Kitchen Nightmares
“Kitchen Nightmares” – A cartoon that illustrates how intent engineering in the blockchain industry is making complex on-chain actions (e.g. trading, staking) more accessible for consumers and developers.
Today, 80% of crypto users abandon trades mid-process. Why? Confusing wallets, chain switching, and unpredictable gas fees. Meanwhile, 65% of developers say blockchain complexity is a major barrier to building new applications. In traditional finance, you can open a bank account and buy a stock in under 30 minutes, but in crypto it often takes two hours – or users simply give up.
Intent engineering fixes this by letting users focus on outcomes instead of execution steps. You simply declare what you want, such as swapping tokens and staking, and the system handles it all – no wallet juggling, no chains to manage. It’s similar to “vibe engineering” in AI, where developers express high-level goals and let AI fill in the precise code details. Intent engineering is crypto’s “restaurant moment” – you order the dish, and the kitchen chaos stays behind the door where it belongs.
Players in this new market include Khalani, which provides a marketplace that connects users with solvers to streamline multichain blockchain transactions, Anoma, which provides a privacy-focused intent protocol for diverse applications, and IntentX, which focuses on intent-based DeFi trading The next step is convincing the rest of crypto that users don’t want to cook, they just want their spaghetti served hot.
Sources:
Deepinder Singh Sethi (Jul 14, 2025) – Blockchain, AI And The Digital Frontier – Forbes
Negin Akbari, John Grundy, Aamir Cheema, Adel N. Toosi (Apr 06, 2025) – IntentContinuum: Using LLMs to Support Intent-Based Computing Across the Compute Continuum – Arxiv
Sam Schillace (Jun 04, 2023) – Intent vs Process – the evolution of programming – LinkedIn Pulse
