Hassan Maishera
On Wednesday, the Near Protocol announced via X that NEAR Intents is now integrated into Brave Wallet, bringing completely new cross-chain connections to Brave’s 110M+ monthly active users.
NEAR Intents is the first swap provider to unify Brave Wallet’s supported blockchains, including Bitcoin, Solana, Zcash, Cardano, and EVM chains like Ethereum, Base, Arbitrum, and more.
Users can now access NEAR Intents directly from their wallet in the Brave browser. NEAR Intents connects any chain, any asset, and any agent, and has executed over 19 million swaps and over $14 billion in all-time volume across 35 chains. NEAR Intents uses a novel transaction architecture to abstract away cross-chain complexity and maximize performance, security, and efficiency for DeFi apps, AI agents, and end users.
James Mudgett, VP of Web3 at Brave, said,
“The integration of NEAR Intents marks a big step in Brave Wallet’s mission to make moving assets across blockchains simple, secure, and most importantly, intuitive, for everyone. Users can now move a wide variety of assets across chains, from Bitcoin and Zcash to Solana, Cardano, and the EVM ecosystem, all without bridges or manual gas handling."
NEAR Protocol’s Near Intents has been gaining traction in recent months, with several adoptions including Avalanche, Aurora Labs, Plasma, and Li.Fi
NEAR Protocol is a decentralized application platform designed to make apps similarly usable to those on today’s web. The network runs on a Proof-of-Stake (PoS) consensus mechanism called Nightshade, which aims to provide dynamic scalability and stabilize fees.
NEAR combines three core elements: User-Owned AI, which ensures agents act in users’ best interests; Intents and Chain Abstraction, which eliminate blockchain complexity for seamless, goal-driven transactions across chains; and a sharded blockchain architecture that delivers the scalability, speed, and low-cost execution needed for real-world AI and Web3 use. NEAR is trading at $1.36, up 5.2% in the last 24 hours.
