Exclusive Interview with Anoma Founder Adrian Brink: Unveiling the "Intent Architecture" that Will Reshape the Future of Blockchain

At the crossroads of blockchain technology development, a silent revolution is brewing. Anoma founder Adrian Brink, with his rich experience from core developers of Cosmos to entrepreneur, is building a system that fundamentally disrupts the existing blockchain interaction model. In this deep conversation, Adrian shares his unique insights on intent-driven architecture and how this technology lays the foundation for decentralized collaboration in the AI era.

From Cosmos to Anoma: Seeking the Third Path of Blockchain

Adrian Brink's Blockchain journey began in 2015 when he was researching an anti-censorship electronic voting system on Ethereum. This research led him to encounter the Tendermint consensus mechanism, and he eventually became the third core developer of Cosmos.

"By the end of 2020, I looked around the entire field and found that innovation had stagnated. Ethereum and Solana were essentially doing the same thing," Adrian recalled. "We started thinking about what a third-generation blockchain should look like, and the answer was clear: we need a true Decentralization operating system, not just another 'world computer.'"

This kind of thinking has given rise to the core concept of Anoma: intent submission, counterpart discovery, and decentralized solving. Rather than building a unified global computing platform, Anoma is committed to creating a unified application layer that can operate seamlessly across chains and domains.

Intent Architecture: Fundamental Restructuring of Blockchain Interaction

Traditional blockchain requires users to explicitly specify each step of the operation, just like one must plan out every turn in a navigation system. However, Anoma's intent architecture fundamentally changes this model.

"Intention is essentially an expression of a partial state transfer," Adrian explained. "On Ethereum, if you want to exchange ETH for BTC, you cannot express that goal directly. You have to specify each step of the operation: first send ETH to the AMM, then wait for the transaction to be confirmed, and then..."

Anoma allows users to directly express their end goals, and the system will automatically find the best execution path. This abstraction is not only applicable to asset exchanges but can also be extended to any state transitions, including multi-signature operations, cross-chain interactions, and other complex scenarios.

Intention-Driven Practical Advantages

Adrian illustrated the advantages of the intent architecture with a vivid example: "The problem with traditional AMMs like Uniswap is that they are costly and slow, as all transactions must go through global consensus ordering. While centralized exchanges are fast, they lack the security of decentralization."

Anoma provides a win-win solution:

Localization processing: Transactions can be completed quickly between geographically close nodes, unaffected by global consensus delay constraints.

Auto-scaling: If local resources cannot meet the demand, the intent will automatically scale out to a broader network.

Multiple Solver Competition: Multiple solvers simultaneously compete to provide the best execution, avoiding decentralization risks.

"Imagine that you only need to input 'I want to trade these two assets' in the chatbot, and the system will automatically find the best execution path for you, whether based on price, speed, or other conditions," Adrian depicted this vision. "You don't have to worry about the execution details behind it at all, just focus on the final result."

Solving Fragmentation: A New Paradigm for Bridge-less Cross-chain

When discussing the fragmentation issue of the current Blockchain ecosystem, Adrian spoke frankly: "Look at these Rollups and various chains; they are essentially doing the same thing. Base and Optimism are hardly different, just wrapped in different packaging colors, but the result is that the ecosystem is severely fragmented."

Anoma provides a brand new solution:

Unified Operating System: Anoma can be deployed on any underlying system with sufficient expressiveness.

Native Cross-Domain Communication: Anoma instances on different chains can communicate directly with each other.

Complex state transitions: not only can simple assets be transferred, but complete complex states can also be migrated.

"The best example is CDP (Collateralized Debt Position). In the traditional model, if you want to move your position on MakerDAO from Ethereum to Solana, you have to close the position, transfer the assets, and then rebuild the position. In Anoma, you can directly migrate the entire complex state," Adrian explained. "It's like in traditional finance, where you don't need to sell all your stocks and then buy them back, but can directly transfer the entire portfolio."

Decentralized Collaboration Infrastructure in the AI Era

When asked about the relationship between AI and intentional architecture, Adrian demonstrated forward-thinking: "I believe that in the future, everyone will have thousands of AI agents working for us, and intention is the abstract layer for their communication."

In Anoma's vision, AI agents can transform human language into structured intentions, negotiate with other AI agents, find matching points, and execute automatically. This kind of infrastructure does not exist in traditional systems, but is crucial for large-scale collaboration in the AI era.

Practical Case of Cross-Entity Trustless Collaboration

Adrian gave an example of travel planning: "Suppose I want to go to Seoul, I need to book flights, hotels, and airport pickup services. This involves multiple different databases and service providers."

This process can be realized under the architecture of Anoma:

· The user's AI agent generates an abstract intention to express needs

· The intention is to negotiate with AI agents of hotels, airlines, and transportation services.

· The system may call external Solvers to handle complex calculations (such as the optimal route considering weather factors)

· Ultimately provide users with an atomic solution: either confirm all services simultaneously or not at all.

"This is where the atomicity issue becomes apparent: booking a flight alone without a hotel is meaningless," Adrian emphasized. "Anoma's multi-domain concurrent system can achieve atomic operations across different security models and latency models."

Beyond Finance: The Potential of Games and Supply Chains

Although early adopters may primarily come from the financial sector, Adrian is particularly optimistic about two additional application areas: gaming and supply chain.

"Games are extremely sensitive to latency, and to make them fun, they have to be very fast and smooth," Adrian explained. "In Anoma, you can run localized instances, just like how League of Legends does: set up a main Solver in specific geographic areas to provide ultra-low latency confirmations, and then settle the results to the global layer."

For supply chains, Adrian believes the key lies in the collaboration between different sovereign entities: "I don't think any government will issue national currency on Ethereum, because no one will hand over currency sovereignty to a decentralized network. The reality is that governments will run their own chains and cities will run their own chains. Anoma provides a highly flexible way for different autonomous systems and sovereign entities to interact smoothly."

Technical Implementation and Market Expansion

Speaking about the current technical challenges, Adrian stated that most theoretical and practical issues have been resolved: "From a theoretical perspective, these problems have basically been solved. Even on a practical level, most issues, especially those involving cryptography and consensus mechanisms, have also been resolved and implemented."

The current challenge lies more in prioritization and productization: "Which systems should we prioritize for expansion? How do we package it into products that institutions can use immediately?" Adrian revealed that Anoma is working closely with several institutions to explore how to integrate the technology into the banks' tech stack.

In the planning for the next 12 months, Adrian shared several key milestones:

· The upcoming Token Launch allows the community to participate in the governance of Anoma.

· The launch of a series of applications, including payment and portal applications.

· Multiple institutional-level cooperation announcements will expand Anoma to broader application scenarios.

Asian Market: A Fertile Ground for Innovation

Adrian expressed a particular interest in the Asian market, especially in China and South Korea: "The Chinese and South Korean markets have always been a major focus for us. In contrast, developers in Europe tend to be less adventurous in trying new things, but in Korea and China, many cool new ideas keep emerging, and everyone experiments with them directly."

Adrian particularly mentioned his experience in Hangzhou in 2019: "The developer ecosystem in Hangzhou left a very deep impression on me; it is truly a great technological environment."

He believes that Anoma's philosophy is particularly suitable for the Asian market: "Anoma is more concerned with providing infrastructure for local communities. For example, allowing users in Shanghai to use the local Anoma system. It certainly supports cross-regional and interoperability, but users will not be forced to rely on a global security model that they do not care about."

The intent architecture of Anoma represents a paradigm shift in Blockchain technology, moving from instruction-driven to goal-driven, from global unity to local priority. With the arrival of the AI era, this infrastructure capable of supporting large-scale Decentralization collaboration may become a key component of the next generation of the Internet.