Question 1

What is Enso?

Accepted Answer

Enso is a decentralized shared network designed to generate executable bytecode for smart contracts across multiple blockchains, rollups, and appchains. It functions as an “intent engine,” allowing developers to define their desired outcomes—called intents—while the network automatically determines how to fulfil them through coordinated on-chain computation.

Built as a Tendermint-based Layer 1 blockchain, Enso maps all smart contract interactions in a single shared state. This enables developers to combine and interact with any smart contract on any chain through one unified interface. The goal of Enso is to solve the usability and composability challenges that arise from blockchain fragmentation, making it possible to build cross-chain applications without custom integration for each network:contentReference[oaicite:0]{index=0}.

Question 2

What is the ENSO Token?

Accepted Answer

ENSO is the native token that powers the Enso network. It underpins all network operations, governance, and incentive mechanisms.

**Gas payments:** ENSO is used to pay transaction fees and execute requests on the network.  
**Governance:** Token holders participate in voting on upgrades, economic parameters, and protocol modifications.  
**Staking:** Validators, Graphers, and Action Providers stake ENSO to secure the network and can be slashed for malpractice.  
**Delegation:** Holders may delegate their tokens to network participants to strengthen network security and share in staking rewards.

ENSO is essential for coordinating and maintaining the network’s decentralized economy, ensuring fair compensation for contributors who provide verified computations, smart contract abstractions, and network validation.

Question 3

How does Enso work?

Accepted Answer

Enso introduces a universal model for blockchain interaction through four main participant roles.

**Action Providers:** Developers who contribute smart contract abstractions—templates describing how contracts can be executed and composed. They earn a portion of consumption fees whenever their abstraction is used.  
**Graphers:** Algorithms and operators that process developer intents, traversing the network’s abstraction map to generate executable bytecode that achieves the desired outcome.  
**Validators:** Nodes that authenticate abstractions, verify computation results, and determine the optimal solution to each intent.  
**Consumers:** Users or developers who submit requests to the network by expressing their desired result in natural or structured form.

Each request is treated as an intent: a statement of “what” the user wants rather than “how” to achieve it. Enso participants coordinate to produce a verified solution in the form of bytecode that can be executed on the target blockchain.

This system enables developers to interact with any smart contract or combination of contracts across chains by making a single request to the Enso network. The result is a fully composable layer that abstracts away the complexity of blockchain interoperability:contentReference[oaicite:1]{index=1}.

Question 4

Technical architecture

Accepted Answer

Enso’s architecture combines data abstraction, execution coordination, and validation within a unified network state.

- The **Requesting** layer manages intent submissions and specifies desired outcomes.  
- The **Action Submission** process determines valid abstraction contributions and their associated metadata.  
- The **Solution Aggregation** layer evaluates competing proposals from Graphers and selects the optimal solution based on cost, efficiency, and execution correctness.

To ensure trustless operation, Validators simulate each solution by forking the relevant chain’s latest state, executing the proposed bytecode, and verifying results through on-chain view functions. Only the most efficient and correct solution is finalized, while others are discarded to prevent network bloat.

Each abstraction and interaction is stored within the Enso network map, forming a continuously expanding dataset of verified smart contract relationships. Over time, this creates a universal reference for composable, executable interactions across all supported chains.

Question 5

Applications

Accepted Answer

Enso’s intent-based architecture supports a wide range of use cases:

- Cross-chain composability and contract orchestration  
- Automated DeFi strategy generation and execution  
- Interoperable NFT and gaming economies  
- Cross-chain governance and execution frameworks  
- AI agents capable of blockchain-native execution through intents

By abstracting complexity, Enso provides a universal gateway to interact with any smart contract on any blockchain, enabling developers to build applications that are both cross-chain and fully autonomous.

Question 6

Who created Enso?

Accepted Answer

Enso was founded and developed by Connor Howe, Peter Phillips, and Milos Costantini in 2024. Their combined work focuses on solving blockchain usability and composability through shared network infrastructure and automated intent resolution. The founders’ experience in distributed systems and blockchain development underpins Enso’s design as a coordination and execution layer for the multi-chain ecosystem.

#	Instrument	Exchange	Benchmark Score	Price	24h Change	24h Volume	24h Trades	24h Open	24h High
1	ENSO-USDT ENSOUSDT	binance	AA	0.9900USDT	-1.79%	447,526.05ENSO	11,833	1.01USDT	1.02USDT
2	ENSO-USDT ENSO_USDT	whitebit	BB	0.9900USDT	-1.79%	149,420.32ENSO	3,968	1.01USDT	1.02USDT
3	ENSO-USDT ENSOUSDT	bybit	A	0.9895USDT	-1.70%	83,905.75ENSO	2,719	1.01USDT	1.02USDT
4	ENSO-TRY ENSOTRY	binance	AA	48.60TRY	-2.02%	72,316.48ENSO	308	49.60TRY	50.00TRY
5	ENSO-USDT ENSOUSDT_SPBL	bitget	BB	0.9885USDT	-1.89%	58,183.49ENSO	1,186	1.01USDT	1.02USDT
6	ENSO-USDC ENSOUSDC	binance	AA	0.9900USDC	-1.88%	24,738.44ENSO	190	1.01USDC	1.02USDC
7	ENSO-USDT ENSO_USDT	gateio	A	0.9892USDT	-1.81%	21,667.30ENSO	569	1.01USDT	1.02USDT
8	ENSO-USDT ENSO-USDT	kucoin	BB	0.9899USDT	-1.71%	10,990.09ENSO	156	1.01USDT	1.01USDT
9	ENSO-USD ENSOUSD	kraken	AA	0.9910USD	-1.49%	3,898.56ENSO	38	1.01USD	1.02USD
10	ENSO-EUR ENSOEUR	kraken	AA	0.8770EUR	-2.45%	3,564.30ENSO	22	0.8990EUR	0.9110EUR
11	ENSO-KRW KRW-ENSO	upbit	B	1,339.00KRW	-1.54%	679,657.65ENSO	2,160	1,360.00KRW	1,376.00KRW
12	ENSO-USDT ENSO_USDT	p2pb2b	D	0.9890USDT	-1.88%	314,964.56ENSO	10,340	1.01USDT	1.02USDT
13	ENSO-KRW ENSO_KRW	bithumbkorea	-	1,329.00KRW	-1.85%	207,252.16ENSO	663	1,354.00KRW	1,391.00KRW
14	ENSO-USDT ENSOUSDT	toobit	C	0.9910USDT	-1.59%	102,011.86ENSO	5,923	1.01USDT	1.02USDT
15	ENSO-USDT enso_usdt	lbank	C	0.9897USDT	-1.78%	100,280.79ENSO	4,834	1.01USDT	1.02USDT
16	ENSO-USDT enso_usdt	xtpub	-	0.9890USDT	-1.88%	82,888.82ENSO	1,759	1.01USDT	1.02USDT
17	ENSO-USDT ENSO_USDT	bitunix	C	0.9900USDT	-1.79%	75,416.78ENSO	6,505	1.01USDT	1.02USDT
18	ENSO-USDC ENSO_USDC	cryptology	D	0.9899USDC	-1.68%	69,211.69ENSO	1,404	1.01USDC	1.02USDC
19	ENSO-USDT ENSO_USDT	cryptology	D	0.9896USDT	-1.87%	67,815.62ENSO	1,388	1.01USDT	1.02USDT
20	ENSO-USDT ENSOUSDT	mexc	C	0.9895USDT	-1.83%	68,712.54ENSO	2,953	1.01USDT	1.02USDT
21	ENSO-USDT ENSO-USDT	bingx	D	0.9890USDT	-1.88%	43,166.77ENSO	5,919	1.01USDT	1.02USDT
22	ENSO-EUR ENSO-EUR	bitvavo	B	0.8808EUR	-2.21%	32,140.99ENSO	1,335	0.9007EUR	0.9069EUR
23	ENSO-USDT ENSO-USDT	bigone	-	0.9880USDT	-1.79%	16,991.37ENSO	2,332	1.01USDT	1.02USDT
24	ENSO-USDT enso_usdt	digifinex	D	0.9910USDT	-1.69%	13,187.97ENSO	3,189	1.01USDT	1.02USDT
25	ENSO-USDT ensousdt	huobipro	C	0.9878USDT	-1.95%	6,283.63ENSO	122	1.01USDT	1.02USDT
26	ENSO-USDC ENSO_USDC	p2pb2b	D	0.9900USDC	-1.88%	5,261.71ENSO	90	1.01USDC	1.01USDC
27	ENSO-BTC BTC-ENSO	upbit	B	0.0₄1179BTC	0.00%	15.83ENSO	1	0.0₄1179BTC	0.0₄1179BTC
28	ENSO-USDT ENSOUSDT	hitbtc	E	0.9007USDT	0.00%	0ENSO	0	0.9007USDT	0.9007USDT
29	ENSO-THB THB_ENSO	bitkub	C	32.37THB	0.00%	9.64ENSO	2	32.37THB	32.37THB
30	ENSO-USDT ENSOUSDT	coinex	C	0.9991USDT	0.00%	0ENSO	0	0.9991USDT	0.9991USDT
31	ENSO-USDT USDT-ENSO	upbit	B	0.8732USDT	0.00%	0ENSO	0	0.8732USDT	0.8732USDT