If you were to redesign the entire Web3 application architecture today—where would you start? The answer given by @anoma is: start from "intent," which means starting from the real needs of users, rather than focusing first on frontend pages, contract calls, and other technical details. The so-called intent-centric architecture, in simple terms, prioritizes "what the user wants" as the primary requirement, no longer hidden parameters behind buttons, but rather the center of the entire system's operation. Users only need to describe "what I want to do," and the rest—matching, conditional constraints, counterparty searches, and final delivery—will all be automatically coordinated by the system. For example, if I say: "I want to exchange 100 stETH for an equivalent amount of RWA assets, ensuring the best cost-effectiveness, and complete it within today." If I were to do this myself, I would either find aggregators for routing or place orders in multiple pools, compare, and wait for transactions to complete, and it might not even be successful. However, in an intent-centric system, this requirement would be deconstructed into clear intentions, broadcasted out, allowing capable solvers to handle and settle it. Anoma breaks this system down into four main modules: 1⃣ Intent: User's wishes and constraints 2⃣ Counterparty Discovery: Finding a matching counterpart 3⃣ Solving: Finding the optimal solution 4⃣ Settlement: Final delivery and on-chain completion These four components essentially form the minimal common factor for future applications. Many complex DApps you are familiar with, such as OpenSea, Gitcoin, and CoWSwap, ultimately operate around these actions. It's just that traditional architectures make this process cumbersome and fragmented, leading to inconsistent user experiences and high development difficulties. The benefit of an intent-centric approach is that it abstracts and standardizes everything. Most importantly, it inherently possesses decentralized attributes. In Anoma's design, solvers and settlements are on an open network, where anyone can participate in fulfilling intents, not a centralized router, nor a default preset "only path." And this is just the beginning; Anoma will later discuss identity, data flow control, and other more fundamental aspects. The entire intent architecture may be the gateway to the "post-smart contract era." I personally have high hopes for the intent-centric architecture, and I even believe it has the potential to redefine the structure of on-chain applications, much like the "account model" and "EVM" did back in the day.