permanently on the record |
| PressKey | Your identity wallet - signs every action you take on PressChain |
| Bond | PRESS tokens you lock as economic commitment to your role |
| Acceptance | The 72-hour public vote process that makes a Capsule canonical |
| Court | The on-chain dispute system - resolves challenges through process, not deletion |
| PRESS | The native token - used for fees, bonds, and governance |
| Integrity Label | The permanent public record of how your article fared over time |