Anoma is a distributed operating system for intent‑centric decentralized applications. It lets developers and users express “intents” – desired outcomes – without specifying all underlying transaction steps. These intents are matched, solved, and settled across connected blockchains with support for privacy, scalability, and composable interactions. Anoma’s model abstracts away many complexities of infrastructure, enabling chain‑agnostic development, programmable data sovereignty, and a unified state across ecosystems while focusing on usability and expressiveness.