Author of the viewpoint: Adrian Brink, Co-founder of Anoma
Web3 is built on decentralization, sovereignty, verifiability, and resilience. Now, these values are under threat. The rise of AI agents is beneficial and inevitable. Unless agents are built on a sovereignty-centered infrastructure of intent, they will threaten the core values of cryptocurrency.
The integration of intent is no longer just about improving user experience; it is about enabling agents to reach their full potential without sacrificing the soul of Web3.
AI agents can help make blockchain interactions seamless and intuitive, but the existing agents pose serious security concerns and are inconsistent with Web3 values. Today's agents are based on black-box large language models (LLMs) that are unverifiable and prone to hallucinations. This is a dangerous combination when managing sensitive financial data.
Agents are built on centralized infrastructure, executing systems that are opaque, with no control over user privacy or data sovereignty. They operate on closed-source algorithms from companies like IBM and OpenAI. This trend will replicate the power dynamics of Web2 throughout the crypto ecosystem.
However, by integrating agents with intent-centered systems, we can ensure that users have complete control over their data and assets.
Intent is a building block of decentralized applications, allowing users to have full control over their transaction outcomes. Supported by a decentralized network of solvers—i.e., competing agent nodes that resolve user transactions—these systems eliminate the complexity of the blockchain experience while maintaining user sovereignty and privacy.
Intent-based systems achieve all the user experience advantages of AI agents while preserving user sovereignty and ensuring their expected outcomes.
Without intent, AI agents also bring serious centralization concerns. As agent-based solutions become more popular, the risks of centralization and market consolidation are high.
Without a competitive, decentralized agent market—where individual agents compete for user activity—we face the danger of specific LLMs becoming centralized monopolies and taking over all order flow.
Intent-based infrastructure can enable a decentralized, interoperable agent market, preventing a super agent from taking over everything. In these systems, agents can communicate, specialize in certain types of transactions, share order flow, compete to meet user needs, and most importantly, be accountable for outcomes.
In addition to ensuring privacy, decentralization, and verifiability, intent will also help agents realize their full potential. While the current generation of agents is largely isolated, intent can serve as the language for agent communication and interoperability. Communication between agents through intent is necessary for agents to trade with each other and execute more complex multi-step operations for users.
In particular, through universal intent, agents become more powerful, capable of addressing any user request, including complex multi-step operations and cross-chain transactions. This opens the door to new types of applications that can extend decentralized finance (DeFi) beyond the services that exist today and have user experience advantages that allow Web3 to compete with Web2 experiences.
Combining AI agents and intent will redefine the Web3 experience while keeping the field true to its core values. Intent connects users and agents, ensuring that users receive the expected user experience advantages from AI while maintaining decentralization, sovereignty, and verifiability. Intent-based systems will play a key role in the next phase of Web3 evolution by ensuring that agents act in the best interests of users.
As AI adoption grows, the risk of replicating Web2 issues in Web3 is also increasing. Intent-centered infrastructure is key to addressing the challenges and opportunities presented by AI agents and is necessary to unlock their full potential. Intent will be an essential infrastructure component and a fundamental requirement for anyone integrating or considering integrating AI into DeFi.
Intent is not just a user experience upgrade or an optional enhancement. It is the key infrastructure to ensure that AI serves users rather than existing power structures. The sooner the industry adopts them, the greater the opportunity to maintain a decentralized and open future.
Author of the viewpoint: Adrian Brink, Co-founder of Anoma.
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