Opinion by: Alex Shevchenko, Co-founder aurora
Try making a simple purchase with cryptocurrency today. You are forced to entangle the extensions of your wallet, decipher the long sixteen further addresses, select networks, sign transactions, calculate unpredictable gas fees, and repeat all of them as your transaction gets stuck or fails.
Sometimes, you also need to bridge assets across chains. This is a glove that can only be done by a tech-savvy user.
At the same time, in traditional finance, Apple Pay completed a faucet transaction.
That’s a bar. In encryption, user experience remains Stuck in the dialing era.
Simpler paradigm: Just say what you want
Rather than forcing users to learn the mechanism of swaps, bridges and signature flows, Intent-based architecture Completely changed the mental model. Intent to let the user simply express their goal: “I want to pay $5 for this coffee and then let the system figure out the rest.
The term “intention” refers broadly to the result-driven interaction across encryption, rather than just atomic cross-chain swaps, but rather the underlying paradigm that simplifies all user operations.
Under the hood, intentions are achieved through high-speed, minimal trust infrastructures where trade is performed by designated actors (usually market makers) rather than traditional Solver Network.
User initiates result-oriented requests, the backend processes routing, execution and settlement without exposing wallets, gas fees or chain complexity. The result is a seamless, intent-driven experience that can hide infrastructure while preserving decentralized assurances.
Encryption becomes result-driven, not action-driven.
Get rid of wallet mold
The wallet-centric paradigm has long defined how users interact with cryptocurrencies, and so is Constrained it.
A new model that completely eliminates the need for wallets has emerged. Based on Passkey The system now allows users to authenticate using familiar tools such as facial ID or touch ID, eliminating seed phrases, private key management, and passwords.
More importantly, an intent-based approach is chain agility. Users do not need to enter a specific blockchain to trade or participate. Sending cryptocurrencies becomes as simple as sharing signature links. No app installation, no wallet settings.
This intuitive portable interaction is ultimately the key to driving mainstream adoption.
Copy familiar financial experience
Concentrated communication like Binance Being conquered The market is because they prioritize user experience. Infrastructure based on modern intent follows familiar pathways of sediment, trade and withdrawal of traffic and has comparable settlement speeds, but there are crucial differences.
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Intentionally, smart contracts can be used as a guardian and settlement layer, maintaining secure user balances, and, most importantly, publicly available storage characters. The ultra-low fees of scalable blockchains make decentralized transactions practical for the first time.
This architecture is not only for traders – it is built to provide Web2-style payment rails Book a flight.
Intent and AI are natural interfaces
Intent in the new execution layer, AI Assistant Become New interface layer.
Consider telling your assistant: “Send $50 BTC to my brother” or “Pin my SOL at the best rate of return.” You are not managing your wallet, signing a deal or worrying about MEV, but you are expressing a goal. The assistant parses your request, and the solver network is implemented with intent, and the result is seamless.
AI and the intention to reimagine crypto UX from scratch, ultimately matching the elegance of traditional finance while maintaining the core principles of decentralization.
For an increasing number of agent-driven, microtransaction-based AI economy, intention is particularly critical to infrastructure. People are lazy and don’t have time. This is why the microtransaction business model fails, and subscription-based services thrived: Always authorizing payments is complex, and it’s easy to forget to unsubscribe when you no longer use the service (especially if you intentionally complicate UX). This status quo will not continue.
Artificial intelligence agents think it’s faster. They will be able to optimize prices and expenses, which are simple, tangible features that are automated. Once AI agents reach a certain level of adoption, services that provide microtransactions will flourish simply because all agents will choose them over subscriptions.
This is the moment when blockchain shines: traditional payment systems such as Visa and MasterCard are not built for large and conditional microtransactions. Intent will provide a higher level of foundation for these financial interactions, namely direct payments, escrow agreements, stream payments, currency exchanges, and more.
Beyond Payment
While payment is the obvious first application, the intent is not limited to retail. They abstract complexity from various multi-step transactions:
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Perform multi-hop interchange across chain stores
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Manage cross-chain asset portfolio
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Place gas efficiency limit orders in Defi
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Automating revenue strategies based on dynamic conditions
This is the infrastructure for the next generation of crypto applications, not for Degen Power users but for everyone.
The way forward
Crypto’s unpromoted UX has been the elephant in the room for years. Intent ultimately represents a turning point in the maturity of our industry. They mark the transition from a protocol-centric design to an interface that prioritizes user intentions.
Intent is results-driven, intuitive, and reflects the way users actually want to trade, especially in the AI-driven future.
The real success of blockchain will not appear when users understand how it works – it will appear when they don’t even realize they are using it.
Opinion by: Alex Shevchenko, co-founder of Aurora.
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