Aori

• Name: Aori
• URL: https://www.aori.io/
• Category: cross-chain intent settlement protocol / solver-routed execution infrastructure
• Tags: ethereum-ecosystem
• Summary: Aori is solver-routed cross-chain execution plumbing. The interesting part is not the universal intent slogan; it is the combination of signed orders, offchain solver coordination, and LayerZero-mediated settlement. Useful as execution middleware, not as a canonical bridge or DEX anchor.
• What it does:
  • Lets wallets, DEXes, and trading apps request cross-chain swaps through Aori’s API, SDKs, and smart-contract protocol
  • Uses user-signed intents and solver-submitted orders for settlement rather than pooled-liquidity UX alone
  • Supports both cross-chain flows and single-chain swap flows through the same protocol family
  • Publishes deployment addresses and chain metadata for Ethereum, Base, Arbitrum, and Optimism
  • Provides REST and WebSocket APIs, a TypeScript SDK, a Rust SDK, and example order / status payloads for integrators
• Key claims:
  • The docs homepage says Aori is a “universal, trust-minimized intent settlement protocol” that connects users and solvers “from any chain to any chain” with low-latency execution and trustless settlement
  • The official protocol repo says Aori uses offchain infrastructure, onchain settlement contracts, and LayerZero messaging to facilitate omnichain trading
  • The repo documentation centers the design on an Order struct signed by users via EIP-712-style flows and fulfilled by solvers on source and destination chains
  • The protocol repo is especially useful because it documents both a cross-chain deposit / fill / settle path and a simpler single-chain atomic swap path, which makes the system look more like generalized execution infrastructure than a narrow bridge primitive
  • The repo notes that cross-chain cancellations were updated so they must route through the destination chain to avoid race conditions with settlement messages, which is an unusually concrete trust-and-safety detail for categorization
  • The docs surface includes live chain metadata, deployment addresses, quote payload examples, and order-status examples, which suggests the real source of truth is the docs + repo surface rather than a single research paper
• Whitepaper: No canonical Aori whitepaper or litepaper surfaced in this pass. The clearest current source of truth is the official docs plus the public protocol repository; see ../whitepapers/aori-primary-sources-2026-04-27.md.
• Sources:
  • https://www.aori.io/
  • https://docs.aori.io/
  • https://docs.aori.io/protocol/deployments
  • https://docs.aori.io/developers/chains
  • https://docs.aori.io/developers/orders
  • https://docs.aori.io/reference/quote
  • https://github.com/aori-io
  • https://github.com/aori-io/aori

Internal linkages

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Known onchain deployment addresses

• Ethereum: eip155:1:0x5F3CB376fb82402FcF6d917fD729542537b9C6ad

• Base: eip155:8453:0xF7c908EAA65FE48B201a5CD809Df9D28BdcB2C39

• Arbitrum One: eip155:42161:0x0e9018EEEbA45d70A9087d5d05295843afa3160a

• Optimism: eip155:10:0x684986544162a2c4cE4a6879981a4969b2c19E92

• Source note: these addresses come from the machine-readable supported-chains directory captured in ../whitepapers/aori-primary-sources-2026-04-27.md.

• Last reviewed: 2026-05-25 UTC