> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.intention.xyz/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Intention Labs

> The core team building the Intention L1 and Intention Exchange, the flagship perpetual futures DEX on top of it.

Intention Labs is the core engineering team developing both the **Intention** protocol — the deterministic kernel, the BFT consensus layer, and the protocol-native trading primitives — and **Intention Exchange**, the flagship perpetual futures DEX (`app.intention.xyz`) that is the first application to run on top of the protocol. The team's focus is on correctness, performance, and the long-term goal of making open financial markets a property of the protocol rather than of any application built on top of it.

## What we work on

* **IntentionKernel.** The deterministic state-transition kernel that executes typed financial primitives.
* **IntentionBFT.** The HotStuff-family consensus protocol with canonical sequencing, in-consensus price quorums, and batch availability decoupling.
* **Protocol-native trading engine.** The on-chain central limit order book, margin engine, liquidation pipeline, and funding system — all running as protocol state machines inside IntentionKernel, not as application contracts.
* **Intention Exchange.** The flagship perpetual futures DEX at `app.intention.xyz` — the first application to expose the L1's protocol-native primitives to traders.
* **Tooling.** The Differential Test Harness, the Verifiable Execution Stream, validator software, and the developer SDKs that will accompany the public API.

## Design rationale

Intention's design rationale is documented at length in the project whitepaper, which is available on request from `contact@intention.xyz`. The implementation itself is closed-source: the protocol's external behavior, guarantees, and integration surfaces are documented in this site, and that is where every public-facing question about Intention is meant to be answered.

## Contact

General inquiries, partnerships, integration questions, and press: `contact@intention.xyz`.

For security disclosures, see the [bug bounty](/risk-security/bug-bounty) page.