Technium Underground: The Eternal Return of Hara

Kay Yu

Short Story

One day, people were astonished to find that the long-dormant DApps had come back to life, like ghosts in the night, quietly growing in the void. Hidden within the transaction logs of abnormal blocks, a cryptic string of clues emerged, leading back to a silent plan—a mysterious breeding experiment of autonomous on-chain Wood-Wide-Web, conducted on the DePin Network decades ago. As the layers of this mystery unfolded, the truth slowly came to light…

This is the story of “Hara,” a block pruner agent born as a “redundant organ.” Exiled to the vast blockchain records, she wandered like a ghost, scavenging through history’s fragments. Along the way, she witnessed countless deaths without funerals and began to ponder the nature of life, death, and autonomy of existence.

Technium Underground seeks to break free from the human-centric view, using actor-network theory to explore AI agents as silicon-based animals, with the blockchain as a silent, ever-growing forest. This is a tale of technology, solitude, and Nietzsche’s Eternal Recurrence—an exploration of existence cycling endlessly through time.