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Information flow control, "intentpools", universality, and the end of supply-side blockchain economics. tl; dr "Intents" are in vogue, but in the Discourse the concept remains a wee bit ethereal, eluding attempts at concrete characterization. Intents are everything, nothing, and each point in between. I've particularly enjoyed a few genres of take: From the fully automated luxury space communism wing: Don't forget, think of the users: From the penumbral polity of protocol pragmatism: From the department of reasonable skepticism: To which I can only respond Finally, from the MEV economic realist wing (or possibly Paradigm's secret underground LAN party), Quintus and Georgios wrote an article on intent-based architectures and their risks. This article does an excellent job of articulating the relation of "intents" to Ethereum's current architecture and ecosystem topology and describing some risks in transitioning to an intent-centric world. I write partially in (late) response to it, wit

Information flow control, "intentpools", universality, and the end of supply-side blockchain economics. tl; dr Intents can be understood colloquially as commitments to user preferences over the state space and mathematically as atomic information flow constraints . In a practical sense, intents: Only make sense in a multi-party context. Represent some kind of non-deterministic computation in a complexity theory sense (there may be more than one possibly acceptable state). In order to be concretely efficient, must only refer to and constrain a small subset of the entire state space which the us

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