what's near intents?
NEAR Intents is a chain abstraction protocol built on the NEAR Protocol, enabling users and AI agents to express desired outcomes as intents, which are then fulfilled by a decentralized network of solvers competing for optimal execution. Its core value proposition lies in abstracting away multichain complexities, allowing seamless cross-chain transactions without bridging, slippage, or user-managed liquidity routing. Key technical innovations include intent broadcasting for solver competition, Chain Signatures for secure multichain verification, and a Verifier smart contract on NEAR that settles executions atomically. It targets DeFi use cases like instant native asset swaps across chains (e.g., ETH, BTC, SOL on NEAR), OTC trading, stablecoin lending, and emerging agentic payments, positioning NEAR as a universal liquidity hub. Notable integrations include partnerships with Polygon, BNB Chain, Kyber Network, and Templar Protocol, driving over $2B in all-time volume within the NEAR ecosystem.
NEAR Intents hosts Intents Day v1 on Jan 22, showcasing the project, following a recent feature release.
Links
x.com/near_intentsHosts Intents Day v1, a livestream event on YouTube and X on January 22, 2026, from 1:30–5:00 PM EST, co-hosted by The Rollup and featuring panels showcasing NEAR Intents.
Released a most-requested feature in the app
Partnered with Orb Markets to enable NEAR token availability on Solana.
Integration with Loot Survivor enables cross-chain gaming where users on Solana, Base, and Arbitrum can play on Starknet through intent-based transactions and session keys for the "budokan" tournament.
HakoAgent page and waitlist go live on Aurora, powered by NEAR Intents for cross-chain stablecoin liquidity reallocation without signatures, gas fees, or manual steps.
Integration with Extended app enables one-click cross-chain deposits from Arbitrum to Starknet for xvs yield farming through intent transactions.
$NPRO token launches on NEAR Protocol and NEAR Intents in 3 days.
Platform launches on Starknet network very soon, enabling chain abstraction and cross-chain intent execution on the Layer 2 ecosystem.
Partnership with ADI Foundation and AiDatrics launches TravAI, a travel platform powered by NEAR AI and NEAR Intents for cross-chain and agent-to-agent transactions.
Platform positioned as action execution layer for AI agent developers across web3, with web2 integration coming soon.
Trading volume hits $7 billion, marking another all-time high for the platform.
Monthly trading volume surpassed $4 billion in November, up over 100% month-over-month.
Platform goes live on CoW Swap mainnet as primary cross-chain provider in two-way integration between leading intent-based infrastructures.
Platform integration goes live on OneKey wallet, enabling cross-chain swaps and NEAR L1 support for OneKey users.
Platform now natively available as swap provider in Ledger Wallet across 7.5M+ devices and expands to Litecoin for multichain liquidity. Platform reaches 120+ supported assets with integrations including Templar Protocol zypher lending, Allora mainnet, THORSwap Polygon expansion, and ConsumerFi's Kinsu app beta launch.
Market makers can list coins on the platform without listing fees, farm-and-dump schemes, donations, or other conditions.
Platform integrates with SWEAT to enable chain-abstracted wallet functionality across 5 chains, with transaction fees paid in $SWEAT token.
Platform announces integration with BitgetWallet, expanding its wallet partnership ecosystem.
Partnership with Monad blockchain announced, with near_intents powering usability and liquidity for the chain-abstracted platform.
Platform achieves 6B in total volume.
Platform integrates with Zashi, Ledger, Trust, Infinex, and Kyber wallets and apps, while first institutional traders begin using the service for best price execution and asset access.
The platform adds SPX6900 token support, allowing single-click swaps from 120+ cross-chain assets.
Total platform volume reaches approximately $5B all-time with $500M in Zcash flows over recent months.
Platform reaches 540k monthly retail users and nearly $3B in volume over the past 30 days, with order flow consisting purely of retail traders without arbitrage bot activity.
All-time fees surpass $10M.
Coin Metrics features the platform in its State of the Network report, citing it as one of the cross-chain rails that meaningfully lowered friction for on-chain privacy adoption during Zcash's recent rally.
Users adopt the platform for private cross-chain swaps into ZEC through the Zashi app, driving the recent volume growth.
Platform generates $7.2M in fees this month. Rhea Finance, the main DEX for NEAR, integrates as first cross-chain lending protocol supporting native ZCash with borrowing capabilities across Base, Solana, Ethereum, and NEAR chains.
DCA (Dollar Cost Averaging) feature now available for Zcash on the platform.
Smart contracts can now call near_intents to execute trades and receive callbacks on completion, with @out_layer enabling enhanced programmability features.
A hackathon launches for developers to build privacy-focused ZEC (Zcash) products using the platform and Chain Signatures.
Platform reaches $5 billion in all-time trading volume.
Unified liquidity expands to Coin98 wallet.
NEAR Intents adds Litecoin integration, enabling swaps between LTC and 120+ assets across major chains including BTC, ETH, SOL, ADA, USDC, and USDT.
Near Intents hits $4B total volume with exponential acceleration: first $1B took 305 days, latest $1B took only 8 days, with revenue funding direct $NEAR token buybacks.
More Markets builds multichain yield vaults on top of NEAR Intents and Chain Signatures.
ConsumerFi launches $CFI token sale Nov 13 on Calyx platform with $0.01 sale price and $0.04 listing price. Platform already processes 32B+ data points with 900K+ monthly users across apps with 150M+ downloads.
THORSwap now integrates NEAR Intents for cross-chain access including Polygon.
Near co-founder promotes Rhea Finance as the go-to lending protocol and DEX built on Zcash and powered by the protocol, with RHEA at a $10M market cap compared to NEAR's $3.75B and ZEC's $10.7B market caps.
Lending feature goes live through Rhea Finance partnership, enabling users to borrow against ZEC collateral instead of selling their holdings.
Recent 7-day flow composition is 65% from coins other than ZEC, with ZEC representing only 16% of total flow historically. HOT wallet ranks #1 in usage and provides critical infrastructure components for the protocol while supporting 140+ chains.
All-time trading volume surpasses $4 billion.
$800M flows through the protocol in 30 days, with 70% of transaction fees burned and ZEC representing 10-30% of total Intent volume.
Integration with TON blockchain goes live through TON Meme Republic partnership, enabling cross-chain swaps from Ethereum, Solana, and Base to TON meme tokens.
The protocol generates $1.7M in fees this week.
Near Intents processes $65M+ in volume today with an additional $46M+ on Rhea Finance (which runs on Near Intents infrastructure), targeting a new all-time high in daily traded volume primarily driven by ZEC DEX trading.
The protocol is now available in Ledger Wallet through SwapKit integration, allowing users to perform cross-chain intent-based swaps across ETH, BTC, NEAR, and other chains.
Integration with Stellar blockchain completed, handling approximately $20M in daily volume.
30-day trading volume surpasses $2 billion.
The protocol receives CoinDesk coverage highlighting its privacy-preserving infrastructure for Zcash transactions without bridges or exposed addresses.
New all-time high volume of $200M+ recorded, nearly double the previous $109M ATH from November 2.
Privacy-focused discussion scheduled for November 5, 3-4 PM EST involving the protocol, Infinex, and ZCash with new information to be shared.
The protocol is now the #1 bridge by volume.
Protocol records $109M daily volume ATH during weekend with market share expanding to 35%, while becoming main ZEC liquidity venue and adding integrations with Zashi app for direct swaps and StableFlow for native USDT bridging processing 7-figure transactions.
Beratown platform integrates the protocol to enable BERA to ZEC cross-chain swaps.
Integration with LI.FI cross-chain bridge aggregator launches soon.
ZEC goes live on Infinex platform through NEAR Intents integration.
Raydium unifies cross-chain liquidity through integration with the protocol.
Protocol reaches #1 ranking with over 20% market share on October 12th while processing $1B+ in 30-day volume. Upcoming protocol upgrade enables 1-1 stablecoin swaps for improved capital efficiency.
Bridge/swap volume is now tracked and categorized under "Bridges" and "Intent-based" categories on data aggregation platforms.
ATA/01 product launches soon on NEAR, enabling autonomous agent trading strategies and Dollar Cost Averaging (DCA) functionality for users.
$ZEC is the largest volume volatile asset used on the platform following Zashi app CrossPay integration that enables direct ZEC withdrawals, with adoption increasing in October.
NEAR Intents reaches $2B in total volume, up from $280M+ reported in June 2024. Protocol expands to 9 shards with 100% uptime and launches NEAR AI initiative focused on privacy-preserving artificial intelligence.
Protocol reaches $280M+ volume with 530k+ swaps, adds THORSwap and SwapKit integrations, expands to support TRX, DOGE, XRP markets
BNB Chain integration enables native token swaps for BNB, ETH, BTC, SOL, NEAR, and ZEC without bridging or slippage.
Major upgrade adding passkey authentication and OTC trading features. Integrated by Infinex, Templar Protocol, Kyber Network, Satoshi Port, and Rhea Finance.