Build with Intention

Focus on your app and let Anoma handle the rest. Build once and access users, state and settlement on any underlying chain with a single deployment.

A Distributed OS for the Intent-Centric Era

Anoma is a distributed operating system for intent-centric applications. It’s changing the way we interact with the internet and making a more expressive, human-centric future possible for dapps.

  • 01

    User-centric

    Build apps that better serve your users. Put users in control by allowing them to clearly state their preferences, abstracting away the complexities of underlying infrastructure and creating more human-friendly interfaces.

  • 02

    Unified & composable

    Write one app that just works everywhere. Connect to existing liquidity and users on any underlying chain. Anoma defragments the multichain ecosystem, enables intent-level composability, and eliminates the headache of navigating different chains.

  • 03

    Plug-and-play

    Get maximum flexibility with generalized intents and eliminate the need to build or integrate any additional specialized components or infrastructure. Get to market faster and reduce maintenance overhead with plug-and-play counterparty discovery, solving, and settlement.

  • 04

    Scale-free

    Scalability is no longer a constraint. Anoma introduces a novel, scale-free approach to scalability, eliminating the need to do everything on chain. Leverage distributed data and compute for the ultimate scalability, efficiency, and cost effectiveness. Anoma apps can scale as much as the laws of physics allow.

From VMTo IM

The next generation of decentralized applications is intent-centric and user-friendly. Anoma’s intent machine adds powerful functionality to existing virtual machines, enabling fully expressive apps that are decentralized across the entire stack.

  • VM

    Transaction-centric

    Users must specify specific execution traces, adding unnecessary complexity.

  • IM

    Intent-centric

    Users only need to specify their desired outcome, significantly improving UX.

  • VM

    On-chain data & compute

    Expensive and inefficient on-chain data & compute limits scalability and increases costs.

  • IM

    Distributed data & compute

    Data and compute lives on edge devices with on-chain verification. Costs stay low even as usage scales.

  • VM

    Infrastructure lock-in

    Apps are restricted by the limitations of their specific deployment chain.

  • IM

    Application portability

    Apps are fully portable — infrastructure comes to you, wherever you have state.

  • VM

    Transaction-level composability

    Composability is limited to transactions, and breaks down when multichain operations are required.

  • IM

    Intent-level composability

    Intents are fully composable across any chain or application, defragmenting multichain intent liquidity.

  • VM

    1-size-fits-all global consensus

    Users and communities have no choice over their preferred trust model beyond exiting. Resilience is limited.

  • IM

    On-demand consensus

    Customizable consensus enables ultra-low latency and cost. Apps can roam freely between trust zones.

  • VM

    Limited data protection

    Global, immutable shared state limits the ability to protect user data.

  • IM

    Programmable data sovereignty

    You and your users have precise control over what data is shared with whom.

  • VM

    Centralized counterparty discovery

    Intent-centric apps on VMs need to rely on centralized servers or build everything on-chain.

  • IM

    Decentralized counterparty discovery

    Intents are matched and solved in a fully-decentralized way regardless of which chain or app users are on.

  • VM

    Limited applications

    Intents in the VM model are application specific, anything more complex requires centralized components.

  • IM

    Build anything

    You can build any application, including applications that cannot be built on VMs without adding centralization points.

Build Something New

Anoma enables not just better apps, but new types of apps. Generalized intents bring full expressivity to the world of decentralized applications, so you can build arbitrary applications that don’t feel like the typical blockchain UX.

Example Anoma Apps

  • Fully decentralized order book exchanges
  • Fully decentralized Slack/Discord
  • Fully decentralized app-specific rollups
  • Matchmaking apps (Decentralized Tinder for X)
  • Novel crowdfunding mechanisms (Public Signal)

Get Ready for the Application Era

Anoma is preparing for mainnet launch. Get ahead of the curve by starting your builder journey now.