The current economic network and organizing paradigm restricts autonomy and limits freedom. Communities have two options: to give up autonomy for the sake of interoperability - use infrastructure, protocols, and currencies operated and controlled by someone else, and thereby participate in wider economic networks - or to give up interoperability for the sake of autonomy - opt out of the shared infrastructure and produce everything themselves. Anoma aims to offer a third way - one which preserves both autonomy and interoperability.

In this talk, we'll introduce Anoma as Ethereum's universal intent machine, then describe Anoma's affordances and how they provide developers and communities with tools to build socio-economic applications of the future by unbundling protocols (applications) from operators (Silicon Valley gatekeepers and wall st financiers). The heart of the talk will review a handful of Anoma's novel applications, including;

1. Public Signal - double/sided version of Kickstarter implemented with intents. Possible to implement Alex Tabarrok's dominant assurance contracts.
2. Multichat - a distributed and encrypted chat network without any specially designated server operators.
3. Promise Graph - a language and structured accounting logic for making and managing promises in and across distributed organizations.
4. Scale-free money - a hypothetical monetary system design which allows anyone to create arbitrary denominations of money at any time for any purpose (inclusive of Multilateral Trade-Credit Set-off)
5. Time Banks - facilitate the trade of time for skills without needing “money” (in the traditional sense) as a medium of exchange.
6. Modular Logistics - unifies transport logistics providers under a common interface. Instead of contracting w/ individual providers, users contract w/ insurance providers, and buy a contract to transport them from a to b.