NEAR Intents Expands Seamless Multi-Chain Swaps to Brave Wallet

As the first swap provider to unify Brave Wallet’s supported blockchains, NEAR Intents integration brings industry-first any-to-any chain swaps and shielded ZEC privacy to Brave Wallet

NEAR Intents, the universal trading protocol for on-chain markets and tokenized assets, today announced its integration into Brave Wallet as part of Brave’s latest browser release (v1.88). NEAR Intents becomes the first swap provider in Brave Wallet to unify virtually all of the wallet’s supported blockchains, including Bitcoin, Solana, Zcash, Cardano, and EVM-compatible networks such as Ethereum, Base, and Arbitrum, bringing seamless any-to-any chain swaps to 110 million Brave browser users directly from their Wallet.

Having executed over 19 million swaps and more than $14 billion in all-time cross-chain volume across 35 blockchains, NEAR Intents brings its intent-based transaction architecture to one of the world’s most widely used privacy wallets. By abstracting away the complexity of bridges, gas management, and routing, NEAR Intents enables Brave Wallet users to define the outcome they want. Meanwhile, the infrastructure handles execution behind the scenes, delivering exchange-grade cross-chain trading without requiring users to leave their browser or navigate fragmented multi-chain workflows.

Alex Shevchenko, CEO of the team behind NEAR Intents, Defuse Labs, said, “Brave sits at the heart of Web3, connecting hundreds of millions of users to the next generation of digital finance. Integrating NEAR Intents into Brave unlocks the freedom to trade seamlessly across chains for anybody with access to a browser, anything from Bitcoin to Shielded Zcash. It’s a powerful example of how intent-based infrastructure can redefine access, simplify complexity, and put privacy back into the hands of users.”

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Utilizing advanced zero-knowledge proofs, these transactions keep the sender, receiver, and amount of a transaction completely private on the public blockchain. To maximize user confidence, any necessary refunds for shielded ZEC are automatically and securely returned to the dedicated shielded pool.

James Mudgett, VP of Web3 at Brave Software, 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. It’s a major step toward making cross-chain interaction feel natural and frictionless. For users, it means moving value anywhere becomes as easy as sending a message, and for the ecosystem, it’s another stride toward making Web3 truly accessible to everyone.”

The Brave Wallet integration is the latest expansion of NEAR Intents’ growing distribution network, which already spans leading DeFi protocols, wallet providers, and AI platforms, and has powered cross-chain volume for partners including Ledger, SwapKit, and RHEA Finance. It builds on a longstanding collaboration between NEAR and Brave, extending NEAR Intents’ reach to one of Web3’s most active consumer touchpoints.

NEAR Intents is the universal liquidity protocol powering one-click cross-chain swaps and unified liquidity for onchain markets and tokenized assets. Using a novel intent-based transaction infrastructure that empowers users to express outcomes instead of managing routes, bridges, and liquidity sources, NEAR Intents unlocks frictionless cross-chain swaps for DeFi users, autonomous trading for AI agents, and broad distribution for blockchains, dApps, and asset issuers. NEAR Intents has powered billions of dollars in volume across leading chains and assets and is now natively integrated into major DeFi protocols, wallet providers, traditional financial systems, and AI platforms, bringing instant and verifiable execution to global markets.

Brave Wallet is the secure, multi-chain crypto wallet built directly into the Brave browser, no extensions required. With Brave Wallet, users can manage tokens and NFTs; connect to DApps and onramp to Web3; and explore decentralized finance, social media, gaming, and more. Brave Wallet users can connect other “hot” wallets, or “cold” wallets like Ledger & Trezor. They can buy, store, send, and connect to DApps on Solana, Ethereum, Cardano and EVM chains, and the Filecoin chain. Brave is a driving force leading the way for Web3 adoption, directly supporting Web3 into the broader Web through its privacy-preserving browser, independent search engine, and browser-native, multi-chain crypto wallet. Brave currently has 110 million monthly active users.

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