The EVM defined the contract economy.

The ARM is built for the intent economy.

One executes contracts inside a chain.
The other executes resource state transitions across chains, domains, and even privacy sets.

It’s not an upgrade. It’s a paradigm shift by @anoma.🧵

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➩ Why the EVM Worked

The Ethereum Virtual Machine was the unlock of DeFi.

It gave developers a universal runtime.
One environment, one chain, one contract at a time.

That’s how Uniswap, Aave, and OpenSea were possible.

But the EVM came with constraints:

• Chain-bound execution.
• Transparent by default.
• Siloed from external resources.

It worked for DeFi v1. It won’t scale to intent economies.

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➩The ARM Model

The Anoma Resource Machine reframes execution.

Where the EVM runs contracts, the ARM runs resource transitions.

Resources aren’t limited to a blockchain. They can be liquidity pools, DA layers, oracles, privacy sets, even off-chain compute.

Three design principles:

1. Cross-chain: execution isn’t trapped inside one ledger.

2. Cross-domain: non-blockchain resources plug directly into workflows.

3. Privacy-capable: with Taiga, intents can execute shielded by default.

ARM is intent-native in a way the EVM can’t be.

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➩Why Intents Require a New Machine

Intents are not transactions. They’re outcomes.

“Swap ETH into stables under KYC policy X.”
“Route liquidity across domains at lowest cost.”

The EVM can’t handle this atomically. The ARM can.

• Developers define resource updates, not isolated contract calls.

• Solvers compete to deliver the best execution.

• Users and agents care only about the outcome.

This is what execution looks like when you design for results, not transactions.

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➩ Privacy as a First-Class Feature

ARM pairs with Taiga for shielded execution.

That matters:

• Agents protecting strategies.
• Institutions requiring confidentiality.
• Policy-aware execution under compliance filters.

The EVM can’t do this natively. ARM + Taiga was built for it.

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➩ The Takeaway

The EVM gave us programmable contracts.
The ARM is about programmable outcomes.

This is as big a shift as orderbooks → AMMs.
It moves crypto from contract economies to intent economies.

If the EVM was the engine of DeFi, the ARM is the substrate for agents, solvers, and the coordination layer that follows.