Anoma does not require users to write complex smart contracts or engage in fierce liquidity battles; instead, it directly asks users: "What goal do you want to achieve?" It then allows you to express your goals as "intentions" in a private, composable manner without predefined execution paths (zero assumptions).

The reason this intent-based approach is powerful and efficient is that it precisely addresses the pain points in the current cryptocurrency field:

1. A large amount of coordination relies on manual operations (such as over-the-counter trading, complex Liquidity incentive setups), resulting in inefficiency.
2. Smart contracts are difficult to scale; they are essentially predefined bilateral rules that struggle to gracefully handle complex coordination scenarios involving multiple parties and dynamic changes.
3. Privacy is often viewed as an optional feature, an afterthought added as a plugin, protocol extension, or merely a gimmick (such as "ZK badge"), rather than a fundamental attribute.

Anoma fundamentally reversed this situation:

1. User-centric goal expression: Users only need to declare the desired final outcome (e.g., "sell asset Y at no less than price X")
2. Privacy is built-in and powerful: In Anoma, you do not submit publicly transparent "transactions"; instead, you express an "intention". This intention itself only contains the information you want the network to know. Do you want to hide the asset type? Hide the counterparty? Conceal the final execution path? All of these are natively supported in Anoma. The key is that Anoma allows you to finely control the visibility of data at the protocol logic level (rather than the application UI level), making privacy itself programmable, selectable, and composable.
3. Privacy of Matching and Resolution: The matching of intentions and the final settlement process take place in an encrypted environment.
4. Diverse and Coordinated Infrastructure: Anoma's native design supports atomic, multi-party intent matching and settlement, providing the infrastructure for complex multi-party collaboration.

The privacy leap brought by Anoma goes far beyond protecting users; its deeper value lies in unlocking new forms of coordination that cannot occur on a default transparent network. This includes business-level interactions that require hidden strategic details (such as large transactions and institutional-level DeFi position scheduling) and complex arbitrage paths that are resistant to MEV. This makes it clear to us that privacy is not just an added feature, but a necessary prerequisite for achieving truly effective and complex coordination.