Ethereum

Anoma as the universal intent machine for Ethereum

by Christopher Goes

Anoma as the universal intent machine for Ethereum

by Christopher Goes

https://ethresear.ch/t/rfc-draft-anoma-as-the-universal-intent-machine-for-ethereum/19109

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Anoma brings a universal intent machine to Ethereum, allowing developers to write applications in terms of intents, which can be ordered, solved, and settled anywhere in the Ethereum ecosystem.

An intent is a commitment to user preferences and constraints over the space of possible state transitions.

The Anoma protocol brings a universal intent machine to Ethereum, allowing developers to write applications in terms of intents instead of transactions.

Anoma is an interface, not an intermediary - it’s not another MEV redirection device.

Intents and applications written with Anoma can be ordered, solved, and settled anywhere - on the Ethereum main chain, on EVM and non-EVM rollups, on Eigenlayer AVSs, or any sufficiently programmable state machine.

Anoma provides four key affordances: permissionless intent infrastructure, intent-level composability, information flow control, and heterogeneous trust - using three mechanisms: the resource machine, the heterogeneous trust node architecture, and languages for explicit service commitments.

Anoma is compatible with any topology the Ethereum network chooses.

What could an intent data flow look like? Something like this.

Anoma provides a universal intent standard which does not constrain what kinds of intents can be expressed, but allows for built-in state, network, and application interoperability.