Behind the Popularity of TG Bot: Intent-Based Trading is Opening the Door to Web3 Smart Interactions

Summary

(1) Understanding Intent: Top-Down Anoma and Bottom-Up TG Bot

(2) Deep Intent: AI as the New UI - Complex Commands VS Simple Intent

(3) Navigation Intent: Evolution of the Intent Concept, Interaction Paradigms, Current Status and Trends

( Guidance Intent: Challenges and Prospects of Intelligent Interaction in Web3

In June, the Paradigm website published an article titled "Intent-Based Architectures and Their Risks," bringing the concept of intent into the public eye for the first time. Related protocols and infrastructure developed rapidly, and the ETHCC conference in July became a hot topic in the crypto world.

Intent is not a new concept. The crypto space has been abstracting and automating various operations to the extreme, from aggregators to CEX, contract wallets, cross-chain DeFi, and more. There are also Chainlink and the recent automation middleware, as well as Telegram bots.

Intent also brings new changes. In the past, the core was product interaction, while in the AGI era, the core is human-computer interaction. AI/LLM contains immense potential to enhance encrypted interactions.

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01, Top-Down Anoma and Bottom-Up Unibot

In the past six months, agreements, projects, and infrastructures related to intentions have gradually gained popularity. Instead of explaining the concepts verbatim, we will illustrate through two typical cases.

Among the many intention-related projects, the most dazzling is the Anoma Foundation, which completed a $25 million Series C round of financing at the end of May 2023. In the context of severe homogeneity in Layer 1, the Anoma Foundation, with its intent-centric architecture Anoma)Dapp full-stack architecture( and Namada) privacy Layer1(, has raised a total of $57.8 million in three rounds, ranking 7th in terms of financing amount for unissued Layer 1/Layer 2.

Reflecting on Anoma's public presentation at EthCC, founder Adrian Brink stated that Anoma's uniqueness lies in: all interactions begin with intent, and the user's expressed intent is processed through Anoma's black box architecture ) also known as the magic box (, enabling a core transaction process based on intent interaction:

• User Interaction: Users can send transparent, private, or protected intents to the Anoma black box architecture ) intent gossip layer (.

• Intent collection and matching: The solver) parser of the black box architecture collects intents, conducts state balance transitions, and achieves counterparty matching.

• Transaction Processing: After matching, the transaction is submitted to the crypto mempool, and the validator sends the block packaged by the proposer to the execution layer, completing execution and validating its effectiveness, ultimately updating the state root.

The Anoma team has insight into the pain points of blockchain protocol layers. Looking back from Bitcoin's scriptable settlement to Ethereum's programmable settlement, the current application protocol architecture is limited, requiring at least one Web2 component, which cannot achieve counterparty discovery and resolution. They believe that the intent-centric Anoma architecture represents the third generation of Dapp architecture in the evolution of blockchain protocols, allowing users to define the desired outcome state, achieving efficient and customizable privacy transactions at the intent level, ushering in a new era.

Although it has high financing and an innovative technical architecture, Anoma is currently built by a team of 37 interdisciplinary members from Heliax, and progress has been slow over the past two years, but a complete innovative ecosystem has been formed.

• Anoma: A general-purpose Dapp architecture centered around intent, which can be modularly deployed to L1, L1.5, and L2, and embedded into various EVM frameworks with modular components for invocation.

• Namada: A privacy settlement Layer 1 of the Anoma ecosystem, using PoS mechanism, for asset-agnostic inter-chain privacy, will be compatible with Ethereum and IBC chains in the future.

• AnomaVM: Simplifying DApp development on Anoma, using Juvix(, an intent-centric programming language), and VampIR( circuit programming language).

• Typhon: Improved consensus based on Tendermint of Cosmos

• Taiga: Provides a composable private unified execution environment, defining three types: transparent intention, concealed intention, and privacy intention.

Although institutions like CMCC Global, Electric Capital, and Delphi Digital highly praise Anoma, claiming that its intent-centric architecture has limitless future potential, currently, Anoma has only established a solid technical foundation from the top down, and we have yet to see exciting practical applications. On the other hand, the TG Bot has demonstrated the imaginative application of Intent in segmented scenarios using on-chain automated trading tools.

Unibot is a Telegram-based trading bot ( TG Bot ) that allows users to perform automated DEX trading through Telegram, providing features such as sniper buying, copy trading, DEX limit orders, privacy, and anti-MEV. Unibot replaces the cumbersome interactions of Uniswap based on Intent, offering a convenient DeFi interaction experience. Unibot has also spawned a batch of TG Bot clones, with the current total market value of the TG Bot track approaching 200 million USD.

Top-down Anoma is innovation, while bottom-up TG Bot is transformation. Anoma starts from an intent-based underlying architecture, but the team's progress is slow; TG Bot, although it brings users a brand new on-chain interaction interface, is not intelligent and has many security risks.

The two paths leading to the same goal - simplifying user interaction experience, introducing a new programmable and customizable user interaction interface - User Intent Layer ( User Intent Layer ), allowing users to skip complex on-chain interactions and define transaction status based on intent.

02, AI Becomes the New UI: Command Interaction vs. Intent Interaction

The AI paradigm is introducing the third user interface paradigm in the history of computing, shifting towards a new interaction mechanism where users tell the computer what they want rather than how to do it.

• Paradigm One: Batch Processing
• Paradigm Two: Command-based Interaction Design
• Paradigm Three: Intent-Based Outcome Specification

Every revolution in interaction modes throughout history has led to entirely new business models. LLM-based generative AI brings disruptive changes to human-computer interaction, directly transforming the original human-computer interaction with various software UIs into interaction with the Chatgpt chat window, which is an unprecedented experience. LLM + crypto introduces a new proposition for the crypto world based on intent-driven interaction, and LLM will also enhance blockchain interactions by discovering and describing user intent, making them potentially smarter.

03, The Evolution of the Concept of Intent, Interaction Paradigms, Current Status and Trends

After deeply understanding the trend of AI intelligence behind intentions, we further explore the evolution of the concept of intention. Intention is not a new concept; it has existed since the Web2 era. With the rise of search engines like Google, users can input their intentions, and the search engines provide relevant results to satisfy those intentions.

With the rise of e-commerce platforms like Amazon and eBay, there has been a significant shift in intent-based architecture, allowing users to express their intent to purchase products while the platform handles logistics. In early 2017, Gartner released a report titled "Innovation Insight: Intent-Based Networking Systems," formally introducing the concept of Intent-based Networking(, which is centered around presenting users with an interface where they only need to express what they want, and the platform will handle the business details.

Intent-based networking is the trend of network automation and intelligence in the Web2 era. Andrew Lerner, Vice President of Research at Gartner, pointed out in 2017 that intent-based networking would be the next milestone in the field of networking.

In the evolution from Web2 to Web3, the concept of intent in Web3 is not clearly defined, but there are some common understandings:

• Paradigm Definition: Intent is a set of declarative constraints that allow users to delegate the creation of transactions to a specialized network of third-party participants while retaining full control over the process.

• Intent-based underlying Dapp architecture Anoma defines: Intent is a message sent by the user to express custom preferences. Intent is a constraint that defines what the user allows the system to do, rather than a specific execution path.

• Intent-based trading infrastructure Propellerheads definition: Intent is the part of a transaction that requires help from others, and intent simplifies complex transactions by outsourcing the difficult parts to third parties.

In Web3 intent-based transaction instances, users create intents off-chain, which are outsourced to the Solver) parser( to encapsulate the complexity of blockchain interactions, while retaining complete control of the process on-chain for users, thus lowering the barriers to on-chain interactions.

The intention is to bring the LLM architecture concept - intent centric ) an architecture centered around user intent (. Currently, the crypto protocols and infrastructure related to intent centric are embedded in the interaction layer between users and Crypto, leveraging LLM to provide a better on-chain interaction experience.

LLM+Crypto brings a new paradigm of human-computer interaction, which can directly convert user intentions into smart contract calls. Users only need to express their intentions like using Apple's Siri, while robots/AI agents/third-party parsers assist in completing complex on-chain operations. In the future, intention-based Web3 interactions will be intelligent, with the potential to significantly reduce the complexity of user on-chain interactions.

AI is becoming the new UI, and more and more Web3 projects are exploring the magic of intent. Whether it's intent-based Dapps or intent-based underlying architectures, they are unlocking the potential of intent from different angles. We attempt to organize this rapidly developing field and categorize it into four major categories from an interaction perspective, tracking the latest status and trends:

Infrastructure ) intent-centric intent architecture layer (:

• DappOS: The first intent-based Web3 operating protocol, which builds an intermediary layer between users and public chains, cross-chain bridges, and other crypto infrastructures, allowing Web3 users to interact with products seamlessly and without awareness. Recently, DappOS released version V2.

• Flash 2.0 SUAVE: SUAVE is an independent plug-and-play modular MEV full-chain sorting layer, Preferences ) The core concept of SUAVE ( is similar to the Intent concept, both providing ordinary users with customizable trading methods, ultimately helping users achieve optimal execution. Flashbots plans to launch SUAVE Centauri in Q4 2023.

• Anoma: A general Dapp architecture centered around intentions, which can be modularly deployed to L1, L1.5, and L2, allowing modular components to be embedded and called within various EVM frameworks. The latest update in the Anoma ecosystem is that the privacy settlement Layer1 Namada is about to exit the v0.22.0 testnet.

• Cow Protocol: Builds an underlying settlement network for traders and parsers. In July, the new Cow Hooks intent system was released to enable custom DeFi operations. The latest data from August shows a total trading volume of $1.05 billion, generating a profit of $5.3 million.

Supporting infrastructure ) related to intent and related to account abstract wallets: (.

• ERC 4337: User Operation is the user's intent, including the token used to pay for gas, payment choices, and login methods, replacing the current transaction memory pool, thereby achieving account abstraction and improving wallet interaction experience.

• Supporting facilities related to account abstraction: Packager infrastructure ) StackUp, Blocknative, Alchemy Rundler, AA-Bundler, infinitism Bundler (, wallet SDK ) Safe, ZeroDev, Biconomy (.

• Facilities related to intention: Juvix), an intention-based programming language(; Seaport), an open-source NFT trading protocol(; Gelato), a Web3 automated execution layer providing automation services for smart contracts(; okcontract), a low-level intention automation tool(; Delegatable), a smart contract authorization proxy tool(; Hyper Oracle), an off-chain automation service(; symmio), an intention-based on-chain derivatives trading framework(.

Enterprise application ) integrated Dapp's intent infrastructure, API, modular intent layer, specific domain parser (:

• Trading Parser API: PropelleHeads
• Intent API: EnsoFinance
• Intent Trading Infrastructure: Bob the Solver, Brink
• Composable Intent Tool: Essential

The intelligent interface for consumer applications ) user interactions, such as wallets, DEX, Web3 AI Agents, smart search engines (:

• Wallets: Safe, Bitconomy, Argent, Ambire, Sequence, Versa, A3SProtocol
• DEX: CowSwap, Paraswap, Uniswap, 1inch, BananaHq, basedmarkets
• Intelligent Frontend: Unibot, Dora, Web3 Analytics, kaito.ai

The intent-based architecture, supporting facilities, and enterprise applications attempt to address the underlying challenges of intent realization, but infrastructure does not come together overnight. The trend of intent consumer applications is what is truly exciting.