Anoma is a platform that showcases interesting application concepts

By: Tia, Techub News

Anoma’s goal is to provide a universal intent machine interface for applications, which means that with Anoma, developers can write applications based on intent and distributed intent machines, rather than based on transactions and specific state machines. Anoma provides a common standard for intent and applications, it does not limit what types of intent can be expressed, but allows for interoperability of state, network, and applications. In general, Anoma standardizes whether the intent is fulfilled, but does not standardize the computational approach to the solution. Intents and applications written with Anoma can be sorted, matched, and settled anywhere.

By decomposing the smallest unit of collaboration and building a whole set of frameworks based on ‘intent’, Anoma believes that when enough users accumulate on Anoma, countless interweaving ‘intentions’ will emerge, leading to novel product creation and unprecedented collaborative experiences. Today, the team has come up with many novel ideas about the applications that could be built on Anoma, and the following is a brief introduction to these application concepts.

Public Signal

Public Signal is a financing platform. Currently, mainstream public goods financing platforms such as Kickstarter usually adopt a project-based approach, which requires project parties in need of funds to release relevant information about their projects on the platform, and sponsors decide whether to donate. This is a demand-side market. The difference with Public Signal is that its intent-based architecture allows fund providers to express their needs, such as setting up an intent to donate to the “Earth Ecological Restoration Project” and donating to that intent.

When the funding provider users donate based on intent, it can bring such a benefit, that is, when a group of users with a common intent can raise funds to obtain a product exclusively for that specific group. For example, when a group of users who want to produce a universal and compatible with most blockchains encryption mobile phone form an autonomous community and donate to it, this will force the production side to react. At this point, consumers will no longer be passive recipients of the product, but will have the initiative to build the direction of the product through intent.

Of course, there can be more examples of intention-based donations, such as,

• Based on identity: Any project that donates more than 10 ETH to Vitalik can donate 1 ETH.
• Based on information: You can donate 1 ETH to any project conducting superconductivity research.
• Based on incentive: Donate 10 ETH to any project that offers refund rewards.
• Based on the threshold: Any project that raises more than 50% of its funding goal within 1 week or less can donate 10,000 NAM.

Scale-free kudos (Scale-free kudos)

Usually, people believe that currency was born as an intermediary for bartering. However, in David Graeber’s book, we can see that the concept of credit had already emerged before the birth of currency. In tribes, people kept simple records of who gave what to whom and settled regularly. This was the embryonic form of early free-scale currency. If a resident had good credit, he could get what he needed when he needed it, and then repay with other goods in the future.

But in today’s world, this form of accounting cannot be scaled, so we live in a world of legal tender. In the world of legal tender, currency is only issued by a few (hopefully) trusted institutions, such as governments and banks, and people do not trade personal credit in their daily interactions, but rather the debts issued by these institutions.

This brings about the centralization problem of trust in fiat currency. It is possible that a few individuals who prioritize personal interests over public interests become controllers of the currency supply mechanism and use a portion of the currency for their own private purposes.

Scale-free kudos (Scale-free kudos) is a credit currency that anyone can issue. Since the form of repayment is usually in the other party’s credit currency, the parties exchanging credit (which may be heterogeneous) have a common interest in each other’s future success. If I teach you something and you owe me money, I don’t care if what I teach you is right or wrong, I just want to convince you to pay me more. If I teach you something, and you pay me with credit, then I might want to teach you something that is right and useful so that your credit will be valuable to me in the future. That’s the main idea of free-scale kudos, which can be found in the article Towards Heterotopia – the prerequisite cultural and technological foundations for a return to the world of free-scale credit money.

prediction market

The prediction market is used to collect information and predict future events, so it is also called the “futures market of ideas” or the “information market”. It can serve as a tool for information gathering and merge information into precise estimates, allowing everyone to use these estimates to make decisions, and the trading price for a particular event represents the likelihood of that event happening.

Prediction markets can be used not only for weather forecasting or political election forecasting, but also to create free markets for different topics, so people can connect money with their opinions. Extending this concept, perhaps in the future, prediction markets can serve as an alternative to news sources, creating a new form of information driven by financial incentives for truth, rather than by clickbait.

In the Anoma architecture, users will make predictions based on their intentions. The advantage of this approach is that there is no need to rely on ‘solvers’ to update the oracle machine in many markets. Therefore, in a sense, users have more ability to capture the MEV of the prediction market. More importantly, if properly incentivized, it can help maintain decentralization in the solver market.

Multichat

In the world of Web2, centralized servers store all data, and users’ data on social software cannot be migrated. Major social software platforms build their own moats by increasing the cost of user migration. Multichat is a decentralized social app based on Anoma. Users can control information visibility preferences, and because Anoma is intent-based, it has intent composability, which means that different programs can match and settle as long as there are composable intents. At the same time, it also carries ZKP to encrypt the original data 01928374656574839201.

时间银行 Time Banks

Unlike currency as a medium of exchange, time banks allow users to deposit time or earn ‘time credits’ by providing skills to people with points. Currently used more in the elderly care industry, for example, young people can contribute time to take care of the elderly, and then they can save this time and redeem it when they reach the age that they need care. Time banks built on Anoma can use Anoma for accounting and settlement.