Adrian Brink is the CEO of Anoma. @ AdrianBrink had read through most of the public speeches, white papers, and papers published at that time. The main reason is that there is little research on intent, and I came into contact with this concept early, but there is not much research around its products and research. @ anoma is one of the few communities on the Internet that has done in-depth theoretical research and practice on intent, so I am interested in in-depth research. Additionally, it is possible that the origin of his intent may not be as analyzed in the 23 year old tweets that I reposted. But that doesn't prevent me from continuing to read his paper curiously. Today, I will first extract his first paper Anomaly: Undefined Money - A Diverse Commitment to Value Coordination refers to the collective planning of actions by agents through information transmission, in order to achieve mutual benefits and maintain social sustainability, requiring a medium suitable for the context (such as currency). Currency promotes economic coordination, but one-dimensional simplification may lead to competitive divergence and threaten survival. This article focuses on the essence of coordination, analyzes the failure modes of currency, language, and law, proposes the Anoma protocol, achieves large-scale coordination without a single accounting unit through multivariate value expression, and plans to explore its technical implementation. Interpretation: At the beginning of the paper, we first talked about what coordination is. It was the first time I saw someone describe a problem around the abstract point of coordination. But the first paper is still quite dry, so it basically establishes an abstract concept of coordination and a definition of real-world coordination problems. You bought coffee and energy bars in the morning, choosing the cheapest hazelnut toffee bars and fair trade Brazilian medium roasted coffee, but unintentionally supported deforestation and soil destruction. The puzzle game purchased during lunch break, with a portion of the price flowing into Google, has funded research on privacy eroding street view cars and advertisements. Your job helps the company earn profits from mattress sales, some of which are used for subway advertising, indirectly making you purchase games to avoid advertising. Currency as an intermediary fails to reflect your values, and purchasing behavior leads to negative impacts such as forest destruction, soil depletion, and 'surveillance capitalism'. Is this phenomenon an isolated exception or a systemic problem? Interpretation: Mainly talk about the problems in real economic activities Distributed ledger technology provides programmable and anti capture interactive mechanisms, such as currency transfer, but its core issues need to be examined from basic principles rather than being limited by existing laws and capitalist frameworks. Currency exists to coordinate economic activities, but the dialectical path of blockchain development often focuses on internal mechanisms and ignores external coordination needs. As a coordinating language, the effectiveness of a protocol depends on whether it provides appropriate addressing mechanisms. The evolutionary progress of blockchain is driven by short-term profits and is difficult to naturally converge to solutions to coordination problems. It requires direct exploration of design space, clarification of requirements, and evaluation of specific protocols. Interpretation: The existing blockchain ledger has problems with coordination issues and requires new protocols to solve coordination problems The conceptual framework of daily life and economic interaction is closely related to the Westphalian nation-state paradigm, such as the concept of "transparency" relying on the power structure of legal enforcement. Law is only a form of coordination, and if existing ideological concepts are analyzed and introduced, they may not be applicable to different superstructures. This article explores the possibility of designing a coordination mechanism to overcome the shortcomings of currency and legal contracts and promote large-scale interaction. It is necessary to construct a suitable superstructure from scratch, analyze its applicability, and avoid introducing existing conceptual frameworks incorrectly. Interpretation: This article aims to explore a new coordination mechanism to overcome the shortcomings of currency and legal contracts and promote large-scale economic interaction, in order to address the existing problems in the existing legal and coordination mechanisms This article identifies the root causes of dystopian problems, removes ideological entanglements, transforms them into descriptions of coordination problems and solution requirements, and proposes and evaluates specific protocols. Divided into three parts: exploring the essence, mechanism, and attributes of coordination, analyzing its situational dependence, and proposing methods for evaluating suitability. Focus on specific coordination issues, analyze the reasons for existing mechanism failures, list requirements for correcting problems as evaluation criteria. Propose the Anoma protocol, describe its components and structure, verify whether it meets the requirements, analyze the approximation under computational constraints, and summarize future research directions. Interpretation: The paper will elucidate the description and definition of coordination problems, as well as solutions and specific protocol implementations. What is coordination? Coordination refers to the collective planning of actions by multiple participants through information transmission and binding commitments to achieve common goals, such as moving stones, hunting, building schools, or landing on the moon. The coordination mechanism needs to reflect the interdependence and expected content of the participants, otherwise it will lead to the failure of differences. Coordination is similar to the manifestation of personality at the group level, and preference choices are arbitrary. Coordination example: Deep sea diver: coordinates actions through gestures, transmitting photography, ventilation, or danger signals. DotA game: Players use computers to calculate complex rules, share action information, and ensure consistency; Internal voice/text communication strategy within the team, forming concise terminology. Tribal voting: conveying preferences through voting, promising to act according to results, and maintaining unity; Pre consideration is crucial, but the voting options are limited. Supply chain: Transmitting demand information through currency to guide production, but consumers can only choose from existing options and lack symmetrical deliberation. Internal and External: Coordination requires communication between different agents, as their internal ideas and motivations are not transparent. Divers use gestures to avoid collisions, DotA players discuss skills for collaborative combat, and tribe members express voting commitments to maintain unity. Information is conveyed from the internal state to the external through physical media such as gestures, text, and voice, and is perceived and interpreted by other participants as internal state information to achieve coordination. Information transmission: Coordination requires the use of contextually appropriate media to convey information, such as language by workers, gestures by hunters, and text by communities. Media must match specific situations: gestures are insufficient to coordinate complex school construction, and text is useless for hunting. Language progress promotes more complex coordination, and the adaptability of media determines the effectiveness of coordination. Coordination enables individuals to achieve goals that cannot be achieved solely on their own: divers work together to lift heavy objects, DotA teams collaborate in combat, and tribal members support each other for survival. Coordination requires choosing to participate, bringing benefits beyond the operating costs of the mechanism (such as energy consumption of gestures and language), and forming a stable equilibrium. But in this equilibrium, complex media (such as language compared to currency, voting) allow for more subtle expressions, support switching to better coordination methods, and explore broader action spaces. Coordination needs to be achieved through mechanisms, which are physical media between agents used to express preferences and intentions for communication. The agent needs to reach consensus on the internal state (related to future actions), but as the internal state cannot be directly accessed, it needs to be expressed in physical form, and there are constraints between state and form. The suitability of the mechanism depends on the specific coordination context. Coordination needs to be achieved through mechanisms, which are physical media between agents used to express preferences and intentions for communication. The agent needs to reach consensus on the internal state (related to future actions), but as the internal state cannot be directly accessed, it needs to be expressed through physical forms (such as gestures, voice, text, currency), and there are constraints between state and form. The suitability of the mechanism depends on the coordination context. Facilitate agreement: Agents communicate internal states (such as plans, preferences) through physical forms (such as gestures, voice, written plans, currency) to collaborate in action. Currency expresses exchange intentions and preferences through buying and selling, but its expressive power is limited, only supporting binary choices and unable to convey complex or non-linear preferences. Interpretation: Describe what coordination is Anoma Protocol Simplified Version Anoma Overview: Anoma is a decentralized ledger that allows participants to express preferences through validity predicates (programs that describe preferences), negotiate resource allocation, and achieve state changes that are compatible with combined preferences. Core function: Sort by time: Adopting BFT consensus mechanism, event history is segmented through blocks and transactions, and participants run the same state machine to ensure consistent states. Numerical preference expression: Participants write validity predicates to define action conditions, off chain intent supports rapid preference changes, and expiration mechanisms ensure preference updates. Counterparty discovery: Intention gossip system spreads participant intentions, matchmaker nodes aggregate compatible intentions, generate transactions and settle. Pareto optimal settlement: supports atomic multi-party transactions, executed only when all members agree, ensuring Pareto optimality. Privacy and Transparency: Transaction content privacy, rule set publicly verified through zero knowledge proof. Attribute instantiation: Preference expression: Validity predicates and off chain intents support dynamic and complex preference expression. Economic internalization: internalizing economic structures through protocols, transparently calculating the impact of boundary actions (such as purchases), and supporting negotiation of environmental preferences. Computing outsourcing: Nodes compute state transitions that match preferences, reducing the burden on users. Pareto efficient settlement: Atomic settlement ensures efficient implementation of multiple preferences. Xie Lin binding: The consensus mechanism forms Xie Lin points, motivating participants to join the unified economic system. Interdependence reflection: Fractal instantiation reflects local or cross community economic dependence. System mobility: initially compatible with currency, reducing currency dependence in the long run, supporting privacy payments and public goods fund flow. Semantic expression: Oracle problem: requires external trusted parties or Schelling point games to provide real-world data. Interpretation: This mainly elaborates on the design of the mechanism for solving coordination problems, namely the Anoma protocol. There is actually no further research on the system architecture design details of the entire Anoma protocol here. In another paper, a more detailed description was provided. In fact, this paper mainly elaborates on the coordination issues in reality, case studies, and the framework for how to solve them through the Anoma protocol. For more information on system architecture, please refer to the paper Anomala: a unified architecture for fully stack decentralized applications.