Anoma is now live on Base, making native intents, programmable privacy, and interoperability available to Base’s <a href="https://defillama.com/chain/base?tvl=false&activeAddresses=true&ref=blog.anoma.net">1M+ daily active users</a> and <a href="https://dappradar.com/chain/base?ref=blog.anoma.net" rel="noreferrer">1000+ apps</a>. This integration enables builders to create more seamless, intuitive experiences for their users via Anoma intents, with built-in support for opt-in, compliant privacy protections.You can view the onchain deployment of the Anoma Protocol Adapter on Base <a href="https://basescan.org/address/0x6d0A05E3535bd4D2C32AaD37FFB28fd0E1e528c3?ref=blog.anoma.net#code">here</a>.Anoma is the distributed operating system (DOS) unlocking native intents and programmable privacy for any chain. It connects and unifies existing blockchains into a single interface for developers and users to interact with, and enables a new way to build applications based on users’ goals and preferences (intents). Anoma is designed to make decentralized applications accessible to the widest possible group of users. By abstracting the complexity of onchain infrastructure, Anoma enables builders to focus on product-market fit and providing user experiences that meet or exceed the ease-of-use of conventional offchain applications. Base is a secure, low-cost, builder-friendly Ethereum L2 designed to help bring a billion users and a million developers onchain with an ecosystem of onchain applications.&nbsp;Anoma shares Base’s vision of making a decentralized future more accessible to everyone, everywhere. With this deployment, Anoma provides builders on Base with even more tools to make that future a reality. It also allows upcoming Anoma applications, such as <a href="http://x.com/anomapay?ref=blog.anoma.net">AnomaPay</a>, to work seamlessly on Base.<h2 id="the-arm-on-base">The ARM on Base</h2>With the launch of Anoma on Base, builders can now leverage the capabilities of the <a href="https://anoma.net/blog/introducing-the-arm?ref=blog.anoma.net">Anoma Resource Machine</a> (ARM) for Base applications. The ARM is a virtual machine, similar to the EVM, but which enables builders to create applications with native intents and programmable privacy.Intents enable simpler, more intuitive user experiences where you can express your desired outcome, without needing to worry about the technical steps necessary to make it happen. This enables more user-friendly applications, including automated experiences like AI agents and chatbots. With the ARM’s programmable privacy features, Base builders can leverage opt-in, compliant privacy protections with fine-grained control over data disclosure. This means apps can allow users to share specific data with specific parties for specific purposes, for example for auditing or compliance needs. The ARM unlocks a degree of data permissioning previously only available in the offchain world.&nbsp;With these powerful tools now available on Base, we’re one step closer to making the decentralized future accessible to everyone, everywhere. Stay tuned for the launch of the first Anoma applications on Base, including AnomaPay, which will demonstrate the power of Anoma for seamless private payments.

Anoma is Now Live on Base

After a successful deployment of the first Anoma Protocol Adapter (PA) to Ethereum mainnet recently, the Anoma Distributed Operating System (DOS) was successfully installed on its second blockchain today: <a href="https://arbitrum.io/?ref=blog.anoma.net">Arbitrum</a>.&nbsp;You can view the onchain deployment of the Anoma Protocol Adapter on Arbitrum <a href="https://arbiscan.io/address/0x6d0a05e3535bd4d2c32aad37ffb28fd0e1e528c3?ref=blog.anoma.net#code" rel="noreferrer">here</a>.Abitrum developers can now leverage the Anoma Resource Machine (ARM) to build applications with native intents and programmable privacy, with full EVM interoperability. This deployment also allows the upcoming Anoma applications, such as <a href="https://anoma.money/?ref=blog.anoma.net">AnomaPay</a>, to work seamlessly on Arbitrum.<h2 id="unleashing-the-arm-on-arb">Unleashing the ARM on ARB</h2>The ARM is a virtual machine that implements Anoma’s state and execution model on existing blockchains, and is roughly to Anoma as the EVM is to Ethereum.With an Anoma PA deployment, blockchains can offer the benefits of the ARM to their builders and users without needing to make any changes to their existing infrastructure. It’s a fast and efficient way to add native intents and best-in-class privacy protections to any existing chain.&nbsp;The ARM introduces a new state model called the Resource Model. Neither UTXO nor account model-based, the Resource Model combines the best of both models.Dive deeper into the ARM:<ul><li><a href="https://anoma.net/blog/introducing-the-arm?ref=blog.anoma.net">Introducing the ARM</a></li><li><a href="https://github.com/anoma/evm-protocol-adapter?ref=blog.anoma.net">Implementation of the EVM PA</a></li><li><a href="https://zenodo.org/records/10689620?ref=blog.anoma.net">ARM Technical Specifications</a></li></ul><h1 id="what%E2%80%99s-next">What’s next?</h1>The deployment of the Anoma PA on Arbitrum marks the next of many installations of the Anoma DOS, including but not limited to Ethereum L2s, stablecoin chains, and more – setting the foundation for Anoma applications to run seamlessly everywhere.As Anoma is integrated across the Ethereum ecosystem, the full benefits of its Distributed Operating System will take shape. The Anoma DOS abstracts away the complexities of the multichain landscape, providing a unified interface for developers to build on and unlocking a seamless, unified experience for users.

Anoma is Now Live on Arbitrum

The wait is over! XAN is now live and Anoma’s mainnet rollout has begun. Today’s launch introduces Anoma’s native <a href="https://docs.anoma.foundation/tokenomics?ref=blog.anoma.net">XAN token</a> and governance system, which are now live on Ethereum mainnet. The coordination mechanism for the Anoma ecosystem, XAN will power activity across existing Web3 networks, ‘real-world’ applications, and Anoma native instances. As the first phase of mainnet functionality to go live, XAN and Anoma governance enable the community to coordinate all future mainnet upgrades.&nbsp;This marks the beginning of Anoma’s mainnet rollout, which will proceed through a series of protocol upgrades that sequentially unleash the power of Anoma’s decentralized operating system, starting with a mainnet beta phase.&nbsp;Anoma is not another L1 or L2 blockchain. It’s a higher level of abstraction that shifts innovation upward to the application layer. It’s the operating system that unifies all chains into one seamless environment for developers and users to interact with.Anoma is not an incremental improvement over existing technology. It’s a complete overhaul of how blockchains, dapps, and decentralized systems work. Based on novel research, Anoma redesigns Web3 from the ground-up to make it as user-friendly, composable, scalable, and flexible as possible. It will be the most significant upgrade for decentralized applications since the launch of the Ethereum Virtual Machine. This is an expansive, long-term vision that will take time to unfold. Beginning today with the deployment of Anoma’s XAN token and governance system to Ethereum, Anoma will take shape gradually over a series of upgrades, with more powerful functionality and support for additional blockchains and ecosystems rolling out over time. After Ethereum mainnet, Anoma will add support for key Ethereum L2s before expanding to other ecosystems.&nbsp;<h2 id="the-ticker-is-xan">The ticker is XAN</h2><figure class="kg-card kg-image-card kg-card-hascaption"><img src="https://blog.anoma.net/content/images/2025/09/Slide-16_9---8--3-.jpg" class="kg-image" alt="" loading="lazy" width="1920" height="1080" srcset="https://blog.anoma.net/content/images/size/w600/2025/09/Slide-16_9---8--3-.jpg 600w, https://blog.anoma.net/content/images/size/w1000/2025/09/Slide-16_9---8--3-.jpg 1000w, https://blog.anoma.net/content/images/size/w1600/2025/09/Slide-16_9---8--3-.jpg 1600w, https://blog.anoma.net/content/images/2025/09/Slide-16_9---8--3-.jpg 1920w" sizes="(min-width: 720px) 720px"><figcaption>XAN is Anoma's native token and the coordination mechanism for the Anoma ecosystem.</figcaption></figure>XAN will serve as the global coordination mechanism for the entire Anoma ecosystem. This means XAN will power network activities and economic flows across Web3 and ‘real world’ applications, no matter where Anoma is deployed: from existing networks like Ethereum, Bitcoin, and Solana, to Anoma-native fractal instances and on-demand local consensus between mobile phones or other devices.Starting today, XAN can be used for payments, fees, and to participate in Anoma’s governance system. Future phases of mainnet may include additional XAN functionality. XAN holders can use Anoma Portal or any ERC-20 compatible wallet to manage their tokens.<h2 id="anoma-governance-explained">Anoma governance explained</h2>The initial version of Anoma’s governance system, launched today, enables XAN holders to lock up tokens to vote on protocol upgrade proposals. The system features two governance bodies that can propose upgrades: the ‘voter body’ of token holders, and a governance council, which act as counter balances to each other. The governance council can propose upgrades when the voter body hasn’t reached quorum, and the voter body can veto proposals initiated by the council. This creates a system of checks and balances that prevents either body from acting unilaterally.The weight of a token holder’s vote is proportional to the amount of tokens they choose to lock, ensuring long-term alignment with the protocol’s success. Tokens locked for voting can be unlocked following the proposal’s enactment. Like Anoma mainnet in general, Anoma’s governance system will evolve over time to include additional functionality for the ecosystem and community.<h2 id="introducing-anoma-portal">Introducing Anoma Portal</h2><figure class="kg-card kg-image-card kg-card-hascaption"><img src="https://blog.anoma.net/content/images/2025/09/CEX.png" class="kg-image" alt="" loading="lazy" width="2000" height="1125" srcset="https://blog.anoma.net/content/images/size/w600/2025/09/CEX.png 600w, https://blog.anoma.net/content/images/size/w1000/2025/09/CEX.png 1000w, https://blog.anoma.net/content/images/size/w1600/2025/09/CEX.png 1600w, https://blog.anoma.net/content/images/size/w2400/2025/09/CEX.png 2400w" sizes="(min-width: 720px) 720px"><figcaption>Anoma Portal is your gateway to the Anoma ecosystem and all protocol functions</figcaption></figure><a href="http://portal.anoma.net/?ref=blog.anoma.net">Anoma Portal</a> is an Anoma-native application that will serve as the gateway to the Anoma ecosystem and all major protocol functions. Starting today, Anoma Portal can be used to view and manage XAN balances, and to participate in governance.&nbsp;The verion of Anoma Portal launched today is v1, but new features and capabilities will be added to Anoma Portal over time as mainnet upgrades unfold. Ultimately the goal is for Anoma Portal to evolve into Anoma’s Web3-native super app. It will also serve as a place to discover and use Anoma applications as they go live. Anoma Portal is compatible with any Ethereum wallet, including Metamask, Phantom, Coinbase Wallet, and Rabby Wallet for transaction signing.<h2 id="onward-and-upward">Onward and upward.</h2>Today marks the start of a huge leap forward for crypto. Soon developers and users will no longer be forced to deal with the complexities of blockchain infrastructure. As mainnet unfolds, Anoma will provide a seamless experience across Web3 and enable the types of applications that can finally compete with Web2.&nbsp;&nbsp;It’s time to aim higher. Upward.<hr><figure class="kg-card kg-image-card kg-card-hascaption"><img src="https://blog.anoma.net/content/images/2025/09/Claim-OG.jpg" class="kg-image" alt="" loading="lazy" width="1201" height="630" srcset="https://blog.anoma.net/content/images/size/w600/2025/09/Claim-OG.jpg 600w, https://blog.anoma.net/content/images/size/w1000/2025/09/Claim-OG.jpg 1000w, https://blog.anoma.net/content/images/2025/09/Claim-OG.jpg 1201w" sizes="(min-width: 720px) 720px"><figcaption>Airdrop claims are live at claim.anoma.foundation until Sunday, Oct. 5th at 9:00am UTC.</figcaption></figure>Those eligible for season 1 of the Anoma airdrop can now claim their XAN! But this is just the beginning.<a href="https://x.com/anoma/status/1968705332403708180?ref=blog.anoma.net">Season 2</a> is coming soon and it will be bigger and better, with new ways to be rewarded for yappers, Discord mages, Shrimpers NFT holders, and app testers. True legacies are built over time, so greater rewards are reserved for community members who continue contributing past TGE and demonstrate long-term support for Anoma’s mission.Season 1 claims are open at <a href="https://claim.anoma.foundation/?ref=blog.anoma.net">claim.anoma.foundation</a> until Sunday, October 5th at 09:00am UTC. More info on season 2 to come. Always make sure you are using the correct URL and do not trust any other links. More information on the <a href="https://x.com/anoma/status/1968705332403708180?ref=blog.anoma.net">season 2</a> airdrop to come.

XAN is Live!

The time has come. You memed, yapped, biked, garaponed, shrimp farmed, meme machined, and climbed the ranks of the Anomages – intentsly. Your time has come to register for season 1 of the XAN Airdrop.You helped Anoma build a community, spread awareness, and climb to the top of the Kaito leaderboard. Anoma ranked #1 on Kaito during the first 30 days of the campaign and continues to be among the top! Demand for testnet codes was overwhelming and participation there was astronomical. Anoma’s Discord community has grown by leaps and bounds, and continues to grow, with a wide cast of roles and fun activities. Thank you to everyone who helped make Anoma one of the most recognizable communities in Web3.Together we have gone far, but the real show is about to begin with XAN TGE and Anoma mainnet rollout. With this in mind, the Anoma airdrop will incentivize not just past participation, but future growth and continued community engagement as Anoma’s core technology begins to take shape.&nbsp;<h2 id="who%E2%80%99s-eligible">Who’s eligible?</h2>Kaito yappers and stakers Yappers will be rewarded based on their ranking on the Anoma Kaito leaderboard. The Kaito portion of the airdrop will continue over multiple seasons. Yappers and stakers should register with the X account used for Kaito to qualify.&nbsp;Discord Anomages Members of Anoma’s Discord community will be rewarded based on their role rank and level of activity on the server. Discord members should register with the Discord account used in the Anoma server to qualify.Testnet champions Testnet participants will be rewarded based on their testnet rank. Testnet participants should register with the wallet address used to sign up for the testnet to qualify.&nbsp;Shrimpers NFT holders <a href="https://x.com/shrimpers_nft?ref=blog.anoma.net">Shrimpers</a> community members will be rewarded in season 2 of the airdrop, with a bonus for those who held their NFTs from the mint to the airdrop season 2 snapshot.<h2 id="airdrop-details">Airdrop details</h2>Anoma Foundation is allocating a total of 10% of the total XAN supply for airdrops. Registration is now open for season 1, with additional seasons to follow in the future. Registration for season 1 is open now and closes on Monday, September 22nd 2025 at 23:59 UTC. Season 1 airdrop claims will open at TGE.Additional seasons may reward additional community groups and forms of engagement than season 1. Those who didn’t qualify for season 1, as well as those who want to continue to qualify in future seasons, are encouraged to continue spreading the word about Anoma and building out the community.The airdrop will incentivize long-term alignment and continued engagement past TGE. This is important to ensure long-term community members are rewarded over short-term speculators.&nbsp;While Anoma’s mainnet rollout will begin soon, the full vision will take time to unfold. Anoma aims to fundamentally change the way we use and build blockchain applications. The mission-aligned real ones who are here to help bring this vision to life are those who will be rewarded the most.&nbsp;For a full breakdown of XAN tokenomics, <a href="https://docs.anoma.foundation/tokenomics?ref=blog.anoma.net">see here</a>. XAN holders will be able to use XAN on Anoma mainnet for payments, governance, fees and more. The airdrop aims to cultivate active stakeholders in the future of Anoma and a better future for Web3 applications.This is just the beginning. New opportunities await in future airdrop seasons. Together we will usher in a new age of applications.&nbsp;Upward.<hr>Check your eligibility and register by Monday, September 22nd, 2025 at 23:59 UTC here: <a href="https://register.anoma.foundation/?ref=blog.anoma.net" rel="noreferrer">register.anoma.foundation</a>Be sure to verify the above URL to avoid phishing scams. This is the ONLY URL you can use to participate in the airdrop. This site will never ask you to submit any&nbsp;seed phrase,&nbsp;private key&nbsp;or&nbsp;to transfer any tokens&nbsp;from any wallet to participate. Nobody from the Anoma team will ever ask you for your private key, your seed phrase, or to send funds in order to participate in the airdrop.

Anoma XAN Airdrop: Registration is Now Open

The ability to pay anyone, anywhere across the globe in a secure, seamless way with stablecoins has long been a holy grail use case for blockchain technology. But the capabilities of blockchain infrastructure have not kept up with the latent demand for user-friendly payments applications. Fragmentation, poor UX, and the lack of protection for sensitive financial data have limited the feasibility of using stablecoins for seamless global payment routing.&nbsp;Users, businesses, and institutions are forced to deal with a choice between slow fiat payment rails and fragmented blockchains with no protection for sensitive financial data. The friction involved in sending payments when multiple blockchains are involved and different users have different preferred tokens is a non-starter for widescale adoption, as is exposing confidential financial information to public payment rails.&nbsp;<h2 id="introducing-anomapay">Introducing AnomaPay</h2><a href="https://anoma.money/?ref=blog.anoma.net">AnomaPay</a> is a global stablecoin router and enterprise-grade payments network built on Anoma. Developed by Heliax, AnomaPay provides the connective tissue and cryptographic protection necessary for secure global exchange of value while protecting sensitive financial data. AnomaPay will serve existing blockchains, stablecoin providers, institutional service providers, businesses and stablecoin users alike.&nbsp;AnomaPay is launching in partnership with <a href="http://noble.xyz/?ref=blog.anoma.net">Noble</a>, the Paradigm-backed stablecoin issuer boasting more than $20B in total stablecoin volume across USDC and USDN. Noble will integrate AnomaPay’s stablecoin routing network to provide opt-in access to best-in-class confidential global payments.&nbsp;In a few simple steps, users will be able to securely send payments in their preferred token, which AnomaPay converts to the recipient's token of choice. AnomaPay acts as an intelligent router, directing stablecoin transactions through the most efficient and secure pathways and breaking down geographical barriers. Starting with EVM compatibility, AnomaPay will enable payments in top-tier stablecoins and Ethereum-compatible tokens, including ETH, USDC and USDT.AnomaPay is also designed to support third-party applications and service providers. Leveraging Anoma’s distributed operating system for cross-chain composability, AnomaPay enables applications to span many different providers to provide a unified global experience for their users.&nbsp;AnomaPay provides:<ul><li>Enterprise-grade data protection: Opt-in to send payments without broadcasting sensitive financial information</li><li>Fast transactions: Efficient ZK proving brings fast transactions that will only get faster over time</li><li>Simple, intuitive UX: Anoma abstracts the complexity of multichain infrastructure for transactions in the fewest steps possible</li><li>Fee payment in any supported token: No need to hold volatile tokens just to pay fees</li><li>Multichain support: AnomaPay can support any chain where the Anoma protocol adapter is deployed</li></ul>AnomaPay is currently under development on the Anoma devnet, and is open for additional partnerships with institutions and payment providers. Interested providers can get in touch with the team <a href="https://form.jotform.com/252256410264046?ref=blog.anoma.net">here</a>. Get ready for seamless, confidential payments on Ethereum and beyond. AnomaPay unlocks the efficiency and data protection needed to exchange value around the globe with confidence.&nbsp;It’s time to pay on your terms with AnomaPay. <a href="https://x.com/anomapay?ref=blog.anoma.net" rel="noreferrer">Follow AnomaPay on X</a> for the latest updates.

Introducing AnomaPay: A Secure, Global Stablecoin Router and Payments Network

The crypto and Web3 space has seen a never-ending rollout of new blockchains since Bitcoin was invented. From layer-1 and layer-2 networks to modular and app-specific chains, each new launch brings incremental improvements and new approaches to solve long-standing problems.&nbsp;But each new chain adds complexity that developers and users are forced to navigate. The result is a patchwork ecosystem of fragmented networks, applications, wallets, liquidity, and users. This trend toward fragmentation is a major barrier to developer and user adoption, and keeps the focus on infrastructure at the expense of applications.<figure class="kg-card kg-image-card kg-card-hascaption"><img src="https://blog.anoma.net/content/images/2025/06/image6.jpg" class="kg-image" alt="" loading="lazy" width="1999" height="1106" srcset="https://blog.anoma.net/content/images/size/w600/2025/06/image6.jpg 600w, https://blog.anoma.net/content/images/size/w1000/2025/06/image6.jpg 1000w, https://blog.anoma.net/content/images/size/w1600/2025/06/image6.jpg 1600w, https://blog.anoma.net/content/images/2025/06/image6.jpg 1999w" sizes="(min-width: 720px) 720px"><figcaption>The current status quo: complexity and fragmentation</figcaption></figure>With Web3 hype cycles measured in weeks, not months or years, the choice of which chain to deploy an app to brings huge risks. If a developer launches their app on chain X one day, and users and liquidity flock to chain Y the next, it means months of wasted development time and capital. It’s one big game of musical chairs. Teams are forced to make risky bets on which chain will win, or manage multiple deployments across different chains, creating extra development and maintenance overhead that puts them at a competitive disadvantage.For users, fragmentation is a nightmare for the experience of using blockchains. They’re forced to juggle multiple wallets, seed phrases, apps, chains, and bridges to do even relatively basic things. For anything involving multiple chains, users have to go down rabbit holes to find optimal routes, navigate complicated multi-step interactions, and sign a time-consuming series of transactions.What if there was a better way to build and use Web3 applications?<h2 id="introducing-web3%E2%80%99s-os">Introducing Web3’s OS</h2>Anoma is a decentralized operating system that unifies the fragmented Web3 landscape into a single, cohesive environment. Anoma will connect existing blockchains across ecosystems like Ethereum, Solana, and more. But what does an operating system mean in the context of Web3?&nbsp;Let’s look at the example of Windows and what it did to revolutionize the way people interact with and develop applications for PCs. Windows unified the PC environment, creating a single cohesive interface that users and developers could interact with regardless of the underlying hardware. No matter which type of CPU a computer was built on, users could get the same familiar experience, and developers could write a single application that could work on many different types of computers. This kicked off the personal computing era, making PCs accessible enough to become a household device.&nbsp;Yet Web3 is still stuck in the pre-Windows era. If Web3 networks are like decentralized ‘world computers’, blockchains represent the underlying CPUs that handle all the ‘processing’. Today, developers are still stuck writing applications for specific blockchains, and users are forced to interact directly with complex low-level infrastructure. This keeps Web3 stuck in an immature state, without the types of user-friendly applications needed to break through the transition into mainstream relevance.<figure class="kg-card kg-image-card kg-card-hascaption"><img src="https://blog.anoma.net/content/images/2025/06/Web3-landscape_V2.5.jpg" class="kg-image" alt="" loading="lazy" width="2000" height="1125" srcset="https://blog.anoma.net/content/images/size/w600/2025/06/Web3-landscape_V2.5.jpg 600w, https://blog.anoma.net/content/images/size/w1000/2025/06/Web3-landscape_V2.5.jpg 1000w, https://blog.anoma.net/content/images/size/w1600/2025/06/Web3-landscape_V2.5.jpg 1600w, https://blog.anoma.net/content/images/size/w2400/2025/06/Web3-landscape_V2.5.jpg 2400w" sizes="(min-width: 720px) 720px"><figcaption>Anoma OS unifies Web3 into a single cohesive system</figcaption></figure>Akin to Windows for Web3, Anoma introduces a new approach to dapp development. It enables developers to build one app that works seamlessly across any underlying blockchain, and to provide a seamless experience for their users, free from the complexity that exists today. Developers are no longer faced with the risky decision of deploying on a specific blockchain. With Anoma, their app is automatically compatible with any underlying chain, and they’re ready for the next big blockchain launch, whenever it happens.&nbsp;This unified approach can significantly speed up the time and reduce the cost of deploying a dapp, and eliminates the overhead of juggling multiple deployments across different chains. With Anoma, dapp teams are free to focus on what matters most: their application and their users, leaving the complexity of underlying infrastructure and multichain interoperability to Anoma.&nbsp;Anoma also provides the most flexible and adaptable development environment possible, enabling developers to build new types of applications that haven't been possible in Web3. This includes full-featured Web2-style applications like Uber or Kickstarter (but fully decentralized), and the types of automated experiences that users have come to expect from AI-powered applications. This means that Web3 won’t be left behind as users expect increasing ease of use and more natural interactions from the applications they use. Anoma is not yet another blockchain bringing incremental improvements to the existing paradigm. It’s a fundamentally new type of architecture optimized for application development and user experience, paving the way for Web3 to reach its full potential as the ‘world computer’.<h2 id="the-power-of-intents">The power of intents</h2>A key component of how Anoma provides a superior developer and user experience is by introducing a new paradigm of intent-centric application development.Intents are how humans naturally interact with applications. They’re the outcomes or goals that users want to achieve, along with any preferences or conditions for achieving those goals. A user opens an application because they want to trade X for Y at the best possible price, or to purchase a product that matches their specific needs and requirements. With Anoma, developers can write applications that process user intents into verifiable outcomes, a quantum leap forward in user and developer experience compared to what exists today.&nbsp;Intent-centric app development involves a shift from imperative to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Declarative_programming?ref=blog.anoma.net" rel="noreferrer">declarative programming</a>. With imperative programming, you need to write a series of step-by-step instructions for the computer to process. By contrast, with declarative programming you simply declare the end state you want to achieve without needing to specify how to achieve it. This approach saves time and improves the developer experience by minimizing unnecessary complexity. It’s the difference between needing to tell a chef every step involved in making your meal vs ordering the dish you want and letting the chef handle the preparation.While Web2 apps adopted intents and declarative programming long ago, the approach isn’t yet the standard in Web3. Indeed, the move from imperative to declarative programming (particularly the shift from jquery to react) is part of the secret sauce that led Web2 applications to take over the world. Because Web3 applications are tied to on-chain virtual machines (e.g. the EVM), which run on an imperative, transaction-centric model, dapp developers are still stuck writing step-by-step instructions.Not only is this an inefficient and inexpressive way to write applications, it forces users to understand and interact with the complexities of the underlying infrastructure. They have to figure out which wallets and UIs to use, evaluate bridges, judge the risks involved, and then approve an often complex series of transactions.<figure class="kg-card kg-image-card kg-card-hascaption"><img src="https://blog.anoma.net/content/images/2025/06/image3.jpg" class="kg-image" alt="" loading="lazy" width="1736" height="874" srcset="https://blog.anoma.net/content/images/size/w600/2025/06/image3.jpg 600w, https://blog.anoma.net/content/images/size/w1000/2025/06/image3.jpg 1000w, https://blog.anoma.net/content/images/size/w1600/2025/06/image3.jpg 1600w, https://blog.anoma.net/content/images/2025/06/image3.jpg 1736w" sizes="(min-width: 720px) 720px"><figcaption>Users communicate their intent, Anoma handles the complexity</figcaption></figure>With Anoma, users can simply communicate their desired outcome and let the system handle the complexity for them. No matter how complex an operation is or how many chains are involved, Anoma apps can provide a single, simple interaction for the user. Dapps can provide more seamless, automated experiences, comparable to those users have come to expect from LLMs and chatbots.&nbsp;Some Web3 protocols today are designed to process intents, but typically only involve specific use cases, such as cross-chain swaps. Anoma introduces the first system for processing generalized intents, that is, any type of intent that can be used for any type of application. Generalized intents are the key to building apps that can match the capabilities of Web2 without relying on any centralized components. <h2 id="how-does-it-work">How does it work?</h2>Anoma provides a level of abstraction that exists on top of underlying blockchains. This is similar to how an operating system provides a level of abstraction on top of computer CPUs that developers and users can interact with rather than needing to interact directly with the hardware. Anoma is designed around three basic layers: an application layer, a networking layer, and a settlement layer. <figure class="kg-card kg-image-card kg-card-hascaption"><img src="https://blog.anoma.net/content/images/2025/06/image1.jpg" class="kg-image" alt="" loading="lazy" width="1920" height="1836" srcset="https://blog.anoma.net/content/images/size/w600/2025/06/image1.jpg 600w, https://blog.anoma.net/content/images/size/w1000/2025/06/image1.jpg 1000w, https://blog.anoma.net/content/images/size/w1600/2025/06/image1.jpg 1600w, https://blog.anoma.net/content/images/2025/06/image1.jpg 1920w" sizes="(min-width: 720px) 720px"><figcaption>The 3 basic layers of Anoma OS</figcaption></figure>The application layer is where developers build applications and users interact with them. This is analogous to the UIs that we’re used to in Windows or MacOS. It includes a development interface for building intent-centric applications, powered not by a virtual machine (VM) and smart contracts, as in the case of conventional blockchains, but by an Anoma innovation called the intent machine (IM). While VMs work by processing transactions into state updates, the IM works by processing intents into state updates. The IM model is the key to bringing intent-centric applications to Web3.The networking layer is a decentralized peer-to-peer network made up of intent gossip nodes and solvers that run the Anoma software. When a user submits an intent to an app interface, gossip nodes broadcast it across peers in the network. Special nodes called solvers watch for these intents and solve them by carrying out the necessary operations and settling transactions on underlying blockchains. Solvers can be specialized in certain types of operations, or more generalized for a wider range of applications.<figure class="kg-card kg-image-card"><img src="https://blog.anoma.net/content/images/2025/06/image2.png" class="kg-image" alt="" loading="lazy" width="1999" height="1129" srcset="https://blog.anoma.net/content/images/size/w600/2025/06/image2.png 600w, https://blog.anoma.net/content/images/size/w1000/2025/06/image2.png 1000w, https://blog.anoma.net/content/images/size/w1600/2025/06/image2.png 1600w, https://blog.anoma.net/content/images/2025/06/image2.png 1999w" sizes="(min-width: 720px) 720px"></figure>The networking layer also handles counterparty discovery, the key to any type of application that involves multiple parties.&nbsp;For example, a decentralized token swap can involve two or more parties. Imagine Alice has token X that they want to trade for token Y, and Bob has token Y that they want to trade for token X. This creates a balanced transaction because the intents equal out. More likely, a swap can involve more than two parties: Alice wants to trade token W for token Z, Bob wants to trade token X for token Y, Cameron wants to trade token Y for token W, and Dave wants to trade token Z for token X. This is also a balanced transaction that solvers can solve.&nbsp;Generalized intents on Anoma are fully composable, which means developers can write applications that rely on interaction between multiple users and multiple operations across several blockchains, and solvers can combine intents from different users together to solve more complex operations.The only way to do counterparty discovery in Web3 today is by relying on centralized components like servers, or by putting the entire process on-chain, which is impractical in terms of efficiency and cost. With Anoma, intents can be arbitrarily complex, and the larger the pool of intents, the more ways that solvers can find to balance them. In his way, apps on Anoma can involve interactions between any number of users while maintaining full decentralization. This enables new types of applications that are impossible in Web3 today.Finally, the settlement layer is where intents are ultimately settled on underlying blockchains. This layer is essentially the motherboard of the world computer. Intents can be settled across any number of blockchains, from L1s and L2s to app-specific chains for file storage, data availability, oracles, and more. Anoma connects to existing blockchains and enables those networks to seamlessly operate with the broader Anoma system.<h2 id="powering-a-universal-app-layer-for-web3">Powering a universal app layer for Web3</h2>By introducing an intent-centric paradigm for blockchain architecture and application development, Anoma enables a universal application layer to serve all of Web3.&nbsp;In the current paradigm, the focus is still overwhelmingly on blockchains and blockchain infrastructure rather than on what applications actually need.&nbsp;But what if we could redesign blockchains from scratch to make them more user friendly and better suited for hosting applications? The good news is that we don’t have to. Anoma reexamines decentralized systems from a first-principles approach, to create a more application-centric and user-centric future for Web3. Best yet, Anoma is fully compatible with existing blockchains, so any chain can benefit from intents and developers can write one app with universal compatibility.Just as Web2 apps can work seamlessly and update state across every device a user owns, Anoma enables dapps to roam seamlessly across every blockchain a user has state on at once. This is the sort of experience users have come to expect, but it hasn’t existed in Web3 until now. Anoma bridges the gap between Web2 and Web3 applications and experiences, so Web3 can finally serve as the backbone of a new internet.&nbsp;The rigid focus on blockchains and VMs has failed to give us a rich application layer to compete with Web2, imposing unnecessary complexity on developers and users. Anoma is Web3 without the complexity, enabling the space to evolve beyond infrastructure so developers can finally focus on building apps, not chains.&nbsp;Because the future of crypto isn’t more infrastructure. It’s infrastructure you don’t even notice.

Build Apps, Not Chains: Introducing Web3’s OS

After a competitive application process, a first cohort of 15 intentsly innovative projects have been selected for the Intents Initiates program. These teams have demonstrated the vision, technical expertise, and commitment necessary to help build the intent-centric future of Web3.&nbsp;Following the <a href="https://anoma.net/blog/introducing-intents-initiates?ref=blog.anoma.net">program launch</a> last month, over 100 builder teams have worked on joining the Anoma ecosystem, making the first cohort of Intents Initiates incredibly competitive and well over-subscribed. The teams selected are building for a wide variety of use cases and span four tracks: novel applications, intent solvers, and the open track—each contributing unique approaches to the evolving intents landscape.The novel applications track will curate teams that are building applications that bring real value to the Anoma community and the broader intents ecosystem. Together with the private devnet teams that are already further along in their builder journey, a diverse set of applications is taking shape across various Web3 use cases. The infrastructure track will be the largest track for the initial cohort and will lend major support to launching a fully functional ecosystem from day one.&nbsp;Teams on the solver track will help tailor solver DevEx to the cutting edge of what current systems offer and beyond. We’ll see continued onboarding of solvers and we welcome additional teams to apply. The open track is a testament to Anoma’s long-term vision of expanding Web3 use cases and will support teams with equally ambitious, long-term commitments.<h2 id="meet-the-initiates-novel-applications-track">Meet the Initiates: Novel Applications Track</h2><a href="https://encifher.io/?ref=blog.anoma.net">Encifher</a> Encifher unlocks the power of seamless, high-performance, confidential computation, creating a compliant privacy 2.0 engine for DeFi. This engine allows dApps across existing L1, L2, and L3 networks to incorporate compliant privacy features seamlessly without fragmenting liquidity. Encifer is planning to use Anoma to build a confidential computation DEX.	<a href="https://tetrics.io/?ref=blog.anoma.net" rel="noreferrer">Tetrics</a> Tetrics is an intent-based options liquidity layer, enabling trading without capital loss and leverage without liquidation. They are planning to use Anoma to build a private options exchange powered by intents. Tetrics joined the program because it aligns perfectly with their vision of transforming options liquidity through intent-driven design. Tetrics leverages trader intents to aggregate the best liquidity sources across assets, and the program’s focus on innovative, intent-based methodologies offers a unique opportunity to refine and scale this concept.<a href="https://tplus.cx/?ref=blog.anoma.net">T+</a> T+ is the first decentralized brokerage. The program will allow for&nbsp; t+ and Anoma to expand research into novel types of intent-based DeFi. Particularly, t+ aims to build custom settlement models for exotic products.<h2 id="meet-the-initiates-infrastructure-track">Meet the Initiates: Infrastructure Track</h2><a href="https://adamik.io/?ref=blog.anoma.net">Adamik</a> Adamik simplifies blockchain integration with a chain-agnostic, fast, and secure API. Adamik empowers enterprises to connect with 60+ blockchains while retaining full control of their keys. Adamik is a powerful yet simple API to seamlessly read and write on multiple blockchains. The team is planning to provide a powerful yet simple API to seamlessly read and write intent-based transactions to expand the intent ecosystem.<a href="https://epochprotocol.xyz/?ref=blog.anoma.net">Epoch Protocol</a> Epoch Protocol is the universal co-ordination layer for agents and solvers. Epoch Protocol believes that “coordination is the key” to solving this and therefore the protocol uses a sub-intent orchestrator, composable intent solvers, AI agents, and state observers (hyperions) to deconstruct an intent into relevant sub-intents and coordinate competing solvers and AI Agents to find the best solutions. An integration with Anoma will lead to synergies of both solver systems and network effects that will benefit users in the broader intent ecosystem.<a href="https://fairblock.network/?ref=blog.anoma.net">Fairblock</a> Fairblock is a decentralized cryptographic computer that runs secure and performant MPC-based confidential computation. It mitigates centralized risks and prevents information leakage and manipulations in decentralized applications across major ecosystems including EVM and Cosmos chains. Fairblock unlocks credible and confidential DeFi mechanisms and AI models for future Web3 users. In cooperation with Anoma, Fairblock will create a custom confidential auction system that gives back control and customizability to the user.<a href="https://metasig.io/?ref=blog.anoma.net">MetaSig Wallet</a> MetaSig provides revolutionary wallet technology for novel cryptographic systems. The team holds a deep conviction that intents have the potential to avoid all the UX frictions of DeFi. Thus, MetaSig will initiate, sign and verify intents from within a wallet with seamless UX.<a href="https://orda.network/?ref=blog.anoma.net" rel="noreferrer">Orda</a> Orda is a financial technology company providing abstracted payment orchestration. The team addresses the inefficiencies in traditional and blockchain-based payment systems by building a solution that combines the convenience of traditional payments with the efficiency of blockchain technology. Anoma’s intent-centric protocol will allow Orda to build a new form of API-based payments systems that incorporates novel solver techniques to enhance efficiency.<a href="https://predicate.io/?ref=blog.anoma.net">Predicate</a> Predicate is censorship-resistant policy infrastructure. Through Predicate, users, developers, and communities define rules for onchain interactions, integrating expressive pre-transaction logic into decentralized applications. These rules, like legos, can be stacked to form policies, which are enforced by the Predicate Network. Examples include policies for anti-money laundering, collateral verification, exploit mitigation, geolocation, and anomaly detection. For the Anoma ecosystem, Predicate enables solvers to apply custom risk management and flow of funds checks before servicing an order, ensuring that their activity adheres to the solvers' or LP's constraints.<a href="https://knowable.vc/?ref=blog.anoma.net">Knowable</a> Knowable is a team of experts who operate and secure decentralized networks with local, bare metal. Knowable has been heavily involved with Namada in a variety of roles, playing a major part in the operations of the housefire/campfire testnets, the shielded-expedition, and the Luminara community outreach program. Throughout the program, the team will focus on enhancing the analytical understanding of intents, provide educational material, and community tools like a novel intent explorer.<h2 id="meet-the-initiates-solver-track">Meet the Initiates: Solver Track</h2><a href="https://sprinter.tech/?ref=blog.anoma.net">Sprinter</a> Sprinter is a fast, smooth, interoperable intent execution engine. The project aims to make multichain interactions feel like one. In doing so, Sprinter enhances cross-chain UX for all as a first-class citizen in both existing and upcoming Web3 technologies. With Anoma, Sprinter will contribute to initial solver technology and pave the way for the intent solver ecosystem on Anoma.Max Lomu Max and his future team focus on 1-click solver deployment without any coding knowledge required. With the team's vision, the user selects modules and deploys an autonomously running solver that is non custodial. The approach will enhance the intent ecosystem in various ways, most importantly through increasing competition for solvers and thus, making intent solutions more efficient for the user.<h2 id="meet-the-initiates-open-track">Meet the Initiates: Open Track</h2>Concordance Concordance operates as an object abstraction around resources and object relational mapping, managing state consistency across the application. With these tools, developers can build transparent applications that run without a server, intertwined with the blockchain. The project will contribute to ongoing Anoma research and benefit ecosystem developers by providing tools to interface with data across the application stack.<a href="https://linera.io/?ref=blog.anoma.net">Linera</a> Linera's unique architecture lets users interact directly with small chains of blocks, called microchains, allowing applications to read and write onchain data with the lowest latency and highest security possible. The collaboration between Linera and Anoma will push forward different streams of research and explore ways to incorporate Anoma’s Resource Machine in Linera’s concept of microchains.TerraTwin TerraTwin is a novel platform that connects physical landscapes to digital representations, enabling verifiable ecological credit creation and management. The system integrates Three.js visualization, LLM-powered validation agents, and Anoma's Resource Machine to create a trusted link between ecosystem health and tokenized environmental assets.<h2 id="meet-the-initiates-private-devnet-teams">Meet the Initiates: Private devnet teams</h2>The 15 selected teams from Intents Initiates will join the existing private devnet teams, who will receive the same support from the program:<a href="https://x.com/anylabs?ref=blog.anoma.net">Any</a> Any is a post cloud communication network for independent minds. It features independent communication channels where every change is cryptographically signed and encrypted. Ownership logic and identities are stored on-chain, while social interactions rely on gas-less transactions with local consensus through CRDTs. Anoma’s intent layer will enable parties that don’t know each other to establish a connection and make deals while preserving the privacy of those connections.<a href="https://x.com/Flutonio?ref=blog.anoma.net">Fluton</a> Fluton is the intent-centric, fast and low-cost gateway enabling instant swaps and bridges across EVM and AltVM networks. Fluton is exploring the use of Anoma’s intents and P2P network to enhance liquidity depth. Anoma’s generalized intents and programmable data sovereignty can enable Fluton to expand its scope to enable more complex intent creation, such as cross-chain NFT swaps, cross-chain hooks, and other advanced use cases.<a href="https://x.com/HeyElsaAI?ref=blog.anoma.net">HeyElsa</a> A composable layer for DeFAI agents. Managing crypto assets can be daunting. AI agents simplify web3 trading, but lack the SDKs, APIs, and infrastructure to be useful. Elsa AI transforms the modern web3 trading experience with a freeform, natural-language, AI Agent Hub, designed to simplify crypto transactions and asset management. HeyElsa is exploring the delegation of solver tasks to Anoma’s infrastructure for intent-based problem-solving, ensuring the most efficient execution of user requests, as well as providing private execution for sensitive transactions, aligning with Elsa’s user-centric and security-focused goals.<a href="https://x.com/mycelmycel?ref=blog.anoma.net">Mycel</a> Mycel is building the first privacy-preserving order book DEX that enables truly seamless cross-chain trading through revolutionary Account Transfer Protocol, powered by Anoma's intent-centric architecture.<a href="https://x.com/Poetic_Tech?ref=blog.anoma.net">Poetic Technologies</a> Poetic Technologies is a fantastic collective enterprise whose mission is to liberate the technical imagination from bureaucratic technologies. Poetic Technologies' core offerings include secure software and hardware for next generation TEEs, research and development in zero knowledge cryptography and monetary innovation. They are exploring the use of Anoma's resource machine to power up their TEE builders for a variety of different applications.<a href="https://x.com/repponetwork?ref=blog.anoma.net">Reppo</a> Reppo is building a resource coordination layer that allows AI devs and agents to permissionlessly raise capital, and to access niche datasets and infra on demand by simply expressing intents. Anoma is a critical component for Reppo as it provides an out of box solution to relay and settle intents between AI builders and data owners/providers, capital allocators, and infra owners. Reppo also pairs intents with IP co-ownership incentives to facilitate price discovery for resources needed to build AI.<a href="https://x.com/spicenetio?ref=blog.anoma.net">Spicenet</a> Spicenet is the unified and composable liquidity layer for trading applications. Spicenet enshrines key trading infrastructure and liquidity at the network-level, making it easy for trading applications to access trading primitives like money markets, spot and futures instruments, as well as liquidity for their use-case. The Spicenet Execution Network consumes orders in the form of intents and finds optimal liquidity routes to fulfil them, leveraging liquidity orchestration. Anoma is a key component, enabling direct, native submission of intents to Anoma’s distributed, intent-centric network for fulfilment.<a href="https://www.swissdao.space/?ref=blog.anoma.net">SwissDAO</a> SwissDAO is developing a generalized framework for autonomous intent-based matchmaking, building on the concept of intent machines like Anoma. SwissDAO focuses on connecting intents across diverse domains such as job markets, dating, shared economies, and gaming, to name just a few. SwissDAO’s approach is grounded in agentic systems. These systems empower autonomous agents to act as facilitators, representing users or organizations in negotiating, automating, and improving matchmaking processes as they evolve. SwissDAO is exploring Anoma's intent machine model to make intent matching more efficient and transparent.<h2 id="the-quest-to-become-an-anomaly">The Quest to Become an Anomaly</h2>This is just the beginning for the Intents Initiates. Over the coming months, these teams will work closely with the Anoma community to refine their projects, overcome technical challenges, and prepare for their pitches at the upcoming Intents Ecosystem Demo Day.The most exceptional teams will earn their place among the Anomalies—an exclusive collective of top pioneers of intent-centric technologies. These teams will help define the standards and possibilities for the entire intents ecosystem moving forward.<h2 id="stay-tuned-for-future-cohorts">Stay tuned for future cohorts</h2>Evaluation of applications for future cohorts will be announced in the next phase. If you're building in the intents space and missed this round, stay tuned for consideration in our next cohort. In the mean time, check out the <a href="https://docs.anoma.net/?ref=blog.anoma.net" rel="noreferrer">Anoma docs</a> to learn about building with intents.The future of Web3 is intent-centric, and these 15 teams are at the forefront of this transformation. Stay tuned for more details about these projects and how they progress on their ideas in the coming months as they embark on their journey as Intents Initiates.

Announcing Intents Initiates Cohort 01

Starting today, builders can join an exclusive program designed to empower intents ecosystem projects to focus on what they do best - building. The Intents Initiates program will support select cohorts of builders developing projects in the Anoma ecosystem and the broader intents ecosystem. Builders accepted to the program become early pioneers of intent-centric applications, tools, and infrastructure – and gain access to exclusive perks and opportunities.Anoma is spearheading the next phase of evolution for blockchain technology with its distributed operating system for intent-centric applications. As the industry's pioneering architecture for generalized intents, Anoma represents a new paradigm for decentralized applications and is cultivating a new ecosystem of intense builders. The Intents Initiates Program is designed to help accelerate the growth of the intents ecosystem by providing teams with the resources they need to build the intent-centric future for Web3. <blockquote>The best of the best teams completing the program may earn their place in the Anomalies, an exclusive collective of top early pioneers of intent-centric technologies. Only the most intense builders have what it takes to be an Anomaly.</blockquote><h2 id="program-perks">Program perks</h2><ul><li>Fundraising: Get fundraising support through introductions to the Anoma backer network and the potential of token incentives from a grant pool of 25M XAN (Anoma’s native token)</li><li>Mentorship: Join monthly 1-on-1 mentor sessions with industry-renowned experts across engineering, investing, research, and product</li><li>Intents Ecosystem Demo Day: Pitch your project to the Anoma backer network, meet potential backers, prepare you to raise money, and get ready to scale</li><li>Ecosystem collaboration: Take advantage of exclusive collaboration opportunities across the Anoma ecosystem, join events, and more</li><li>Tech &amp; product support: From ideation to product development and roadmapping, get hands on technical support for your project and join exclusive co-building opportunities and hacker houses.</li></ul><h2 id="program-overview">Program overview</h2>The Intents Initiates Program empowers builders from product ideation to development, launch and beyond. Accepted teams receive support with engineering, fundraising, and product development as well as dedicated 1-on-1 mentorship.A major highlight of the program will be the Intents Ecosystem Demo Day with projects presenting to potential backers, giving teams the opportunity to secure funding and take their projects to the next level. Additionally, the program features the possibility of token incentives from a grant pool of 25M XAN, providing further alignment with the ecosystem.&nbsp;This program is geared towards building long-term relationships while jointly creating the basis of the intents builder ecosystem.<h2 id="who-should-apply">Who should Apply?</h2>We’re looking for builders that want to contribute to the intent-centric future of blockchain. Ideal candidates are engineering-driven teams and individuals who possess a strong understanding of blockchain applications and a proven track record of shipping code. Ultimately we’re looking for the Anomalies, an exclusive group of only the most intents of the intents builders.Both established and early-stage teams are encouraged to apply to the program. Any intents-related project ideas are welcome. Project ideas may fit into the following four tracks, though additional project categories are also welcome to apply:<ul><li>Novel applications track: Use the power of intents to create novel applications like a multi-dimensional orderbook DEX, peer-to-peer chat app, supply-side Kickstarter competitor or whatever comes to mind. As long as you make it intents</li><li>Infrastructure track: Build next generation intent-based infrastructure, tooling, wallets, explorers, and more</li><li>Intent solver track: Contribute to the ecosystem with novel solver technology and harness Anoma to compose intent liquidity across various L1s and L2s</li><li>Open track: Let your intents imagination run wild. Build open-source hardware, tools for public goods funding, create an entirely new monetary system, or develop any other idea that inspires you</li></ul><h2 id="how-to-apply">How to apply</h2>Submit your application at the link below by sharing your project idea and motivation, with a link to your GitHub to demonstrate how intents your engineering skills are. The program will accept projects in a series of cohorts, with applications remaining open continually.&nbsp;Applications are currently open – teams are encouraged to apply by March 6th to be considered for the first cohort. The evaluation period for cohort 1 will end on March 20th.Think you got what it takes to be an Anomaly? Apply to the Intents Initiates Program below, demonstrate your intensity, and accelerate your builder's journey.<div class="kg-card kg-button-card kg-align-center"><a href="https://app.deform.cc/form/80db2588-a08d-445c-8701-d921323d9ffc?ref=blog.anoma.net" class="kg-btn kg-btn-accent">Apply Now</a></div>

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