NEAR Intents

NEAR Intents is the universal trading protocol powering one-click cross-chain swaps and unified liquidity for onchain markets and tokenized assets. Instead of manually managing routes, bridges, and liquidity sources, users just state the outcome they want, and NEAR Intents handles the rest.

It’s now live inside Solflare, powering Solflare Bridge, a feature that lets you deposit assets from other chains and land Solana assets directly in your wallet. Here’s what NEAR Intents is and how it works.

What Is NEAR Intents?

NEAR Intents is a novel intent-based transaction infrastructure built on NEAR. Rather than asking users to pick a route, choose a bridge, and hope there’s enough liquidity on the other side, it lets them express an outcome instead, like “BTC for SOL,” and the protocol figures out how to deliver it.

This unlocks frictionless cross-chain swaps for DeFi users, autonomous trading for AI agents (an intent is just as easy for a bot to submit as it is for a person), and broad distribution for blockchains, dApps, and asset issuers looking to reach users outside their own chain.

How It Works

• You state an intent. Instead of picking a specific route or bridge, you declare what you want, for example, “swap BTC for SOL.” No manual routing, no separate bridge step.
  
• Solvers compete to fill it. Independent market makers, called solvers, quote against each other for the right to fill your intent at the best available price.
  
• A smart contract settles it. A verifier contract validates the winning quote and executes the swap, so no single relayer or custodian controls execution.
  
• You receive the native asset. This is the part that differs from a typical bridge: you get real SOL on Solana, not a wrapped token you then have to convert. NEAR Intents uses threshold signatures to let assets stay on the chain they belong to, so the deposit lands as native Solana assets.

Solflare Bridge: Deposit From Any Chain Into Solana

On Solflare, NEAR Intents along with Aurora Intents powers Solflare Bridge, a feature built directly into the wallet. Instead of visiting a separate bridge site or connecting a third-party dApp, Solflare users can deposit assets from major chains, say BTC, and receive Solana assets directly, with no extra wallet or dApp connection needed. NEAR Intents powers the routing behind the scenes, from quoting through settlement.

Built for More Than Swaps

NEAR Intents has powered billions of dollars in volume across leading chains and assets, and it’s now natively integrated into major DeFi protocols, wallet providers, traditional financial systems, and AI platforms. That reach is what makes Solflare Bridge run smoothly. The same intent infrastructure that routes a swap for a DeFi trader or an autonomous AI agent is what lets a Solflare user deposit BTC and land SOL, bringing instant and verifiable execution to global markets without leaving the wallet.

Learn more at near.org/intents.