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Anoma Specification

Anoma entities

The term "Anoma" as used on this site refers specifically to the Anoma Protocol. However, it may also be used elsewhere to refer to related entities such as the Anoma Network or the Anoma Foundation.

  • The Anoma Network, which consists of nodes using the Anoma protocol.
  • The Anoma Foundation, a Swiss foundation (Stiftung) established to support and coordinate the Anoma protocol, network, and the surrounding ecosystem.

For more information about the foundation, please visit https://anoma.net/learn.

Anoma is a distributed operating system for intent-centric applications1. The Anoma protocol architecture supports interoperability at state, network, and application levels without restricting the types of intents or computational methods used to solve them.

As a multi-party intent-centric architecture, Anoma is designed for applications concerned with

  • coordination of socio-economic processes dealing with resources,
  • distributed capabilities (freedom of action, and control over resources), and
  • agreement between agents (users) under conditions of heterogeneous trust.

The same architecture supports both arbitrary fungible measures of value (e.g. currencies) and unique (non-fungible) objects, so users can choose the representations and level of precision most appropriate to model aspects of the world which they care about.

This site aims to describe the architecture required to implement the Anoma protocol and serves as a guide for Anoma researchers and implementors.

  1. Christopher Goes. Anoma as the universal intent machine for ethereum. Ethereum Research, 2024. Draft. URL: https://ethresear.ch/t/rfc-draft-anoma-as-the-universal-intent-machine-for-ethereum/19109 (visited on 2024-06-17). ↩