GuShiio.com With the upcoming launch of the main network and the gradual implementation of various roadmaps, Enso may become one of the key driving forces on the road to large-scale adoption of blockchain technology.
Author: Shenchao TechFlow
Blockchain is a market that is extremely efficient:
The public chain revolves around TPS, aiming to bring faster transaction speeds;LST / LRT dolls are stacked on top of each other, committed to achieving higher financial efficiency; various novel angles emerge every day in the Meme supercycle, and many projects take only one day from blooming to falling.
But this efficiency does not seem to be reflected in blockchain product development:
If you want to develop products based on a certain blockchain, you must first conduct high-intensity learning of the chain and understand a series of important designs such as consensus mechanism, account model, Gas design, development language, and testing tools;
If you want to further improve your product features, such as introducing location functions and payment functions for hotel booking products, which is commonplace in Web2, you can directly choose to integrate mature products such as Google Map and Alipay, but in the blockchain world, in most cases, you need to build everything from scratch;
If you want to reach more ecosystem users, you need to support more chains, but each chain has its own rules, and the ever-decreasing threshold for chain development brings more chains to the industry. You must be like a A general who expands territory, breaks through every blockchain ecosystem city one by one, and achieves wider integration.…
No matter every step, it seriously slows down development efficiency and effectively affects the presentation of product functions and user experience.Because developers always need to spend 90% of their energy implementing the most basic functions and cannot focus on innovation.
Who will help blockchain developers who are stuck in repeating the wheel?
Dedicated to abstracting on-chain smart contract interactions and building blockchain development shortcuts through Shortcuts, Enso is attracting more people’s attention because of its outstanding performance in lowering developer construction thresholds and realizing intentional interactions: According to official data, Enso currently has supported 75+ projects and achieved more than US$16 billion in on-chain settlements.
In addition, Enso has completed a cumulative financing of 2 million,Acquired including Polychain capital, Multicoin Capital, Cyber Many well-known institutions such as fund, Spartan, TheLAO, Ideo Ventures, Hypersphere, and Selini capital have treated each other well, and have attracted more than 60 industry leaders as angel investors.
Behind the choices of both developers and institutions, how can Enso cure the problems of blockchain development such as complexity, duplication, inefficiency, and high cost?
From the original API products, to the Enso Shortcut Engine, to the upcoming Enso Network, a decentralized network based on Cosmos, where everyone participates and benefits everyone, let us walk into Enso using Shortcuts as the starting point to realize chain abstraction intentions and promote the large-scale adoption of blockchain. Specific problem-solving ideas.
1.5 Completed 7 months of development work in a day and intuitively experienced Enso efficiency
Based on Enso’s huge advantages in eliminating acquisition and execution complexity across multiple protocols, this amazing productivity comparison comes from the real-world development experiences of Enso partners:
Plug is an intent-driven on-chain activity automation platform designed to build a Web3 version of Zapier that allows users to manage, write, schedule and execute all on-chain activities on its platform.
Before cooperating with Enso, OnPlug spent seven months integrating the protocol, and the cumbersome and repetitive integration work consumed a lot of energy; after cooperating with Enso, OnPlug rebuilt the entire integration layer and completed the workload of the past seven months in just 1.5 days. The leap forward in development efficiency allows OnPlug to focus more on the automation of Web3 activities, bringing great convenience to users.
In addition to improving development efficiency, Enso is also very good at handling complex on-chain DeFi executions. Berachain’s pre-deposit market Boyco has attracted widespread community participation. As a supporter behind Berachain Boyco, Enso has also been praised:
We know that from single-token deposits to multi-token strategies, the demands in the Boyco market are complex, and it is undoubtedly inefficient and costly to manually integrate protocols, create custom code for the specific needs of each market, and conduct extensive testing and auditing.
Therefore, Berachain and Enso have established a cooperation to achieve rapid integration with all major DeFi protocols, ensuring compatibility of the entire ecosystem, and users can complete asset interactions with multiple protocols in one transaction within the Boyco application, without having to switch between multiple platforms and without the need to search for the best way to obtain the assets they need, bringing a more seamless participation experience and laying a good foundation for Berachain’s main network launch.
At the time of writing, Boyco TVL has exceeded US$3.1 billion with the support of Enso Shortcuts.
In addition, the automated cryptocurrency trading market Glider also provides users with powerful portfolio automation functions through Enso;Enso is launched on ZKsync to help developers build faster and more effectively; the multi-chain liquidity re-pledge protocol Bedrock and Enso have established a cooperation to provide users with one-click exchange and deposit assets in uniBTC Berachain vault.
Outside of the DeFi scenario, the combination of Enso and AI is equally eye-catching:
At a time when the AI Agent craze continues and the DeFAI narrative rises, DeFi is the core pillar of the encrypted world. DeFAI, which aims to use AI to simplify complex DeFi operating thresholds, is generally optimistic.
While AI Agents are developing in a more intelligent direction, Enso is committed to helping AI Agents overcome the complexity of interacting with multiple protocols, bundling transactions, and managing operations, and giving them stronger execution capabilities:
By integrating with Enso, BrianknowsAI allows it to focus more on developing their intent recognition engine without having to worry about integrating with multiple blockchain protocols;
As an independent hedge fund management company, Velvet Unicorn has quickly built advanced functions such as neural network routing and multi-step revenue strategies through cooperation with Enso;
Hey anon, as an AI Agent focused on DeFi, interacts with 180+ protocols on the chain through Enso.…
There are too many such things to mention.
It is reported that currently, Enso has integrated 180+ protocols, of which 60+ apps are using Enso to take advantage of these integrations, and the Enso ecological cooperation landscape is still expanding rapidly.
Behind the series of successful cases, many people are curious:
As a secret weapon for multiple projects to simplify the development process, improve development efficiency, and bring a seamless experience, how does Enso achieve all this? nbsp;
From APIs to intent engines to Shortcuts, enter Enso’s product evolution
As the saying goes, practice leads to true knowledge.
Enso did not determine the project development strategy with Shortcuts as the core from the beginning. After many early attempts to adjust based on the product and the team’s long-term observation of the demand for the encryption market, Enso’s specific solution ideas for improving the efficiency of blockchain development have gradually become clear.
Enso started as DeFi and previously launched a social trading platform where anyone can create social strategies to monetize their investments in DeFi and ERC20 tokens. But in the process of integrating more DeFi protocols, Enso spent a lot of time and paid high audit costs of more than $500,000 to integrate 15 DeFi protocols.
After this incident, Enso found that compared with specific DeFi products, the market needed services that could solve DeFi development difficulties. Therefore, the team decided to rethink the product design, restructure the underlying logic of the product, and since then launched a series of APIs, including Route API, Bundle API, Metadata API, etc., designed to provide tools to execute and obtain all relevant metadata for the DeFi protocol, including executing multiple transactions in one atomic transaction, By bundling multiple DeFi operations to create a custom workflow, obtaining the best route based on a given expected path, and providing all metadata related to the DeFi protocol, developers can quickly embed on-chain operations by simply calling the API into their products, providing efficiency improvements for developers building the next generation of DeFi.
After the success of the API, Enso thought deeply about lowering the development threshold: How to further help developers easily build products that can interact with any smart contract on any blockchain framework?
Based on this, in June 2024, the intention engine Enso In tent En gine was officially launched.
As a fully decentralized shared network state, Enso Intent En gine aims to simplify smart contract interactions on the blockchain and support the construction of tradable data in various blockchain frameworks, which is achieved through a Map of all smart contract interactions in the blockchain framework.
Simply put, comparing the blockchain industry to the earth. Each blockchain is every country, and the application in each blockchain is the city in each country. There are schools, shopping malls, parks and other facilities in the city, while the application includes various operations such as lending, borrowing, exchange, transfer, approval, and deposit.
In the past, countries did not communicate with each other, that is, data was not shared between blockchains. If you want to integrate a chain or a smart contract, you need to learn and adapt to the rules of the country and city.
Enso aims to draw a global Map that records the laws of all countries and cities (i.e., all blockchains and smart contracts) and presents them in standardized data formats, transaction formats, and execution formats so that developers can easily integrate through the standardization layers built by Enso.
So at Enso, developers can automatically process complex blockchain interactions by simply expressing their intentions, and the intention request does not have to be explicitly specific to a single use case. It can include multiple types of smart contract interactions across multiple blockchain frameworks.
For example, in this shared Map, just as we can gather all parks in this global map through the label “Parks”, we can use the operation type “Lend” to implement data collection and analysis in all loan agreements.
Based on the concept of Enso Intent En gine, combining different operation types on demand can create a series of Shortcuts that can significantly improve the efficiency of blockchain development, transforming complex on-chain operations into simple, verified and reusable building blocks.
Simply put, the standardized operation types are like Lego bricks, and developers can splice the bricks into the shapes they want according to their own needs. For example, Lego bricks have been combined into doors, windows, walls, etc. Pre-built components, you can easily build these components into any building you like in a school, hospital, or shopping mall.
Similarly, developers can combine different operation types to form various Shortcuts such as DeFi routing, asset management, and automated execution, and integrate these Shortcuts into the functional implementation of various products.
Does this sound very simple and efficient?
Currently, Shortcuts that Enso already owns include:
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Token exchange and DeFi routing
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asset management
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Financial tools and automation
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DeFi protocol integration
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Smart contract interaction
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Complex transaction bundling
At the same time, more Shortcuts are in the pipeline. Multiple projects, including Berachain, ZKsync, and Bedrock, have greatly reduced the time and cost required for integration and maintenance through Enso, and have achieved more than US$16 billion in on-chain settlement, bringing more liquidity to the blockchain ecosystem. Integration, innovative features and high-quality user experience.
Behind the exquisite product design is the project control of an elite team with 10 years of working experience in the blockchain field.
As CEO and co-founder of Enso, Connor Howe has been working full-time in the blockchain industry since 2016 and published one of the earliest Ethereum research papers in the UK. Prior to founding Enso, Connor worked at Sygnum, a Swiss fully licensed digital asset bank, and established the blockchain department. He was responsible for developing products such as fully collateralized stablecoins, tokenization kits, and multi-signature, and used the original HSM to manage more than US$5 billion in assets.
Another co-founder, Peter Phillips, is also Enso’s CTO. He has also been working full-time in the blockchain industry since 2016. Before joining Enso, Peter worked in a blockchain development organization with clients including DuckDuckGo and Mozilla. He has developed Aragon through Autark and has rich experience in blockchain development.
Milos Costantini is the core developer and co-founder of Enso. Before joining Enso, Milos built the verifier infrastructure for Swisscom blockchain, Switzerland’s largest telecommunications company, and helped establish their blockchain department, making outstanding contributions to building Enso’s network architecture.
It is worth mentioning that I believe many community members have also noticed that currently Enso Intent Engine provides services in a centralized manner, but Enso takes decentralization as its core vision and aims to build an organic ecosystem where everyone can participate and contribute.
With the upcoming arrival of Enso Network and the final piece of the decentralization puzzle, Enso’s decentralized network vision is accelerating its realization.
Next stop: Enso Network: Moving towards complete decentralization
As an independent L1 Tendermint blockchain, Enso Network is jointly driven by network participants, providing efficient execution and extensive integration. We know that “realizing intentions through Shortcuts” is the core concept of Enso, and the realization of intentions includes three keys:
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Expression of intent: The user specifies the desired result on the application.
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Intention execution: Solvers compete in auctions to determine the best solution to execute the user’s intention.
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Intention settlement: The solver earns benefits by providing the optimal solution.
Enso Network achieves the logical closed loop of its decentralized network by introducing four major roles.
Consumers are the demand-makers who need to state their expected results and pay a fee to make requests to the Enso Network.
Action providers are developers who publish smart contract abstractions on the chain. Based on the proportion of solutions generated using their smart contract abstractions, the network will reward developers who become Action providers.
Graphers is the person who provides solutions based on Consumers ‘needs. Whenever a new requirement arises, Graphers will traverse all contributed abstractions in the Enso network and combine them in the optimal order to generate executable bytecode. As the author of the optimal solution, Graphers will be rewarded.
Finally, Validators, as the core of maintaining the safe operation of the network, are responsible for monitoring and broadcasting valid requests from consumers on the network, verifying the smart contract abstractions contributed by Action providers (only the smart contract abstractions verified by Validators can be used by Graphers to generate solutions), and are also responsible for determining the optimal solution in the solution from Graphers and feeding it back to Consumers for execution.
As a key component of the Enso ecosystem,$ENSO has a total circulation of 100 million units and has the following key functions:
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Gas: Pay the fees needed to initiate requests and modify status on the Enso network;
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Governance: Promote the upgrade of governance agreements through token voting;
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Pledge: Action providers, Graphers, and Validators all need to pledge a corresponding number of tokens to participate in network contributions. When improper behavior is discovered, the $ENSO they pledged will be confiscated. At the same time, the coin holder can also entrust pledge to network participants to further maintain network security.
Based on this, Enso has a positive ecological cycle in which everyone can participate, everyone can contribute, and everyone can benefit.
conclusion
Of course, although the Enso API is very mature and widely integrated into dozens of well-known projects, the development of Enso Network is still in a relatively early stage.
According to its white paper, the launch of Enso Network will be divided into two phases:
In the first phase, centralized Enso services will coexist with decentralized networks. Developers interested in becoming Action providers can contribute to the centralized services hosted by Enso, and independent Validators will simulate bytecode solutions.
In the second phase, Enso Network will gradually transform into a fully sustainable ecosystem. At the same time, the network will provide a completely permission-free participation environment for key network contributors such as Action providers and Graphers. In addition, Enso Network will also expand from supporting only the Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM) to the Solana Virtual Machine (SVM) and Move Virtual Machine (MVM) frameworks to further enhance the developer experience of the multi-chain ecosystem.
It is particularly noteworthy that although Enso has achieved outstanding results in applications such as DeFi and AI in the past, fundamentally speaking, for those applications that want to interact with smart contracts on any blockchain, they can demand optimal solutions through Enso Network.
In other words, Enso Network has the ability to support any type of project. It is not only limited to improving the development efficiency and service quality of applications such as DeFi, but also has the potential to become a common gateway for all smart contract interactions on all blockchains. At a time when the future trend is gradually clear, Enso will be an effective way to help developers build killer applications that can truly achieve large-scale adoption.
At a time when the number of public chains is surging, DeFi interactions are deepening and complex, and cross-chain needs are doubling, Enso’s narrative of improving development efficiency and becoming a common gateway for all smart contract interactions on the chain is undoubtedly attractive. Its evolution from API to intent engine to Enso Network also allows us to see the attitude and thinking of continuous improvement and continuous cultivation of the project.
With the upcoming launch of the main network and the gradual implementation of various roadmaps, Enso may become one of the key driving forces on the road to large-scale adoption of blockchain technology.
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