Intents, Privacy, and Building the Anoma OS with Apriori

🎙️ Exploring Anoma, where intents guide the system and users choose what to reveal.

What if a blockchain worked more like an operating system than a ledger? And what if instead of submitting transactions you could simply express your intent and let the network figure out how to make it happen?

In this episode of The Endofunctor, host Alex Watt sits down with Apriori (Patrick) from Anoma to explore a project that is trying to rebuild crypto infrastructure from the ground up. The conversation traces the origins of Anoma and the design of an intent based system that puts privacy and composability at its core.

Patrick explains why Anoma talks about “shielded computation” rather than privacy, how programmable disclosure lets users decide what to reveal and when, and why building the right developer and user experien ...