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DeFAI Made Easy: The Role of AI in Declarative Smart Contracts

DeFAI Made Easy: The Role of AI in Declarative Smart Contracts

Smart contracts have long been a foundational pillar of blockchain, enabling decentralized applications to automate agreements without intermediaries. But as the ecosystem evolves, traditional imperative smart contracts—which rely on rigid, step-by-step instructions—are falling short. They struggle to scale, adapt, and meet the needs of modern, user-centric systems. Enter

Essential @ ETHGlobal Bangkok

Essential @ ETHGlobal Bangkok

The ETHGlobal Bangkok hackathon was a weekend of collaboration and innovation, with nearly 2,000 hackers gathered on-site to push the boundaries of blockchain development. After focusing on building the next killer app on Essential at ETHGlobal San Francisco, we shifted gears in Bangkok. This time, we challenged hackers to

Essential @ ETHGlobal San Francisco

Essential @ ETHGlobal San Francisco

This year’s ETHGlobal San Francisco was a weekend filled with incredible innovation and creativity. We were thrilled to see so many talented teams come together, pushing the boundaries of blockchain technology and building on the Essential blockchain. Each project showed a unique perspective on what's possible with

Announcing Essential's $11M Series A Round

Announcing Essential's $11M Series A Round

We’re excited to announce that we’ve secured $11M in Series A funding led by Archetype, with participation from IOSG, Spartan, Mirana, Amber Group, Maven 11, Bodhi Ventures, Big Brain Holdings, Heartcore Capital, Selini, DCLM, and PropellerHeads - alongside founders and angel investors from Celestia, Hashflow, Enso, Barter, LI.

Unveiling the Essential Tech Stack

Unveiling the Essential Tech Stack

Essential is building in the open! Discover the Pint programming language, pre-alpha devnet, and comprehensive developer documentation.

Essential: The First Declarative Blockchain

Essential: The First Declarative Blockchain

Essential is a declarative intent-centric layer-2. By leveraging constraints to remove the need for execution, Essential enables developers to build scalable applications that optimize for the best user outcomes.

ERC-7521 Spec Revision 1

ERC-7521 Spec Revision 1

It’s been two and a half months since we first released the ERC-7521: General Intents for Smart Contract Wallets spec. Since then we’ve been collecting feedback and improving on the design. We are now ready to publish the first revision to the spec which includes several changes aimed

A (Slightly More) Formal Definition of Intents

A (Slightly More) Formal Definition of Intents

Intents are an emerging technology — the term "intent" has been used to describe a range of different ideas. Here, we outline a definition of intents in accordance with Essential's intent architecture.

Announcing Our $5.15 Million Seed Round

Announcing Our $5.15 Million Seed Round

We’ve raised a seed round to realize our mission of accelerating the transition from value extraction to intent satisfaction.

Asset Based Intent Standard: An Intent Standard for the World of Digital Assets

Asset Based Intent Standard: An Intent Standard for the World of Digital Assets

Introducing the Asset Based Intent Standard, an extension of the generalized intents framework of ERC-7521 to support intents for major digital asset use cases.

Introducing ERC-7521: Generalized Intents for Smart Contract Wallets

Introducing ERC-7521: Generalized Intents for Smart Contract Wallets

ERC-7521 introduces a single common interface for intent-based projects in the Ethereum ecosystem, unlocking future-proof access to the evolving intent landscape and securing long-term composability.

Introducing Essential: We Are Intents

Introducing Essential: We Are Intents

Essential is building intent-based infrastructure & tooling to accelerate the transition from value extraction to intent satisfaction.