Anoma

Anoma is the product of decades of cutting-edge research and development in the fields of cryptography, programming language theory and blockchain technology. Learn more about the vision and motivations that led to Anoma’s creation, as well as the team and backers behind Anoma who are working to make this vision a reality.

- Keep your financial and transaction data anonymous no matter the asset you wish to use, transfer, or trade, from currency and NFTs to goods and services.

- Increase the likelihood of finding suitable trading partners through n-party bartering, whereby multiple parties diagonally exchange assets within a group.

- Group together with other parties whose preferences align with your own to articulate shared desires in intents and create n-party atomic settlements.

The Anoma protocol instantiates such a candidate: arbitrarily expressive, time-limited, binding commitments to value, communicated through an intent gossip system, settled atomically on a distributed ledger by a trade system which preserves Pareto-efficiency, and capable of scaling fractally in both security and throughput to reflect real interdependencies.

Such a set of protocols is like a new language: alone, it is isolated, with no necessary relation to the world nor ability to effect change in it. Users must elect to interact with the Anoma network in order to exchange data to and from this commitment system — it is only through oracle access to the outside world that the state of the ledger can begin to reflect external states of affairs, and only through users electing to treat data on the ledger as significant that causal action can be taken back upon the world. Why might users use such a system? Language, as such, has no systemic binding force, yet it perseveres, should the new language of the Anoma protocol prove useful we expect similarly.

Anoma consists of a decentralized ledger, with a particular state at any point in logical time, on which the state of interest to the participants can be represented and using which they can negotiate changes in resource allocation compatible with their combined preferences. On this ledger, participants can create “validity predicates”: programs which describe their preferences, and allow for state changes in accordance with their preferences to be enacted.