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# Motivation

While blockchain aims to be a coordination medium, solving coordination problems onchain is complex in large part because developers have to reason about their application across multiple axes. 

Developers must not only manage state across multiple different segments of the application but must reason about how that that state mutates as the application progresses. Component *state* and its *coordination* evolve independently and at different rates. 

Reasoning about a web3 application is like trying to engineer a supply chain all in your head; reasoning across multiple products and their respective constraints and progress across a fragmented system. 

Because of this complexity, it is far too common that blockchain applications today are brittle, limited in scope, and costly to build.

### Simplify State Management 

Application state doesn’t just change at different rates—they change in different ways. Onchain state may update after a transaction, client-side state may change instantly in response to UI input, and backend state may depend on data fetched asynchronously from APIs. **All of this must work together.** 

State segmentation leads to **low** **visibility, latency, and overhead** to manage across the application. 

Existing tools treat state as static or siloed. **Great applications require *****dynamic, reactive***** state end-to-end.**

Concordance provides a runtime to unify state across the application,  **ensuring reliable and predictable mutation** across systems while abstracting the underlying complexity.

### Enable Complex Coordination 

**Once state is predictable, coordination becomes programmable.**

Today's standard of token transfer reduces onchain value to a one-dimensional unit, typically the token's fiat value. 

Real-world coordination is multi-dimensional and interconnected, and tokens alone cannot encode this complexity. 

Even simple coordination problems become hard with this base system. 

* Today, token mechanism design is done with reserves and minting schedules. What If I wanted a minting schedule based on the rate of change of another system?  
* Performing change over these tokenized assets via the blockchain is restricted to token transfers. What if I have a partnership and want to specify an asset split with some percent ownership? What if that ownership changes over time? 

Concordance unlocks new design space for developers to coordinate complex systems without maintaining infrastructure—bringing full visibility, composability, and performance to blockchain-based applications.