What exactly is Paradigm's number one focus "intent-centric"

Author: Daily Planet

On the evening of July 25th, Paradigm, a top Crypto venture capital institution, published an article “Collaborate with Paradigm” on its official website.

In the article, Paradigm introduced ten potential trends that the agency is currently focusing on in the field of Crypto, the first of which is “intent-centric (intent-centric) protocols and infrastructure.”

When it comes to intent-centric, some readers may still be a little unfamiliar with the concept, but in fact, the concept has sparked extensive discussions at EthCC and its surrounding activities in the past week, and some people even called out “this is Web 3 s future”. **

At the ETHGlobal Paris themed hackathon that ended on July 23, a project named Bob the Solver was selected as a finalist for its concrete development of intent-centric. We can just take a brief look at the so-called intent through this project What exactly does -centric refer to.

The idea of Bob the Solver stems from an emerging paradigm shift in the field of account abstraction,** whose core focus is not to focus on the precise “transaction” process, but on the user’s ultimate “intent”. **

Under the narrative logic of the project, **“intent” represents the desired outcome of the user, while “transaction” contains the precise steps required to achieve that outcome. **For example, a user plans to purchase an NFT on the Polygon network. This is his “intention”, which is very simple and easy to understand, but the corresponding “transaction” may involve currency exchange, cross-chain, purchase, etc. A series of complex and time-consuming operations on the chain have certain requirements for blockchain-related knowledge and literacy.

In Bob the Solver’s view, Usually users only have “intent” requirements, but not precise details of “transactions”, so this project can accept users’ “intentions” and automatically formulate appropriate transactions, and execute them on behalf of the user. Ultimately, Bob the Solver hopes to simplify the whole process of on-chain interaction, so that more users who don’t know much about blockchain can participate in the wave of Web 3.

Coincidentally, Anoma, which has just completed a financing of 25 million US dollars, also frequently speaks about intent-centric on EthCC. The two co-founders of the project, Arian Brink and Christopher Goes, both gave speeches to share the development status of intent-centric.

Christopher Goes’ talk on intent-centric rollups.

Similar to Bob the Solver, Arian Brink shared that Anoma supports an “intent”-centric architecture specification, in which users need to initiate “intentions” rather than “transactions”. Specifically, users only need to specify the state changes they want to achieve, without worrying about the specific implementation.

In Anoma’s view, “intent” can be customized, and its content can also be very complex, so it can achieve better expression of user needs, and finally radiate new application possibilities.

In addition to Bob the Solver and Anoma, there are other projects currently on the market that are being developed around intent-centric, such as Essential, which just debuted on July 18.

Essential’s main focus is to cut some of the squeeze out of the “transaction” process (like MEV) in order to return the most desirable “intent” results to the user.

In Essential’s view, when a user initiates a “transaction”, each participant in each link of the transaction chain will act in accordance with his own interests and benefit from it, which reduces the final value received by the user.

Therefore, Essential hopes to build an “intent”-based blockchain system and introduce a solver (Solver) role, which will be responsible for collecting users’ “intent” requirements in batches and finding the best solution to maximize Return results that meet the “intent” to the user.

All in all, there are not a few projects currently being developed around the intent-centric concept. Although the vision of each project is different (for example, Bob the Solver hopes to attract more users, Anoma hopes to help users achieve better expression of needs, and Essential focuses on reducing squeeze behavior), but they all take the same path, that is, hope By replacing “transaction” with “intent”, it will completely change the interaction paradigm of the current on-chain ecology.

With Paradigm’s “shouting”, relying on the influence of the organization in the industry, there will inevitably be more intent-centric projects emerging in the future, and perhaps this will also push Crypto to the next round of peaks A seed.