Hassan Maishera
On Wednesday, the Near Protocol announced via X that Polygon is now live on NEAR Intents. Thanks to this latest integration, users can now swap native $POL, $ETH, $BTC, $SOL, $NEAR, $ZEC, and more. This is the first step towards Agentic Payments, the Near Protocol team added.
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 is trading at $2.434, down 4.6% in the last 24 hours.
Polygon (previously Matic Network) is the first well-structured, easy-to-use platform for Ethereum scaling and infrastructure development. Its core component is Polygon SDK, a modular, flexible framework that supports building multiple types of applications. POL is down 1.2% in the last 24 hours and trades at $0.2143.
