Anoma and Namada Unveil Intent-Centric Vision for Ethereum at EthCC

At the EthCC event in Paris, the founders of the blockchain architecture protocol Anoma and its partner Namada unveiled a rush of new innovations. Adrian Brink and Christopher Goes, co-founders of Anoma, discussed the multi-chain concepts behind their initiatives in the French capital during the three-day event.

On the last day of EthCC, July 20, Adrian Brink talked on the main stage about his vision for introducing intents to the Ethereum network. Anoma is at the core of this vision as the first intent-centric blockchain architecture because it offers innovative properties for applications like end-to-end decentralization, information flow control, and completely programmable intents.

“It is crucial to understand that Anoma is an architecture, not a blockchain,” said Brink, explaining, “This distinction allows existing applications to utilize Anoma’s properties to the extent they require. For example, rollups could employ Anoma’s counterparty discovery to decentralize their sequencer, or use Anoma to generate intents for Ethereum.”

Brink used his main stage addressing slot to announce the beginning of Anoma’s first incentive-based Request for Comments (RFC) program, which aims to entice researchers and developers from Ethereum and other communities to review the project’s architectural specifications and offer suggestions for improvements.

The Anoma Foundation will allocate a portion of the Anoma genesis distribution to contributors as part of the RFC program, which is expected to commence this fall.

Brink has validated a new method of exchanging tokens anonymously on the Cosmos exchange Osmosis. He is also the co-founder of Namada, a Proof-of-Stake Layer-1 enabling multi-chain privacy. Osmosis users may securely trade tokens on a chain that does not natively allow privacy thanks to the Shielded Swaps functionality.

Namada uses a unique incentive system called “shielded set rewards” to reward multi-chain users that help to promote privacy for all other Namada users.