Chronicle is a decentralized oracle protocol that originated as the first oracle deployed on Ethereum, later spun out from MakerDAO as a standalone infrastructure company, per Axios. Chronicle's Twitter Score is 70 out of 1000 (a Good rating) as of August 2026, ranking #11,836 (top 5%) among 483,944 tracked accounts.
Chronicle was founded by Niklas Kunkel and traces its origins to 2017, when it was co-developed to support the creation of SAI, the predecessor to DAI. Its role within MakerDAO grew into that of exclusive oracle guardian, at times securing more than $20 billion in assets on the protocol. The network is underpinned by a community-powered consensus layer of 22 validator node operators, including Infura, Etherscan, Gnosis, Gitcoin, Argent, MakerDAO, and dYdX.
Chronicle has developed the Scribe oracle cryptographic primitive, which reduces oracle gas fees by over 60% on L1 and over 68% on L2. The protocol has been audited by Chain Security, ABDK, and Spearbit. Chronicle is affiliated with Spark Protocol, Securitize, MoonPay, M0, Apollo Diversified Credit Fund, Centrifuge as its primary oracle partner, Monad, and Morpho.
Chronicle has received backing from Galaxy, Brevan Howard Digital, Tioga Capital Partners, 6th Man Ventures, Fenbushi Capital, Robot Ventures, Gnosis, Distributed Capital Partners, UDHC, CVVC, and Credibly Neutral. Chronicle has been mentioned by 156 accounts a total of 413 times, and the account has published 3,052 posts.
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The accounts that follow Chronicle include 243 founders, 76 angel investors, 83 influencers and 9 VCs, among them Laura Shin, Tarun Chitra, Vance Spencer, Messari By Blockworks, John Wang and Mario Nawfal.