How DeFi Gets Its Edge Back?

I’ve been thinking a lot about how #DeFi# kinda lost the plot.

What started as this wild, permissionless experiment in financial coordination slowly got eaten up by the same playbook.

The infra got shinier. The narratives got louder. But the apps were mostly just new wrappers on the same rails.

Then I started looking deeper into what Anoma’s building, and it made me realize DeFi needs a new substrate.

What @anoma's doing with intents and solver-based execution is coordination reimagined from the bottom up.

With intents as a first-class primitive, users stop clicking around and start interacting with actual goals.

You don’t have to know how to do something. You just state what you want, what you're willing to accept, and let the system figure it out.

That subtle shift unlocks a much wilder design space:

– trades that only execute if volatility hits a range

– cross-chain swaps with constraints like “but only if I stay private”

– conditional yield strategies that adapt to market structure

These are the actual shape of how capital wants to move. But no current DeFi infra can support it without insane workaround logic or off-chain trust.

DeFi started with finance ran on code and intents level it up to coordination runs on logic.

That’s how we get our edge back.
#Anoma