Overview of Popular Projects in the Intent Track

With the development of the cryptocurrency market and advancements in the DeFi sector, more and more users are beginning to participate in on-chain activities, seeking new opportunities for profit. However, the complex operational steps deter many new Web3 users.

In the current Web3 ecosystem, there are a large number of cryptocurrencies, blockchains, and cross-chain bridges, making it difficult for new users to intuitively find the best trading methods. The "Intent Center" track aims to address this issue, achieving large-scale adoption of cryptocurrencies and enabling more Web2 users to easily enter the Web3 world.

What is intent?

In Web3, "intention" refers to the specific goals that users wish to achieve within the blockchain ecosystem, representing the desired end state. Unlike explicitly indicating "how" to perform an action, intention focuses on the expected outcome of the operation.

The core of the Intent Protocol is to allow users to simply state their goals while leaving the specific implementation to professionals. For example, if a user wants to go from point A to point E, the traditional method requires completing the process step by step from A to B to C to D to E. In the Intent Protocol, the user only needs to express the intent "from A to E", and the specific steps can be executed by a solver (, which can be a person, AI, or another protocol ).

The intent protocol not only simplifies the trading process for new users but may also save Gas fees and execute transactions at optimal prices through solvers, improving efficiency. This paradigm will change the way Web3 interactions occur, making them more efficient, secure, and easier to attract billions of Web2 users.

Popular Intent Networks/Protocols

dappOS

As an execution network that addresses priceable intentions, dappOS meets users' needs for low-threshold on-chain interactions. Users only need to submit their intentions, and dappOS along with its solver nodes will execute them in a decentralized manner. The network can execute various forms of intentions, including application contract interactions, inscription minting strategies, copy trading, and Telegram bot trading.

dappOS also provides compatible middleware that allows developers to extend the "intention" capability to more dApps at a low cost while maintaining decentralized characteristics. This drives the integration of dApps towards "decentralized intention applications."

As the ecosystem develops, dappOS is expected to attract more users to participate, forming a network effect, further optimizing the intent execution network, reducing costs, and improving efficiency and user experience. This, in turn, will encourage more dApps to support dappOS. It is worth noting that dappOS is introducing the governance token $DOS, and the growth of network revenue and transactions will provide returns for token holders.

Anoma

The Anoma protocol is one of the first projects to introduce the concept of "intention", providing a general dApp architecture that is centered around intention. This architecture is designed to meet a wide range of requests, allowing service-providing dApps to connect intentions with a solver network, facilitating the matching of user intentions with solvers in various applications and scenarios.

It is worth mentioning that Anoma is actually an "interface", a series of freely replicable code, rather than a mediation chain. This means that Anoma can be deployed on any existing L1, L1.5, L2, or non-EVM chains, such as Ethereum mainnet, Arbitrum, Solana, Cosmos, and Eigenlayer AVS.

Particle Network

Particle Network is building a universal dApp framework called Intent Fusion Protocol, which is used to express, convert, and execute intents. Developers can create intent applications through it, and the intents expressed by users will be submitted to the solver network for on-chain execution.

In this ecosystem, developers can focus on creating problem-solving solutions while providing the best experience for users. By combining the Intent Fusion Protocol with Particle's mature chain abstraction, modular smart WaaS, and cross-chain atomic swap solutions, Web2 developers can more easily leverage the unique features of Web3 to provide users with a simple interaction experience.

Essential

Essential claims to be the first "declarative blockchain", but it still revolves around the concept of "intent". The project believes that since the birth of Ethereum, every general-purpose blockchain has used an imperative programming model, where users can only interact with the blockchain through imperative commands such as transactions and smart contracts (. This has led to issues such as uncertain outcomes, failed transactions, MEV, and high slippage.

Essential's "declarative blockchain" allows users to sign expected transactions with desired ) declarative ( results rather than ) mandatory ( instructions. Its tech stack includes three core pillars: non-executing blockchain, constraint-based domain-specific language ) DSL (, and solver network.

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) Self Chain

Self Chain is a modular, intent-centric blockchain based on the Cosmos SDK. It integrates the concept of intent into the blockchain architecture through a three-layer structure: dApps layer, intent access layer, and intent resolver.

At the dApps layer, users interact with dApps through a simplified interface, and the system collects user intentions and translates them into structured intentions using large language models similar to GPT-4. The intention access layer searches for various paths to fulfill user intentions and finds the best approach. Finally, the intention resolver efficiently executes transactions.

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) Orb Stack and Orby

Orb Labs is developing a modular cross-chain intent protocol stack called Orb Stack, which allows users to issue cross-domain intents. The stack consists of 5 layers, including a scalable light client, messaging framework, token wrapping protocol, cross-domain intent protocol, and unified account system.

In addition, the development team is also working on the intent engine Orby, which can be integrated into any dApp frontend or wallet, allowing users to interact with any dApp on the chain without having to disperse assets across various chain addresses. Orby's goal is to support multi-chain interactions and convert transactions into intents that can be executed on any chain through the Orb Stack.

Orbiter Finance

As a leading Layer 2 cross-chain protocol, Orbiter Finance has announced the launch of the ZK-based Orbiter Rollup, which will serve as the intent layer for Ethereum, primarily used to aggregate users' cross-chain intents. Orbiter Rollup will solve execution problems, allowing users to achieve their desired outcomes without the need to sequentially execute cross-chain operations.

Across v3

The cross-chain protocol Across has added a composable intent engine in its latest V3 version, which includes intent-based RFQ order flows, a third-party solver network with off-chain liquidity, and a settlement system with Optimistic verification.

Aperture Finance

Aperture Finance is a DeFi platform based on intent architecture that combines AI with intent to build a chatbot. Users can express their intentions in natural language and obtain results using a solver network. This is a typical application of AI + Intent, where AI text interaction identifies user intentions and submits them to the solver network to seek optimal solutions.

In addition to trading, Aperture can also be used to automatically claim airdrops. The system can search for airdrop projects on various chains and automatically complete the claims based on the user's wallet address and authorization, significantly saving time and reducing risk.

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