​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, and research and curious folks who want to go to the source and debate the assumptions, incentives, and failure modes.

​Topic: What are Intents and How are they designed?

​Intents change the usual flow of transactions. Instead of “submit exact transactions,” users say, “here’s the outcome I want.” Execution is then handled by competitive solvers/relayers.

​We’ll discuss:

• ​Real world applications from UniswapX, NEAR intents, CoW Protocol, and Cets and more.

• ​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?

​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

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​About Whitepaper Reading Club

​We are a community of 700 builders, founders, researchers, in Singapore, Malaysia, San Francisco, Bangkok, New York and now Lagos. We come together in person every month to discuss the latest blockchain projects (website)

​​​​​​Bittensor - discussion (Jul 2025)

​AlpenGlow (Aug 2025)

​​​​​Summaries

​​​​​​We create detailed and easy to understand summaries for each paper (summaries) and have held 70+ sessions since June 2023, covering topics from Account Abstraction, Parallel Chains, EIPs, Bitcoin Ecosystem to AIXCrypto. We are ecosystem-agnostic, not for profit and with a strong focus on projects with technical, product or social innovations.

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