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Joined on Apr 26, 2023

  • (and everything in between) Apriori Overview Anoma from first principles Intent Machines & Operating Systems Anoma Applications are not real (virtual) Anoma from first Principles
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  • The ideas herein have been lossely titled "shielded actions" make for very interesting hackathon projects once we are live and past the first couple governance phases. If this is technically feasible I'd also something like to craft a post on the Namada forums for the community to digest. Lets imagine that namada is live and so is the ethereum bridge. In the basic setup, Alice has 10 ETH in the shielded pool. Alice wants to unshield her 10 eth and then send here eth to a particular address on Ethereum. Instead of sending to an address, can you send the ETH to an address controlled by a specific actor who agress to do some action with the ETH on Alice's behalf for a fee ofc and then send Alice the new balance of tokens back to Namada or just send the tokens to a particular account controlled by Alice. More concretely, I'm thinking about how we could integrate Namada with UniswapX, 1inch, or Cow Swap. All these protocols rely on off-chain "Solvers" to source liquidity for users. They basically act as market makers. Some use their own private liquidity as they are trading shops, others are good at optimizing on-chain routes and coincidence of wants better than others, and some a combination of both. The solvers have to bid for the user's order its usually a dutch auction parameterized or started with an RFQ.
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  • There will be many individual fractals of which we can say "this is Anoma." What do we mean by the word Anoma? Obviously, something different for each particular fractal instance of Anoma. A fractal is Anoma because it runs a common protocol general to all fractal instances. Language cannot be an effective substrate for communication without general words for things like Anoma, and such words therefore are not meaningless. But if the word Anoma means anything, it means something that is not this or that Anoma, but some kind of universal Anomaness. This is not born to exist when some new Anoma fractal is launched, and does not die when a fractal ceases to exist. In fact, Anoma has no position in space or time, it is eternal. The word Anoma means the ideal version of the Anoma protocol, Anoma, created by Heliax. Particular fractals of Anoma partake in the nature of Anoma, but more or less imperfectly; it is only owing to this imperfection that there can be many fractal instances. Anoma is real, particular instances are only apparent. Wherever a group of individuals use a common name, they also have a common idea or common form. For example, though there are many Anoma fractals, there is only one Anoma protocol idea or form of Anoma. Just as an Anoma fractal is only apparent and not real, so the various fractal instances of Anoma are unreal, only copies of the Anoma protocol idea, which is real, and created by Heliax. Of this one real Anoma, created by Heliax, there can be knowledge, but in respect of the many fractals of Anoma made by developers and community members there can only be opinion.
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  • Intents → Transaction → Block Motivation is to show how intents fit into the block production process. Taiga The motivation was to show the life-cycle of an intent. Anoma Architecture
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  • TOC What is ZKML?DefinitionsPrivacy Approaches Machine Learning Quantization Why ZKML? What ZKML is Not Applications of ZKML
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  • Standards -hopefully we can agree on cross-chain message passing. :::info 💡 Notes from the working group breakout discussion after lunch. ::: IBC and Light client discussion The things we've seen - hard to implement, light clients have not caught on, ethereum light client is specifically complicated ZK proof for the light client - I as someone who is pairing don't need to understand the light client, only the proof - decouple particulars of getting assurances - implementation and integration separation Probably get better security guarantees, internet was a bunch of network protocols that you can move across transparently
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  • tools for the socioeconomic renaissance (apriori, ETH Prague 2024) thank you to christopher goes, d, can gurel and many others who work on anoma for inspiration overview socioeconomics and cybernetics crypto problems tools
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  • One effective tactic in building narratives that connect with potential users or target audiences of products is to use emotional messaging. Emotional messaging pulls at the heart strings of the audience. In a few words, the message can unite large groups of otherwise disjoint sets of communities. The message resonates so deeply that the audience can and will change their belief systems / ideologies. In particular, people are willing to fight wars, quite their jobs, go to jail, or even get shot based on an emotional message. <a href="https://ibb.co/PzysDBQ"><img src="https://i.ibb.co/WpXNVSt/Untitled-20.png" alt="Untitled-20" border="0"></a> This is one reason memes are effective. A picture or grouping of symbols maybe worth 1000 words, but it's also worth some number of emotions. Those emotions get people to make impulsive decisions / react. Take, for example, the political slogan in the United States often put forth by presidential or congressional candidates; "Drain the swamp." This phrase resonates with frustrated voters who perceive the government is not working in their favor and that insiders are reaping all the benefits with backdoor dealings, and in the worst-case, corruption. One candidate named Donald J. Trump used this phrase rather effectively during the 2016 campaign cycle, and it resonated with various voters. Trump was able to convert this sentiment into a narrative around his candidacy. Since he was a business person and not a politician, the election-machine claimed, he would make more pragmatic decisions unlike the swamp creatures.
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  • <a href="https://imgflip.com/i/8o1r78"><img src="https://i.imgflip.com/8o1r78.jpg" title="made at imgflip.com"/></a><div><a href="https://imgflip.com/memegenerator"></a></div> Introduction Welcome to the first edition of the intents newsletter brought to you by some of the folks building Anoma. You may be thinking, "really another newsletter? I can't even catch up with my reading list as is!" Fear not. The purpose of our publication is to provide signal. Indeed, we have a bias for long-form content of the highest quality. By filtering we'll provide you with an aggregation of relevant research in and around intent-centric protocols along with directly related literature. The reader of our publication can expact one edition per month to start. This should provide enough time to work through material (if it is of interest) while not spamming your inbox so frequently that you unsubscribe. Also, we need to experiement, so this cadence could change to more or less frequent publications. Please feel free to provide feedback in the forum comments below. Tell us what you like, don't like and where we can improve. The newsletter will be broken down into different thematic categories which we find relevant to intent research. We'll provide the reader with a summary or abstract of the relevant work along with a cited link to the source material. Some months may include new categories while excluding categories from previous months. Indeed, it should also be noted, we are building an intent-centric protocol (Anoma) and we may feature our own material where relevant, but only if its high quality (please forgive us in advance). Happy reading!
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  • Who: - Stage: - When: - Objective Develop a blockchain-based accounts payable application using the [redacted] algortihm, for small businesses, enabling publicly declared liabilities and debts to be discharged through obligation clearing and liquidity injections from on-chain (tokens) and off-chain sources (fiat). First develop a Web 2 based MVP, then a fully private network of obligation clearing and settlement on-chain. Background
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  • <a href="https://ibb.co/LtMxSBL"><img src="https://i.ibb.co/pzgf2Nt/Untitled-41.png" alt="Untitled-41" border="0"></a><br /><a target='_blank' href='https://imgbb.com/'></a><br /> :::warning Please see an update version of this post on the Anoma research forums. ::: Note to the reader: This is a draft that has yet to be reviewed. It may contain errors, incomplete ideas, and incorrect concepts, in particular as it pertains the pseudo code examples. Please feel free to register feedback and / or complaints. I'd like to publish this on the Anoma blog sooner than later. Feel free to reach out directly for specific questions out of the scope or for more async dialogue.
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  • :::info This note is composed of several sources including, The MEV Supply Chain by thegostep MEVconomics for Modular Blockchain Stacks by Jon Adler Protocol owned building by BarryPlunkett Information Theoretic MEV by Christopher Goes Encrypted Mempool and MEV Metadata by Justin Drake This is MEV by Xyn The Edge of MEV by Christopher Goes
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  • Synchronous composability Decentralized preconfs Based sequencing Shared sequencing (JD mev.market) synchronous inclusion synchronous execution synchronous composability Guarantees the shared sequencer can give on different data structures
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  • Intents Day 0: A New Psyop Intents day brought together some of the leading thinkers and builders working on intents or intent like protocols. Each of the speakers presented for approximately fifteen minutes, with a ten-minute open discussion following each presentation. The participants asked good questions and often the presenters had open dialogue during the presentation. In addition, there were three whiteboard sessions. In this report, you will find a summary of the speaker presentations along with some memes. Additional references are linked for context. The words that follow are mostly not mine (they belong to the galaxy brains who presented), I simply aggregated the information for your consumption and perhaps enjoyment. The errors are my own. tl;dr It's all a huge psyop. Intents aren't real.
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  • Resources Abstract Suave - SUAVE is a permissionless credible commitment device (PCCD) that program and privately settle higher-order commitments for other PCCDs. It should look like a faster blocktime version of Ethereum but with SGX to ensure private mempool Concrete Suave - SUAVE is designed to decentralize the MEV supply chain by enabling centralized infrastructure (builders, relays, centralized RFQ routing, etc.) to be programmed as smart contracts on a decentralized blockchain. Endgame Suave - Suave is designed to be the Mempool and Blockbuilder for all blockchains **Note that Abstract and Concrete is not Flashbots teminology. I am boring here for understanding, consistency with our specs, and information disseminartion Abstratc Suave Xyn Spec The Future of MEV is SUAVE
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  • Notes from a recent twitter spaces with the Taiko community featuring Anton Bukov from 1inch, Chen Magen from CowSwap, Kenny Bassig from Taiko, and Christopher Goes from Heliax. Lisa A from Taiko organized and hosted the spaces. Ken (Taiko): Ecosystem and BD/partnerships. Here to discuss What Taiko is doing to enable intent based architectures to support builders and dapps building awesome applications and use cases. Anton (1inch): Here to discuss intents, it will be a very interesting discussion. What is actually happening in the market. 1 inch for almost 1 year has 1 inch fusion which allows users to trade assets by providing signatures. Modern way to call this is an intent. Working internally on intents protocols. Many companies are working on their own vision of intents protocol because no one clearly understands what it is, and every developer has their own opinions. I think we will see maybe 10 intents protocols and the market will decide what is suitable for what. Chen (CowSwap): On the CowSwap team for the last 3 years. Mainly focused on BD and ecosystem and a little bit about CowSwap the aspect of intents. Cow protocol in the existing version is running for more than 2 years mainly the team is focused on auction mechanisms to allow not just for users to express trading intents but also for solvers or sophisticated players in the system to use those intents to maximize user benefits. One unique way this happens on cow protocol is via batching multiple user intents which can be settled in a simple batch. Christopher (Anoma): Anoma has been working on intents for a little while and arrived at the concept from trying to understand what blockchains will look like, what users want, and generalize and turn it into a mathematical expression. The word has become popular recently. The way we use it means heterogenous trust and information flow control. I am excited to explore different definitions and ways our protocols can interoperate and collaborate.
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  • Preface It should be noted that many brilliant minds have thought about public goods funding in great detail. While this article is not exclusively about public goods funding, this article takes significant inspiration from the writings of Alex Tabarrok, Vitalik Buterin, and Christopher Goes among others. In particular the following sources are primary inspirations for this writing. The private provision of public goods via dominant assurance contracts Tabarrok, Public Choice 96: 345–362, 1998. Better Crowdfunding Cason, Tabarrok, Zubrickas, 2019. Presentation by Alex Tabarrok at AFT 2021 A Flexible Design for Funding Public Goods Buterin, Hitzig, Weyl, 2019. Quadratic Payments: A Primer Buterin, 2019.
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  • Anoma Applications Good morning, my name is Apriori, its an honor and a privilege to be here. Today I'm going to talk about Anoma. First before we begin, I'd like to thank a few people. Thanks to Andrew Miller and Aniket Kate and the AFT conference organizers for this great event. Thanks to Christopher Goes, Ethan Buchman, Informal Systems, Julio Linares, and the entire Heliax team. Without them I would not be here today. Talk Overview In this talks we will progressively describe Anoma Applications. The Talk is broken into three parts.
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  • Source: DALLE-Michel Basquiat Preface Much public discourse has taken place since Devcon Bogotá when SUAVE was first revealed to the community as the next milestone for Flashbots. SUAVE is an interesting idea. Many words have been written about SUAVE since then from folks both inside and outside of Flashbots. In this article before we begin I'm going to tell you what this article is not about. Cross-domain MEV (see Christopher Goes, Obadia et al., Jon Charb ) Shared sequencers (see Quintus, Bowen, Fisch) TEEs or cryptography (see Andrew Miller, Phil Daiain, Ekiden) Security models (see Hasu & Jon Charb)
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  • Is there something fundamental to a global public square or global meeting/ information dissemination point? There are many emergent technologies which will allow for greater coordination at the local levels which could in the future lead to a status quo of local communities and trust graphs defined by their chosen interactions which can interoperate with other networks. However, it remains to be seen or known if this is what people want. Life today is global. In the morning when you wake up often the first thing you do is check social media platforms for updates to the groups which are relevant to you. You may not care about other echo bubbles which can simply be defined as the groups coordinated by your local view of a trust graph. However, you may want to interact with others and get exposure to the “trendy” topics. Is there anything here that a grass roots dissemination protocol could not address? Probably not in the sense that trust graphs that are relevant to you today can be just as relevant in grass roots settings. However there is somewhat of a fear of missing out that somehow if you are not on facebook, twitter, linkedIn, where you are globally discoverable and can interact with whomever, whenever you want, you will be missing out on something that others in your social groups find particularly relevant; even if its just memes (especially then). But the global social applications as constructed today turn users into their main products. They collect all relevant meta-data which is leaked every-time a user interacts with the application. The operators then catalogue the data into relevant bits and auction it off to the highest bidder, sometimes even price-fixing their own auctions (see google). There is no recourse or remuneration for the users who sometimes in the case of twitter pay to access the application. Indeed, some nefarious application act as malware that covertly spies on a user’s behaviors on their own devices without explicit permissions. And from a general user experience, often targeted adds are either irrelevant or offensive. This business model is not only invasive but its morally bankrupt and locks ethical fiber. That said, getting users to switch to decentralized networks where they own their own trust graphs and can port their identities across applications as they choose, is a herculean task. I postulate their are two paths alone that can get users to switch from the current centralized dystopian social applications to permissionless, open, user owned, and operated applications with low switching costs. Low switching costs is perhaps the most relevant ingredient. If I as a user can take my twitter following to another application, then I don’t care if the application owner happens to change the user interface and rules that govern the protocol. I can simply take my data and port it to another application without losing any reputation gained from years of twitter. If this can be fixed users would happily switch applications that align with their values and or provide better information flow control guarantees for example.
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