Intents fix crypto’s UX crisis.
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.
Meanwhile, in traditional finance, Apple Pay completes a transaction in a single tap.
That’s the bar. In crypto, the user experience remains stuck in the dial-up era.
A simpler paradigm: Just say what you want
Rather than forcing users to learn the mechanics of swaps, bridges and signing flows, intent-based…
