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In 2024, there was a significant surge in on-chain activity, indicating impressive growth in user interest. However, blockchain technology continues to face challenges such as crowding, fragmentation and centralization of layer 2 solutions. Following Donald Trump’s inauguration, with the prospect of positive regulations and increased institutional benefits, it is essential that they are ready for future adoption to address these challenges.
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It has been highlighted recently 2025 Encryption With Messari, intention-centric approaches have emerged as important evolutionary changes that play a pivotal role in improving user accessibility and efficiency.
Understanding intention-centered infrastructure
The intent is a declaration tool that works in a distributed peer-to-peer network and locates and meets counterparties. Users can state the desired results without having to explain how to obtain those results. This simplifies interaction, providing a similar experience to Web2 applications such as Uber, and offers the advantages of AI automation without the associated centralization and privacy concerns. In fact, intention is an important primitive source for unlocking the true potential of AI, and has already made strong adoption in a variety of AI use cases.
Intention-centric Defi allows users to define complex goals, such as trading one Ethereum (ETH) at the highest rate in a specified time frame without manually setting parameters such as routing or gas prices. The system handles complex details such as identifying the optimal liquidity pool, ensuring the optimal rate, and determining the most efficient execution path. This goal-oriented, automated approach is a massive upgrade to the user experience.
Intention-centric infrastructure improves scalability and reduces congestion in networks such as Ethereum, as most computation and data storage occurs at the user’s edge devices. In 2024, rising transaction fees led many users to abandon operations on the chain, underscoring the need for scalable solutions that reduce costs and improve interaction with the blockchain. Furthermore, generalized intent can address the fragmentation of multichine landscapes, allowing applications to work seamlessly over different networks. Users can simply state the desired outcome without having to navigate the complexities of various chains and protocols.
Intent unleashes the next wave of DAPP innovation
Today’s users interact with a wide range of applications, from social media platforms to online marketplaces. Web3 applications built entirely on distributed infrastructure represent just a small part of this. This is primarily due to limitations on current generation blockchain infrastructure, with DAPPs being built on virtual machines that require step-by-step instructions. Virtual machines cannot run complex applications like Uber, Discord, or Tinder, so if they compete with Web2 innovation, a new approach is needed.
Generalized intent provides a solution. They allow for a new wave of Dapps that is true to the spirit of Web3, yet still fits, and even surpasses Web2’s refinement and UX. Imagine a completely distributed discrepancy with complex permissions, privacy, and interoperability across different security domains and UIs. In the Uber example, you can use generalized intent to create a single app that aggregates all your service providers into one UI. So users don’t need to switch between different ride apps to find the fastest or cheapest way between points A and B.
In the case of Defi, the generalized intent is a powerful new primitive that helps the industry develop new applications and eliminate reliance on centralized infrastructure. The fully decentralized multidimensional order book Dexs is just one promising example. Traditional Order Book Dexs relies on centralized infrastructure for counterparty discovery, allowing transactions only based on one dimension. Using generalized intent opens the door to much more complex possibilities by trading based on additional dimensions such as time preferences and opportunity to surrender. Above all, you can do that in a completely decentralized way.
Industry next steps
If you really want to have Web2 users on Web3, you need to match the intuition and ease of use that people are used to. In fact, users don’t even need to know that they are using a Web3 application. By enabling simple and automated experiences, built-in cryptographic rails, privacy, user control over data, full decentralization and interoperability, Web3 can not only surpass, but surpass, Web2’s promises.
Generalized intent is uniquely equipped to achieve this future. By blurring the line between Web2 and Web3 and allowing users to focus on the outcome they want to achieve, the intention provides a promising path to advance. Most importantly, space can compete with Web2’s ease of use without sacrificing the core doctrines of decentralization, resilience, verifiability, and user sovereignty.
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Adrian Brink
Adrian Brink He is the co-founder of ANOMA, an intentional, central operating system that allows users of distributed apps to define the desired outcomes. ANOMA is the only solution available today, offering a generalized (not DAPP-specific) intention-based operating system. Adrian is a member of the ANOMA Foundation Council and co-founded and expanded Cryptium Labs, an infrastructure operator that provides POS verification on Swiss Alps, while simultaneously building Metastate, an R&D company that upgraded over $4 billion in Layer-1 protocols. Previously, Adrian was the third core protocol engineer working on building a Cosmos stack at Tendermint.
