Behind the Explosion of TG Bot: Intentional Trading is Opening 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

( Navigation Intent: The evolution of the concept of Intent, interaction paradigms, current status and trends

) Guidance Intent: Challenges and Prospects of Intelligent Web3 Interaction

In June, the Paradigm official website published an article titled "Intent-Based Architectures and Their Risks," which introduced the concept of Intent( to the public for the first time. The development of intent-related protocols and infrastructure has been rapid, and it became a hot topic in the crypto world at the ETHCC conference in July.

Intent is not a new concept. As Mindao, the founder of DForce, stated: the trend in the cryptocurrency world has always been to abstract and automate operations to the extreme, with aggregators, centralized exchanges, contract wallets, cross-chain DeFi all doing this work, along with Chainlink and the recent automated middleware, as well as Telegram bots.

Intent to bring new changes, in the past focusing on product interaction, in the AGI era focusing on human-computer interaction, AI/LLM) large language models( contain more potential for enhanced encrypted interaction.

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01, Top-Down Anoma and Bottom-Up Unibot

In the past six months, relevant agreements, projects, and infrastructure have been booming one after another. Here, we can get a glimpse of the situation through two examples.

The most notable project related to intent is the Anoma Foundation, which completed a $25 million Series C financing at the end of May 2023. Against the backdrop of severe homogenization in Layer 1, the Anoma Foundation, with its intent-centric ) architecture, has raised a total of $57.8 million in three rounds of funding, ranking 7th among Layer 1/Layer 2 financing amounts that have not yet issued tokens, including the Anoma ( Dapp full-stack architecture ) and Namada ( privacy Layer 1).

Recalling Anoma's public speech at EthCC, founder Adrian Brink stated that Anoma's uniqueness lies in: all interactions begin with intent, where users express intent through the Black-box Architecture ( Anoma black box architecture, also known as Magic Happens ), which processes it to realize the core transaction process based on intent interactions:

• 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 Anoma black box architecture collects intents, performs balance state transitions, and achieves counterpart matching.
• Transaction Processing: Matched transactions are submitted to the encrypted mempool, and validators send the blocks packaged by proposers to the execution layer, completing execution and verifying validity, and ultimately completing the state root update.

The Anoma team has identified the underlying pain points of blockchain protocols, reviewing how the architectural limitations from the first generation of Bitcoin's scriptable settlement to the second generation of Ethereum's programmable settlement have resulted in current application protocols having at least one Web2 component, which cannot achieve counterparty discovery and resolution. The team states that the intention-centric Anoma architecture is the third generation Dapp architecture in the evolution of blockchain protocols, allowing users to define the desired outcome state and achieving efficient and customizable privacy transactions at the intent level. The intention-centric Dapp architecture will usher in a new era.

Anoma, with high financing and a new technological architecture, is currently being built by a 37-member interdisciplinary team from the Heliax development team. Although the Heliax development team has progressed slowly over the two years of development, a complete innovative ecosystem has already formed:

• Anoma: A general Dapp architecture centered around intentions, which can be modularly deployed to L1, L1.5, L2, and can be embedded into various EVM frameworks for invocation using modular components.
• Namada: A Layer 1 privacy settlement of the Anoma ecosystem, using PoS mechanism and designed for asset-agnostic cross-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 Typhon consensus based on Cosmos's Tendermint;
• Taiga: Provides a composable privacy unified execution environment. Taiga defines three types of intents: transparent intent, shielded intent, and privacy intent.

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Although institutions like CMCC Global, Electric Capital, and Delphi Digital are heavily promoting Anoma, stating that its intent-centered architecture has limitless future potential, currently, the top-down Anoma has only established a solid technical foundation, and we have yet to see exciting real-world applications; meanwhile, TG Bot has opened up the imaginative possibilities for intent-specific scenarios with its on-chain automated trading tools.

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

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

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

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

The two use cases above provide a basic understanding of intent. Next, we will explore the changes behind that intent—specifically, the changes in user interaction interfaces brought about by AI in the underlying layer of the crypto world.

The AI paradigm is introducing the third user interface paradigm in the history of computers, shifting towards new interaction mechanisms 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 Result Specification.

Every revolution in interaction modes in history has generated new business models. LLM-based generative AI brings disruptive changes to human-computer interaction, directly transforming the existing human-computer interaction with various software UIs into interaction with the Chatgpt chat window, which is an unprecedented interactive experience. LLM+crypto introduces a new proposition of intent-based interaction to the crypto world, and LLM will also make blockchain interaction potentially smarter by discovering and describing user intentions.

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

After a deep understanding of the AI intelligent trend 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 search engines provide relevant search results to satisfy those intentions.

With the rise of e-commerce platforms such as 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 takes care of logistics. In early 2017, Gartner released a report titled "Innovation Insight: Intent-Based Networking Systems" which formally introduced the concept of Intent-based Networking). The key to intent-based networking( is to present users with an interface where they only need to express what they want, while the platform handles the business details.

Intent-based networking is the development 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.

The evolution from Web2 to Web3 has led to a concept of intention in Web3 that is actually not clear, but there are some consensuses:

• The definition provided by Paradigm: 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.
• The definition provided by the intent-based underlying Dapp architecture Anoma: Intent is the 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.
• Definition provided by the intent-based trading infrastructure Propellerheads: Intent is the part of the transaction that requires help from others, and intent simplifies complex transactions by outsourcing the difficult parts to third parties.

In real use cases of intent-based transactions in Web3, users create intents off-chain, outsource them to the Solver) parser( off-chain, encapsulating the complexity of blockchain interactions for the parser while retaining complete control over the process on-chain for the user, thereby lowering the threshold for on-chain interactions.

The intent also brings the LLM architectural concept - intent centric - an architecture centered around user intent. Currently, cryptographic 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, allowing users' intentions to be directly converted into smart contract calls. Users only need to express their intentions as they would with Apple's Siri, while robots/AI Agents/third-party parsers help complete complex on-chain operations. The future of intention-based Web3 interaction is intelligent and has the potential to significantly reduce the complexity of user on-chain interactions.

AI is the New UI. More and more Web3 projects are exploring the magic of intent. Whether it is intent-based Dapps or intent-based underlying architectures, they all unleash 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, while tracking the latest status and trends.

Infrastructure: ) intent-centric intent architecture layer (

• DappOS: The first intent-centric Web3 operating protocol that builds a middleware layer between users and public chains, cross-chain bridges, and other crypto infrastructure, allowing Web3 users to interact with products seamlessly and effortlessly. Recently, DappOS released its V2 version;
• Flash 2.0 SUAVE: SUAVE is an independent plug-and-play modular MEV full-chain sorting layer. Preferences ) SUAVE's core concept ( is similar to the Intent concept, both providing ordinary users with a way to customize their trades, ultimately helping users achieve the best execution. Flashbots plans to launch SUAVE Centauri in Q4 2023.
• Anoma: A general Dapp architecture centered around intent, which can be modularly deployed to L1, L1.5, and L2, and can be embedded into various EVM frameworks using modular components. The latest update from the Anoma ecosystem is that the Anoma privacy settlement Layer 1 — Namada is set to launch the v0.22.0 testnet soon.
• Cow Protocol: CoW Protocol builds an underlying settlement network for traders and solvers, and launched the new Cow Hooks intent system in July to enable custom DeFi operations. In August, CoW Protocol processed a total trading volume of $1.05 billion and generated a profit of $5.3 million.

Supporting facilities: ) related to intent, and supporting infrastructure related to account abstraction wallets (

• ERC 4337: The User Operation of ERC 4337 represents the user's intent, including the token for paying gas, payment options, and login methods, replacing the current transaction memory pool to achieve account abstraction and improve wallet interaction experience.
• Supporting facilities related to account abstraction: packaging infrastructure ) StackUp, Blocknative, Alchemy Rundler, AA-Bundler, infinitism Bundler (, wallet SDK ) Safe, ZeroDev, Biconomy (;
• Facilities related to intent: Juvix), an intent-based programming language(; Seaport), an open-source NFT trading protocol(; Gelato), a Web3 automated execution layer that provides automation services for smart contracts(; okcontract), a low-level intent automation tool(; Delegatable), a smart contract delegation proxy tool(; Hyper Oracle), off-chain automation services(; symmio), an intent-based on-chain derivatives trading framework(.

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