How Anoma Offers an Escape: Intent-Centric Architecture: Anoma shifts the paradigm. Instead of apps living on a specific chain executing transactions, users express their intent (e.g., "I want to swap X for Y at price Z" or "I want to confidentially pay P"). Unified Liquidity & Settlement: Anoma acts as a "coordination layer." Solvers (similar to searchers/block builders) can fulfill these intents by finding the best paths across any connected blockchain (Ethereum, Bitcoin, Cosmos chains, rollups, etc.) in a single, atomic settlement. Liquidity is pooled globally. Sovereign Chains: Apps can deploy as their own purpose-built sovereign chains (using Anoma's tech stack) but still seamlessly interact and settle with everything else in the Anoma ecosystem via the intent layer. No need to be an L2 of a specific L1. User Sovereignty: Users interact with their intent, not a specific chain. They don't need to know where the liquidity comes from or which chain ultimately settles it. The complexity is abstracted. In essence: Anoma envisions a world where: Users express what they want to happen (intent) without caring about the underlying chains. Solvers compete to find the best (cheapest, fastest, most private) way to fulfill that intent across the entire multi-chain landscape. Apps deploy wherever it makes sense for them (sovereign chain, existing L1, rollup) and can instantly tap into users and liquidity from *everywhere* via the shared intent layer.