Why Haiku Intents?

The Transactional Trap of DeFi

Why do DeFi users insist on expressing their intents transactionally when there are clearly better ways? The answer is simple: it's because they can't. Blockchains were designed to be interacted with transactionally.

In the TradFi world, I’ve never heard anyone call their broker and ask “can you lend some of my USD and borrow some $AMZN and swap it to USD and then lend that back as collateral?”
They just say: “Short $AMZN.”

Likewise, you don’t want to lend some collateral, borrow ETH, and swap it to cbETH—no, you want to open a delta-neutral, liquid-staked ETH position.

DeFAI changes that. Haiku is ushering in this new paradigm, where users interact declaratively, focusing on outcomes, not execution steps. By breaking down the barriers of trade complexity, Haiku is enabling a smoother, smarter financial experience and overcoming the very complexity that has thus far stymied DeFi mass adoption.

Introducing Declarative Intents

If you want to swap a bunch of your coins so that you can open a delta-neutral staked LP position on Berachain, you don’t need to trust me when I say it’s a long and tedious process involving different types of transactions across different networks, protocols, and tokens.

Swap ETH to USDC on Uniswap (Arbitrum)
Swap WBTC to USDC on Uniswap (Arbitrum)
Swap AAVE to USDC on Uniswap (Arbitrum)
Swap UNI to USDC on Uniswap (Arbitrum)
Bridge USDC from Arbitrum to USDC.e on Berachain via Relay
Lend a portion of your USDC.e on Bend (Berachain)
Borrow WETH on Bend (Berachain)
Swap the remaining USDC.e to HONEY on Kodiak (Berachain)
Add liquidity to the 50WETH–50HONEY pool on Berahub
Stake your 50WETH–50HONEY LP tokens in Berahub Vaults

Programmatically, this can now be expressed as:

{
  				  "sell": {						
 						  "ETH(Arbitrum)": 0.332,
  						  "WBTC(Arbitrum)": 0.002,
  						  "AAVE(Arbitrum)": 6.97,
  						  "UNI(Arbitrum)": 23.29
				  },
				  "buy": {
					      "aUSDC.e[Bend](Berachain)": 47.5,
					      "varDebtWETH[Bend](Berachain)": 17.5,
					      "ST-50WETH-50HONEY[Berahub](Berachain)": 35.0
				  }
}
//

Or in natural language…

“Sell all my bluechips on Arbitrum to open a delta neutral staked WETH-HONEY position on Berachain.”

Long Tailed Intent Distributions & Limitations of LLMs

Now what if you wanted to diversify across multiple LSDs (liquid staking derivatives) instead of just cbETH or rebalance your delta neutral position since it became net short after a few days or move your position to a chain with more favorable interest rates? Existing solutions like Wayfinder struggle with such flexibility because they rely on predefined training data. DeFi trading is highly dynamic with a wide range of possibilities: sometimes you’d need to remove some collateral, repay some debt, add some to your long; other times you might need to borrow some more, swap it into your long, or remove some of your long, use some of it to repay some of your debt, add some additional collateral, etc… The point is, these permutations don’t fit neatly into an LLM’s learned patterns and will always be slower to their closed-form counterparts.

In contrast, Haiku has built a proprietary optimization and routing model that quantitatively derives the specific transactions that are needed to get you to your desired state, from a programmatic set of inputs and outputs (such as that in the above code block). We don’t need to rely on training data or external solvers to solve these intents. Our unique architecture allows us to route beyond swaps and solve intents that involve lending, borrowing, adding liquidity, removing liquidity, perps, and more across various protocols and networks. Haiku abstracts away the complexity of DeFi, packaging everything into a single transaction — whether you sign it in the Classic frontend or interact with it through Haiku Agent’s natural language interface.

Redefining On-Chain Trading

Haiku is redefining how everyone trades on chain. Just as smart order routers removed the need to choose which DEX to use for different tokens, Haiku removes the need to figure out which protocols to use or transactions to perform. You focus on your strategy—we’ll handle the execution and complexity behind the scenes.

This is the future of DeFi—or rather, DeFAI: frictionless, intent-driven, and as seamless as traditional finance, but with the power of on-chain transparency and composability. Haiku is leading the way.

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