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  • What are Intents?
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  1. Concepts

What are Crosschain Intents?

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What are Intents?

An intent is a type of order where a user specifies an outcome instead of an execution path. Intents can be single-chain, or crosschain where the user's desired outcomes is on a different chain than input assets. Across is only focused on crosschain intents.

We see the progression of crosschain intents in the following way:

Phase 1: Users' intent specifies moving the same asset from Chain A to Chain B

  • This is what Across started with and has been supporting since 2021.

Phase 2: Users' intent specifies moving the same asset from Chain A to Chain B and then executing a transaction on Chain B

  • This is enabled in Across by new functionality to embed instructions on the origin deposit to be executed on the destination.

Phase 3: Users' intent specifies swapping asset X on Chain A for a minimum amount of asset Y on Chain B and then executing a transaction on Chain B

  • Across Settlement supports these types of orders now. See .

ERC 7683

To grow the adoption of interoperability solutions powered by intents, Across is working on defining a crosschain intent order standard, based on the concepts outlined in Phase 3 above. This will enable a unified way to ingest, bid on, escrow and settle user intents. See more at erc7683.org.

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Intent Structure in Across