Whitepaper Reading: Intent-Based Markets
Heyyy you👋🏼. We’re kicking off Whitepaper Reading Club in Lagos.
If you’re the kind of person who wants to actually understand protocols (not just repeat threads), pull up. This is for builders, security researchers, and research-leaning folks who enjoy reading primary sources and arguing through assumptions, incentives, and failure modes.
Topic: What are Intents and How are they designed?
Intents flip the usual flow. Instead of “submit exact transactions,” users say, “here’s the outcome I want.” Execution is then handled by competitive solvers/relayers.
We’ll ground this in real implementations from UniswapX, NEAR intents, CoW Protocol, etc. Then we’ll pressure-test the idea: what’s the minimal definition of an intent? What exactly gets outsourced — matching, routing, settlement? Which design choices matter most for incentives and safety?
That’s the conversation for meetup #1.
Resources:
An Analysis of Intent-Based Markets —https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.02525
Intent-Based Architecture and Their Risks — https://www.paradigm.xyz/2023/06/intents
Format
10-15 mins silent reading to start
Discussion-first, no panels
Bring questions, critiques, and examples (technical depth welcomed)
Short notes + key takeaways shared after the session
About Whitepaper Reading Club
The Whitepaper Reading Club is a community of 650 passionate engineers, founders, core-devs, students, researchers, across Singapore, Malaysia, Bangkok, SF and New York who come together every month to read and discuss blockchain papers (website).
We create detailed and easy to understand summaries for each paper (summaries) and have held 50+ sessions since June 2023, covering topics from Account Abstraction, Parallel Chains, EIPs, Bitcoin Ecosystem to AI x Crypto. We are ecosystem-agnostic, not for profit and with a strong focus on projects with technical, product or social innovations.
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