Intents fix crypto’s UX crisis.

Opinion by: Alex Shevchenko, co-founder of Aurora

Try to make a simple purchase with crypto today. You are forced to wrangle wallet extensions, decipher long hexadecimal addresses, select networks, sign transactions, calculate unpredictable gas fees and repeat all of these because your transactions get stuck or fail.

Sometimes, you also need to bridge assets across chains. It’s a gauntlet that only a technically savvy user can complete.

Meanwhile, in traditional finance, Apple Pay completes a transaction in a single tap.

That’s the bar. In crypto, the…