Let's walk into Anoma's intent-driven product design philosophy, ecological construction progress, and future roadmap.

Written by: Deep Tide TechFlow

On September 29, 2025, the intent-driven decentralized operating system Anoma officially launched its native token $XAN, simultaneously going live on Binance Alpha and Binance Futures, while the deployment of the Anoma mainnet officially commenced.

Before welcoming this series of important project milestones, Deep Tide TechFlow had an in-depth face-to-face conversation with Anoma co-founder Adrian Brink at the Korea Blockchain Week event.

In the bustling event venue, people could quickly spot Adrian, the founder who famously bought beer with ETH in 2016, with his red hair actively participating in roundtables, keynote speeches, and related interactions. Adrian smiled and said:

"We launched Shrimpers (Anoma's official NFT project), which is fun, unique, and visually appealing. We hope to better interact with the community through Shrimpers. I personally own a red-haired Shrimper, which has become my personal symbol."

When discussing Anoma's grand vision, Adrian, with his technical background, shared insights that were both rigorous and easy to understand:

"Since the launch of Ethereum, there has been no real innovation in the industry. The development of emerging applications requires more suitable infrastructure. Anoma is an intent-driven decentralized operating system that allows users and developers to interact seamlessly under different security models without being locked into a specific tech stack. We can liken Anoma to the Web3 version of Windows 95, supporting applications to run seamlessly across different chains, or the Web3 version of Linux, which is fully open-source, highly interoperable, and very user-friendly."

While at Korea Blockchain Week, Adrian also shared his emphasis on the Asian market, especially the Chinese-speaking market:

"Whether it's the public's attention to cryptocurrencies or the availability of development talent, China and Korea are leading. The Korean community tends to lean towards financial application scenarios, while the Chinese community focuses more on the developer ecosystem."

When discussing the focus of work after the TGE and mainnet launch, Adrian expressed high expectations, stating:

"We have shifted from discussing 'what is the underlying technology' to discussing 'what specific applications of intent exist.' In the future, Anoma will focus on the application layer, building truly attractive super applications for users. There will definitely be some very cool things coming in the next few months."

In this issue, let's follow Adrian's insights and delve into Anoma's intent-driven product design philosophy, ecological construction progress, and future roadmap.

Buying beer with ETH, bringing a "Windows 95" moment to Web3 with intent

Deep Tide TechFlow: It's great to have the opportunity for an in-depth conversation with you. Some Chinese-speaking users may not be familiar with your background, so could you please introduce yourself and share some of your past experiences and current responsibilities?

Adrian:

Hello everyone, I'm Adrian, and I'm glad to communicate with you.

I joined the crypto industry around 2016 when Ethereum was just starting to gain attention. My thesis topic was about how to implement censorship-resistant electronic voting using Ethereum. I bought some ETH and installed Trust Wallet when Ethereum was priced around $2. In college, I even bought beer with my ETH.

In 2017, I came across the Tendermint consensus algorithm and later became a core developer for Cosmos. I participated in the entire tech stack of Cosmos, including the Tendermint consensus layer and IBC cross-chain communication.

In 2019, I co-founded Cryptium Labs, one of the earliest companies focused on PoS validators when PoS was still a new concept. At our peak, we managed about $10 billion in assets.

By early 2021, I felt that the crypto industry was stagnating. Everything seemed similar, just different variants of virtual machines. This made me start thinking about what the industry truly needed, which ultimately led to the birth of Anoma.

Anoma focuses on creating an intent-driven design that allows users and developers to interact seamlessly under different security models. Essentially, Anoma is a distributed operating system where chains are no longer the focus, and users and developers can build and use applications anywhere.

Deep Tide TechFlow: If you had to describe what Anoma is doing in one or two sentences, how would you say it? Can you provide a vivid example to illustrate what Anoma does?

Adrian:

Anoma is a Web3 distributed operating system where applications that users love can run seamlessly across different chains, regardless of where they are hosted.

We can think of Anoma as Windows 95: whether the underlying hardware is an Intel CPU or an AMD CPU, software like Microsoft Word can run "out of the box." Similarly, Anoma allows your applications to run wherever the operating system exists.

I use the Windows example because it's more widely known, but Anoma is actually fully open-source and closer to an early version of Linux, with a greater emphasis on usability. Early Linux was very difficult for most people to use, while Windows struck a balance between openness and usability, which is also our goal with Anoma.

Deep Tide TechFlow: Although discussions about Anoma have increased recently in the Chinese-speaking community, I understand that Anoma has been a project in development for several years. Can you tell us the story of Anoma from its founding to today? What was the original intention behind Anoma?

Adrian:

The birth of Anoma stemmed from our realization about the industry: since the launch of Ethereum, there has been no real innovation. While projects like Solana have made some improvements, fundamentally, Solana and Ethereum are very similar, still being a sequentially executed virtual machine. When we look back at the entire industry, we realize that while the focus has been on the development of applications, there is a lack of the infrastructure needed to support that development.

One major discovery we made is:

Users have "intent," not just transactions. For example, if you want to make a trade, you can't directly create an immediately executable transaction on Ethereum. You can only perform partial actions and need to find a counterparty to complete it. This led us to the design concept based on "intent," which became the foundation of Anoma.

Ultimately, Anoma was born because we realized that no one was building the infrastructure needed to support these emerging applications. We wanted to create a system that helps developers build applications in a more flexible way, allowing them to operate across different trust models and chains.

Deep Tide TechFlow: Can you share more about the Anoma ecosystem and introduce some system partners that you are particularly optimistic about?

Adrian:

Anoma is an open ecosystem where users can choose the components that suit them without being locked into the entire tech stack. This makes it a very attractive place for developers. For example, Anoma applications can run on Ethereum while still leveraging the flexibility and openness of the Anoma system.

One area of ecological construction that I'm particularly excited about is stablecoins and payments. We are collaborating with teams like Noble and Anoma Pay to build a seamless ecosystem that allows ordinary users to make stablecoin payments while focusing on the security models they trust. This is crucial for making cryptocurrencies more mainstream.

We are also working on more complex integrations, such as liquidity fragmentation across different networks. Currently, liquidity is fragmented between Ethereum, Solana, and various Rollups. We are collaborating with multiple teams to address this issue, although I can't reveal too many details right now, but there will definitely be some very cool things coming in the next few months.

Deep Tide TechFlow: The recent increase in user discussions is also related to the launch of the Shrimpers NFT. Can you share the vision behind launching the NFT?

Adrian:

To be honest, I'm not very familiar with NFTs, especially the part about physical art. But regarding the launch of Shrimpers, we just wanted to create something fun and unique. I like Shrimpers not because they have any specific functionality, but because I think they look great. It's a fantastic way to interact with the community and bring a light-hearted atmosphere.

The Shrimp NFT aims to provide everyone with a simple and enjoyable way to connect with others in the ecosystem. As for me personally, I own a red-haired Shrimper, which is also a fun tribute to my personal style. During the 2017 Blockchain Week in San Francisco, I was remembered for a red jacket, and over the years, red has become my signature color. Now my red-haired Shrimper has become one of my personal symbols.

China and Korea are at the forefront of crypto, especially the Chinese developer community

Deep Tide TechFlow: We see that Anoma's rewards for Kaito Yapper have a separate focus on the Chinese and Korean communities. What characteristics do you think the Chinese and Korean markets have? Are there any differentiated strategies for operations or growth in these two communities?

Adrian:

When I researched the market adoption curves, I found that both in terms of public interest in cryptocurrencies and the availability of development talent, China and Korea are leading. At the same time, when I think about which countries are truly driving the development of crypto through large-scale construction, China and Korea often come to mind.

Personally, I really like these two countries, and I enjoyed my wonderful time in Shanghai and Seoul, which is one of the reasons I tend to focus on these two places.

A third aspect, more specifically, is that we are starting to see a large influx of developers in both the Chinese and Korean markets, which is why I emphasize the importance of these two markets.

Deep Tide TechFlow: In your view, what are the differences between the Chinese community and the Korean community?

Adrian:

I think the differences are subtle. The Korean community tends to lean towards financial application scenarios, while the Chinese community focuses more on the developer ecosystem. This is not a strict black-and-white distinction, but if I had to point out a difference, it would be this.

I am very familiar with the Nervos team; they built a blockchain early on, and the team was based in Hangzhou at that time. Therefore, many excellent Chinese developers I know come from Hangzhou.

I have always been a fan of China, especially the Chinese developer community. My connection with China dates back to the early days of Cosmos when I spent a lot of time in Shanghai. The developer ecosystem in China, especially in places like Hangzhou, has left a deep impression on me.

When I think about the role Anoma can play in China, I believe our visions are aligned. Unlike the global trust model of the Ethereum community, I think different regions should have dedicated chains, such as a "Swiss chain" or a "Chinese chain." For many users, a more suitable trust model is often local, relying on their government or region. I am not a decentralized extremist; I just hope the system can integrate seamlessly, allowing applications to operate normally across various trust models.

Deep Tide TechFlow: AI is very popular in China, and many Chinese AI companies are based in Hangzhou.

Adrian:

I think Anoma is particularly worth paying attention to in this context.

While I am not yet sure how the intersection of blockchain and AI will evolve, I am almost certain that Anoma will play an important role in it.

The core of this perspective is that when I think about user interactions, everyone may have thousands of AI agents, some of which run on local phones, which raises a key question: how do these agents communicate with each other?

They need "intents" to avoid being bound to a specific chain and require a mechanism to distribute, coordinate, and settle these intents.

The solution we envision is: I input a request to a local AI agent (for example, built by DeepSeek) on my phone, and this AI agent transforms my request into structured intents and presents them to me for confirmation that they meet my needs; subsequently, my AI agent collaborates with other agents using the intents and Anoma's open-source framework to identify intersections, matches, and solvable problems, assembling a solution and notifying me, for example, "I found a suitable flight + hotel combination for you; are you satisfied?" After my confirmation, these intents will be aggregated and executed on the network.

I believe there will be very attractive intersections between blockchain and AI, especially at the end-user level. If every user ultimately has thousands of AI agents, then with today's infrastructure, we cannot achieve efficient collaboration between different AI agents, such as having 1,000 agents from DeepSeek efficiently collaborate with 1,000 agents from ChatGPT. We need an open-source framework that allows them to truly interact and coordinate, and Anoma is built for this purpose.

Upgrading Web2 financial infrastructure with intent will bring true adoption

Deep Tide TechFlow: Recently, AI, RWA, and other directions have become quite popular. From an ecological perspective, does Anoma expect certain specific tracks to be built? Will there be support plans for the ecosystem in the future?

Adrian:

If you want to build applications on Anoma, feel free to contact me on Telegram, and we can discuss how to provide you with the most suitable support.

Regarding the topics of RWA and AI, what excites me right now is that most people are still stuck in the "pre-intents" stage. While some are starting to design dedicated intent solutions for specific trading scenarios, in AI-driven RWA applications, we need thousands of general intents, but currently, there is almost no infrastructure to support all of this.

Anoma is currently the only place where you can start building on an open, intent-native infrastructure, whether you are working on AI or RWA applications.

I don't have a preference for a specific RWA team, but there are indeed a few teams that are quite interesting. RWA is strongly correlated with local markets. For example, if you want to tokenize Chinese stocks, the team will almost certainly be in Hong Kong; if it's about tokenizing American stocks, the team will likely be in the U.S. The challenge lies in how to connect these globally. We need to build multiple trust models so that users can handle tokenized Chinese and American stocks within a single application.

This is precisely where Anoma's advantage lies: providing good support for such applications and scenarios.

When I think about what Anoma is doing, I am excited about our development: today's financial systems are still built on technologies from the 1960s to 1980s, designed for an era when the internet was not yet widely adopted, user numbers had not exploded, and attacks were limited. This system is now outdated.

Anoma is rebuilding the financial collaboration layer: providing a modern collaborative infrastructure that allows banks, nations, and communities to build their own financial systems based on it. In this sense, Anoma's open-source tech stack is the ideal path to upgrade outdated financial systems to a new era. As the internet scales larger, we need a more robust financial collaborative infrastructure, and Anoma is the perfect solution.

I am particularly excited about the adoption of enterprises, especially Web2 companies, because in my view, no company would trust a global Ethereum network to protect its system; they would prefer to maintain their sovereign infrastructure. Anoma is built for this purpose; you can deploy Anoma internally within your company and decide which data and interoperability capabilities to make public. Once you start sharing some information, many applications can not only connect to your sovereign stack but also link to the global Anoma network and even applications on Ethereum, achieving global collaboration, allowing users to switch seamlessly between local, enterprise, and global infrastructures. For example, if you are a bank wanting to support users depositing ETH, you currently need to customize integration with Ethereum. In the future, you can directly integrate Anoma, running a local instance of Anoma within your bank, allowing users to deposit ETH into your local Anoma instance.

This is what excites me the most because I believe that upgrading the outdated infrastructure used by Web2 companies and existing financial systems will lead to true adoption, and Anoma's technology will play a key role in this transformation.

Deep Tide TechFlow: From a public perspective, we can understand Anoma as something similar to Linux, or as "intent infrastructure."

Adrian:

Yes, the analogy with Linux is very apt. Linux has strong interoperability: it has a core kernel on which very specialized systems can be built. Anoma provides similar capabilities: while maintaining interoperability, you can customize and specialize Anoma according to your application needs.

Deep Tide TechFlow: I understand that Intent is an important keyword for Anoma. In my impression, there was more discussion about Intent at the beginning of last year, and now it has shifted to AI, RWA, and Stablecoins. Do you think Intent will be widely discussed again in the future? Will the development of AI promote discussions about Intent?

Adrian:

I believe so. Last year, we were more focused on discussing the underlying infrastructure of intent. If you want to scale AI or other scenarios, you actually need intent. I believe we have now shifted from discussing "what is the underlying technology" to "what specific applications of intent exist." We will focus on the application layer and build more and more applications.

I believe that most applications in the future will use intent, and discussions about intent may shift from conceptual definitions to those applications empowered by intent.

Deep Tide TechFlow: So, do you also believe that AI will accelerate the development of intent?

Adrian:

Yes, because currently, we are still very limited in our capabilities supported by cryptocurrencies. If all transactions must be settled through some form of global consensus, then your applications will face high latency and high costs. However, through intent and Anoma, you can achieve processing 50 transactions per second, which is currently unfeasible. Therefore, I believe this makes previously impossible applications possible.

Building truly attractive super applications

Deep Tide TechFlow: Anoma recently announced the $XAN token model, which is a very important event. After the token TGE, what areas will the team's focus shift to?

Adrian:

Our main focus area, which we have consistently pursued, is to continue building core infrastructure.

After the TGE, we will shift a significant portion of our energy towards building vertically integrated applications that allow end users to truly use user-friendly products. We have been talking about "applications are important" in the crypto space for many years, but we have lacked sufficiently mature underlying infrastructure to support a truly good application experience. With the emergence of Anoma, this is finally changing.

In the future, we will focus more on end users, and we will strive to create truly attractive applications, including user-friendly payment applications, trading applications, RWA applications, and possibly even a "super application" that integrates all these capabilities.

Our core vision has always been simple and direct: I want to have a local chatbot on my phone that provides a conversational experience like Telegram or WeChat. For example, I send a message to the local chatbot saying, "Help me find the best yield opportunities," and after some local calculations, it presents me with a set of intents for me to review and confirm. Then the bot will help me find the optimal execution plan. This is what excites me: building more truly useful applications.

Deep Tide TechFlow: From your sharing, Anoma will be a very large ecosystem, so developers are very important. What specific measures do you have to attract developers?

Adrian:

Currently, we have not launched specific incentive programs because once incentives are clearly defined, it tends to attract a lot of spam from those chasing rewards, which not only increases junk information but also makes management very difficult.

For developers, we welcome everyone to visit Anoma's GitHub: if you start building and encounter issues, feel free to contact us, and we will provide assistance.

In the future, we are likely to launch incentive programs, but the problem is that once specific incentives are announced, everyone rushes in, resulting in a lot of junk. I prefer to focus my energy on developers who genuinely want to do things and build real applications. So currently, there are no specific incentives. But if you have a cool project, please feel free to reach out.

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