Anoma: an intent-centric

Traditional blockchain platforms are imperative, designed around transactions: state transitions which are ordered and executed. By contrast, the Anoma architecture is declarative, designed around intents and validity predicates: ephemeral and enduring preference functions over possible states which describe which states of the system actors prefer. Anoma’s fractal instance architecture partitions a single logical state across separate operational security zones, allowing users to interact with each other where they share trust assumptions and isolate themselves from faults elsewhere in the network graph. Vertical integration of the two phases of counterparty discovery and settlement allows the protocol to provide end-to-end privacy, safety, and liveness guarantees. In this talk, I will outline the Anoma architecture, provide an intuition for the design rationale, and describe how Anoma disentangles the choices of protocol and security, including how you could use Anoma and settle on Ethereum, use Anoma and settle on your own sovereign chain, and use Anoma to settle on multiple chains atomically.