Exploring Intent-Centric Ecosystem: Which Projects to Follow?

A new user interaction model is emerging in the Web3 space - Intent-Centric. Users only need to express their needs to get results, without worrying about the complex implementation process. This model greatly enhances user experience, composability, and privacy.

The core of Intent-Centric lies in simplifying the user experience, emphasizing "goals and outcomes" rather than "processes." It enables a higher degree of protocol compatibility and fosters a richer ecosystem. Meanwhile, users can avoid disclosing personal details by simply expressing their intentions.

In Web2, we have become accustomed to various smooth operating experiences. However, in Web3, even the simplest operations require cumbersome steps, which has become one of the major obstacles to widespread adoption. The emergence of Intent-Centric is precisely to address this issue, promoting the popularization of Web3 alongside technologies such as account abstraction, TGBot, and MPC wallets.

Infrastructure Related to Intent

Account Abstraction

Account abstraction allows users to utilize more specific smart accounts. The ERC-4337 standard implements smart accounts, offering various login methods and features such as social recovery, thus lowering the threshold for new users. The bundled transactions and Gas payment features of smart accounts also contribute to achieving Intent-Centric solutions. Current leading account abstraction wallet projects include Safe Wallet, Biconomy, ZeroDev, Argent, and others.

AI

Integrating AIGC technology in wallets, users express intentions through conversations, which may be the ultimate form of Intent-Centric. AI is also an effective tool for deciphering user intentions. The award-winning projects Bob the Solver and Particle Network from ETHGlobal Paris Hackathon are both exploring this direction.

MEV

MEV (Miner Extractable Value) is a long-term challenge for DeFi. In the Intent-Centric model, transaction execution needs to be outsourced to solvers, so the MEV problem requires focused attention. Currently, projects like Essential and Flashbot SUAVE are trying to address this issue.

other infrastructure

• Juvix: A programming language designed by Anoma that facilitates the development of application logic containing public, secret, and encrypted data.
• Bob the Solver: Combines AI solver and account abstraction wallet to interpret user intentions and execute the best path.
• OKcontract: Create the "Low-level Intent" standard to simplify the difficulty for developers to integrate transactions into applications.
• Delegatable: A tool for implementing universal delegation on Ethereum, allowing users to delegate others to perform operations on their behalf.

DApp for Specific Intent

Many existing DeFi applications have already embodied the Intent-Centric concept to some extent:

• Aggregators like 1inch and Blur help users automatically find the best trading routes.
• Unibot and other TGBots simplify complex on-chain operations into chat options.
• CoWSwap, 1inch Fusion, UniswapX, etc. optimize trading experience through off-chain matching.
• Seaport, as a decentralized alternative to Opensea, enables gasless ordering.
• Symmio and BASED Markets offer intention-based on-chain peer-to-peer derivatives trading.
• BananaHq builds intelligent wallets using various technologies to lower the barriers for new users.

General Solutions

Some projects are creating more universal solutions for Intent-Centric:

Anoma

Anoma is a public chain focused on Intent-Centric and privacy protection, supporting the discovery, parsing, and multi-chain settlement of complex intents. Its core workflow includes steps such as users sending intents, solvers matching intents, and validators processing transactions. The technical core of Anoma includes several components such as Taiga, Typhon, MASP, Vamp-IR, and Juvix.

Essential

Essential is creating a standard for expressing intentions, developing an intent-oriented account abstraction standard, and building a new Intent-Centric blockchain.

dappOS

dappOS is the first Web3 operating protocol, providing multi-chain smart accounts and a solver network. Users can manage multi-chain assets and conduct complex transactions just like using regular apps. dappOS has integrated several leading DApps, such as Perpetual Protocol, Benqi, QuickSwap, and others.

Particle Network

Particle Network has upgraded to version V2 based on its MPC+ account abstraction wallet, building a solver network and integrating AIGC. Users can directly express intents to the AI, and the system will automatically calculate the best execution path from hundreds of DApps.

These projects promote the development of Intent-Centric in different ways. dappOS and Particle Network are committed to simplifying the user experience of existing DApps, while Anoma and Essential focus on building entirely new infrastructure. As these solutions mature, Web3 is expected to usher in a new wave of application explosion.