After years of research and development, today the first phase of Anoma’s roadmap to mainnet begins with the launch of Anoma’s first devnet. Anoma is open for the very first builders of intent-centric applications. 

During this initial phase, a curated cohort of builder teams will begin pioneering applications on a private devnet. This will enable the first intent-centric applications to take shape, and will help Anoma iterate towards a more stable public testnet phase thanks to feedback from these early pioneers. 

As the first tangible iteration of Anoma’s distributed intent-centric operating system, this milestone marks a key turning point for decentralized applications. Anoma’s intent machine represents a significant step change from today’s transaction-centric virtual machine paradigm for dapp development. It sets a new standard for developer and user experience, and will help end the fragmentation that currently holds back Web3 applications.

This intent-centric model is a significant generational shift that involves some key conceptual differences, including Anoma’s novel resource model, that builders will need to familiarize themselves with. Beware: here be dragons! The devnet is an early version of the Anoma codebase that will be iterated upon with the help of early builders to arrive at a more stable version.

Get started with Anoma’s developer docs

With the launch of the devnet, Anoma’s initial developer documentation has also been published. The docs provide an overview of key concepts for building applications on Anoma, introduce Juvix, Anoma’s programming language for intent-centric apps, and help developers get started building basic apps. This is an initial version of the docs that will co-evolve with the overall Anoma software and Juvix language to provide a comprehensive resource for builders, including application development tutorials. Have a look and provide feedback on GitHub.

Introducing the first cohort of intents builders

The first cohort of Anoma application builders are currently working on the devnet across use cases for intent-centric DeFi, AI, messaging, and privacy. 

Mycel
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.

HeyElsa
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.

Fluton
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.

Reppo
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.

Poetic Technologies
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.

Spicenet
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.

SwissDAO
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.

Any
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.

What’s next?

These early pioneers will be a crucial part of Anoma’s mainnet rollout process, providing early feedback to be incorporated into Anoma’s design. In the next phase of Anoma’s roadmap to mainnet, the Anoma Builders Program will open the devnet to a broader developer audience through public applications. 

Check out the full roadmap to mainnet, the new Anoma docs, and watch the Introduction to Anoma for App Developers workshop to get an overview of building intent-centric applications.

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