The Surge of TG Bot: Intent to Trade Opens the Door to Intelligent Interaction in Web3

Summary

(1) Understanding Intent: Top-down Anoma and Bottom-up TG Bot

(2) Deep Intent: AI is the new UI - Complex Commands VS Simple Intent

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

( Guiding Intent: Challenges and Prospects of Intelligent Web3 Interaction

In June, Paradigm published an article titled "Intent-Based Architectures and Their Risks," which introduced the concept of Intent) to the public for the first time. Related protocols and infrastructure have developed rapidly, and it became a hot topic in the crypto world at the ETHCC conference in July.

Intention is not a new concept. As Mindao, the founder of DForce, said: the crypto space has been continuously abstracting and automating operations to the extreme, from aggregators and centralized exchanges to contract wallets and cross-chain DeFi, and there are also Chainlink, automation middleware, and the recent Telegram bots, etc.

Intention to bring new changes. In the past, the core was product interaction; in the AGI era, the core is human-computer interaction. AI/LLM contains great potential to enhance encrypted interactions.

01, Top-Down Anoma and Bottom-Up Unibot

In the past six months, agreements, projects, and infrastructure related to intentions have been booming one after another. This will not explain the concepts in detail, but will illustrate them through two typical examples.

There are many projects related to intent, the most notable being the Anoma Foundation, which completed a $25 million Series C financing at the end of May 2023. In the context of severe homogeneity in Layer 1, the Anoma Foundation has raised a total of $57.8 million in three rounds of funding with intent-centric (, an intent-focused ) architecture, the Anoma ( Dapp full-stack architecture ), and the Namada ( privacy Layer 1 ), ranking seventh in financing among Layer 1/Layer 2 projects that have not issued tokens.

Reflecting on Anoma's public speech at EthCC, founder Adrian Brink stated that Anoma's uniqueness lies in: all interactions begin with intent, and the intent expressed by users is processed through Anoma's black box architecture (, also known as the magic box ), to realize the core transaction process based on intent interactions.

• User Interaction: Users send transparent, private, or protected intentions to the Anoma black box architecture ( intention propagation layer ).
• Intent Collection and Matching: The parser of the black box architecture collects intents, performs balanced state transitions, and achieves counterparty matching.
• Transaction Processing: The matched transactions are submitted to the crypto mempool, and validators send the blocks packaged by the proposers to the execution layer, completing execution and verifying validity, ultimately updating the state root.

The Anoma team has identified the pain points at the underlying layer of blockchain protocols. Reviewing the evolution from Bitcoin's scriptable settlement to Ethereum's programmable settlement, the limitations of existing application protocol architectures necessitate at least one Web2 component, hindering counterparty discovery and resolution. They believe that the intent-centric Anoma architecture is the third generation Dapp architecture in the evolution of blockchain protocols, allowing users to define the desired outcome state and achieve efficient and customizable privacy transactions at the intent level, ushering in a new era.

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

• Anoma: A universal Dapp architecture centered around intent, which can be modularly deployed to L1, L1.5, L2, and embedded as modular components in various EVM frameworks.
• Namada: A privacy settlement Layer 1 of the Anoma ecosystem, using a 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(, a circuit programming language).
• Typhon: An improved consensus based on Tendermint on Cosmos
• Taiga: Provides a composable privacy unified execution environment, defining three types of intentions: transparent intention, concealed intention, and privacy intention.

Although institutions like CMCC Global, Electric Capital, and Delphi Digital are enthusiastic about Anoma and optimistic about the potential of its intent-centered architecture, currently, Anoma has only laid the technical foundation from the top down and has yet to present any exciting real-world applications. On the other hand, TG Bot has demonstrated the imaginative potential of intent segmentation scenarios through on-chain automated trading tools.

Unibot is a Telegram-based trading bot (TG Bot) that allows users to conduct automated DEX trading via Telegram, offering features such as sniper buying, copy trading, DEX limit orders, privacy, and anti-MEV. Unibot simplifies the interaction of Uniswap through Intent, providing a convenient DeFi experience. Unibot has also spawned a number of TG Bot clones, with the current total market cap 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 provides users with a new on-chain interaction interface, but it is not smart enough and has security risks.

The two paths leading to the same destination have a common purpose - to simplify the user interaction experience, introducing a new programmable and customizable user interaction interface - User Intent Layer ( 用户意图层 ), allowing users to bypass complex on-chain interactions and define transaction status based on intent.

02, AI is the new UI: Command Interaction vs Intent Interaction

Exploring the intentions behind it, AI's fundamental changes in the crypto world - the transformation of user interfaces.

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 interactive modes throughout history has produced entirely new business models. LLM-based generative AI has brought disruptive changes to human-computer interaction, directly transforming the original software UI interactions into interactions with the ChatGPT chat window, which is an unprecedented experience. LLM + crypto introduces a new proposition of intent-based interaction to the crypto world; LLM has the potential to make blockchain interactions smarter by discovering and describing user intentions.

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

Intent is not a new concept; it has existed since the Web2 era. With the rise of search engines like Google, users can input their intent, and the search engines provide relevant results to satisfy that intent.

With the rise of e-commerce platforms like Amazon and eBay, there has been a significant shift in intent-based architecture. Users can express their intent to purchase products, while the platform handles logistics. In early 2017, Gartner's report "Innovation Insight: Intent-Based Networking Systems" formally introduced 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 takes care of the business details.

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

In the evolution from Web2 to Web3, the concept of Web3 intentions is not clear, but there are some consensus:

• Paradigm Definition: Intent is a set of declarative constraints that allows 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 definition: Intent is the message sent by the user to express custom preferences, defining the constraints of what the system can do, rather than a specific execution path.
• Intent-based trading infrastructure defined by Propellerheads: Intent refers to the portion of a trade that requires assistance from others, simplifying complex trades by outsourcing the difficult parts to third parties.

In real use cases of intention-based trading on Web3, users create intentions off-chain, outsource to parsers off-chain, encapsulating the complexity of blockchain interactions while maintaining full control over the process on-chain, thereby reducing the threshold for on-chain interactions.

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

LLM+crypto brings a new paradigm of human-computer interaction, allowing user intentions to be directly translated into smart contract calls. Users only need to express their intentions like using Siri, while robots/AI Agents/third-party parsers assist in completing complex on-chain operations. The future of intent-based Web3 interaction intelligence has the potential to significantly reduce the complexity of user on-chain interactions.

AI is 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 architecture, they all release the potential of intent from different angles. We attempt to organize this rapidly evolving field, categorizing it into four major types from an interaction perspective, and tracking the latest status and trends:

Infrastructure ) Intent-Centric Intent Architecture Layer (:

• DappOS: The first intention-centric Web3 operating protocol, recently released version V2.
• Flash 2.0 SUAVE: An independent plug-and-play modular MEV full-chain sorting layer, planned to launch SUAVE Centauri in Q4 2023.
• Anoma: Intent-centric universal Dapp architecture, Namada is about to launch testnet v0.22.0
• Cow Protocol: Builds an underlying settlement network for traders and parsers, and released the new intent system Cow Hooks in July.

Supporting facilities ) related to intentions and related to account abstract wallets supporting infrastructure (:

• ERC 4337: User Operation represents the user's intent, achieving account abstraction and improving the wallet interaction experience.
• Account abstraction related supporting facilities: packager infrastructure, wallet SDK, etc.
• Intent-related supporting facilities: Juvix, Seaport, Gelato, okcontract, Delegatable, Hyper Oracle, symmio, etc.

Enterprise application ) integrated Dapp intention infrastructure, API, modular intention layer, specific domain parser (:

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

The intelligent interface for consumer applications ) user interaction includes wallets, DEX, Web3 AI Agents, and 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

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The intent-based architecture, supporting infrastructure, and enterprise applications attempt to solve the underlying challenges of intent realization, but infrastructure cannot be established overnight. The trend of intent consumer applications is what truly excites, as the evolution of interaction points such as wallets and DEX shows the potential for intelligent interactions.

Wallet Intelligence: ERC-4337 introduces a new user intent layer )UserOps(, where users express their intent, and the packager converts the intent into executable signed transactions. In recent months, the number of users of ERC4337 has increased significantly, with ZeroDev, Biconomy, and Safe modular smart accounts being the most motivated to drive AA+intent, which has the potential to foster wallet intelligence )SCW( in the future.

The shift in DEX architecture: Intent Based Trading ) aims to improve capital efficiency and user interaction experience. CoW Hooks link complex actions such as trading, bridging, staking, and deposits together, while UniswapX allows users to sign intent for off-chain matching and on-chain settlement. Similar intent-based DEXs like BananaHq, Brink, and basedmarkets are gradually increasing, and a new Intent-based RFQ narrative ( SYMMIO ) is unfolding. As more DEXs and aggregators transition to intent-based architecture, the DEX landscape is undergoing significant changes.

Intelligent Interactive Entry: Similar to the transformation of Web3 front-end interactive interfaces by TG Bot, the interactive entry focuses on understanding user intentions and systematically converting them into automated, actionable tasks. Not only TG Bot-like trading robots but also Web3 AI Agents and Web3 intelligent search engines are facilitating Web.