Intents, Privacy, and Building th...
Intents, Privacy, and Building the Anoma OS with Apriori
The Endofunctor by The Endofunctor
S1 · E8
Sep 12, 2025
01:44:51
Episode notes

🎙️ 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 ... 

Keywords
Monad
Technology
Blockchain
Crypto
Web3
L1
Infrustructure
Defi
Liquid Staking
LST
EVM
FastLane
MEV
MEV Protection
Application Specific Sequencing