DeFi today requires users to manually coordinate swaps, lending, borrowing, liquidity provision and cross-chain interactions. This fragmented approach is inefficient and leads to higher costs and increased execution risk, introducing the following challenges to traders:

• High complexity - users must interact with multiple protocols, often requiring several transactions and manual calculations to complete a single strategy.

• Gas inefficiency - each transaction incurs separate gas fees, increasing costs.

• Execution risk - market volatility can lead to price slippage and failed transactions.

• MEV exposure - front-running and sandwich attacks can impact trade outcomes.

• Manual coordination - users must actively monitor and manage trades across chains and protocols.

But the problem is bigger than this... Trading is about speed and execution - getting the right positions at the right time. DeFi fails at this because it is disjointed and built around primitives (swap, lend, etc) and protocols - not trader outcomes.

Haiku simplifies trading. Users define their desired portfolio outcomes - not individual transactions. Haiku Intents determines the optimal execution path and executes all necessary steps in a single set of atomic transactions.

Haiku integrates with third-party DeFi protocols, such as Kodiak, Bex, 0x, Aave, and Uniswap, enabling users to execute transactions across these platforms seamlessly. Haiku directly facilitates execution on existing infrastructure without providing its own liquidity or lending markets.

Haiku Intents empowers traders with the following advantages:

• Lower gas fees - Haiku bundles multiple operations into a single block.

• Atomic execution - All steps in a trade execute together or none at all.

• Optimised routing - Haiku finds the best trade path across all integrated protocols.

• Simplified interaction - Users focus on their desired outcomes, not the path to get there.

Haiku is an execution-first intent system designed for DeFi traders, protocols, and AI agents. Haiku executes multi-step, cross-protocol transactions with built-in optimisation - unlike SORs, which optimise swaps across liquidity sources, or solver-based intent networks like Hyperlane Open Interoperability Framework (OIF) and ERC-7683, which rely on external solvers for cross-chain execution. Haiku eliminates third-party solver dependencies, ensuring faster execution, lower costs, and greater precision, making it the superior choice for trading complex DeFi strategies.