Intents fix crypto’s UX crisis and pave the way for agentic DeFi

Intents overhaul crypto’s clunky user experience by letting people state what they want while the system handles the complexity behind the scenes. This outcome-driven approach opens the door to mainstream adoption and agent-driven financial automation.

Opinion by: Alex Shevchenko, co-founder of Aurora

Try to make a simple purchase with crypto today. You are forced to wrangle wallet extensions, decipher long hexadecimal addresses, select networks, sign transactions, calculate unpredictable gas fees and repeat all of these because your transactions get stuck or fail.

Sometimes, you also need to bridge assets across chains. It’s a gauntlet that only a technically savvy user can complete.

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