NEAR Intents Brings Lightning-Fast Cross-chain Swaps to Sui

Sui has integrated NEAR Intents, a product from the NEAR blockchain, to dramatically simplify cross-chain interactions. This collaboration enables instant asset swaps across 20+ chains and 80+ assets, all without requiring bridges or gas management. Users express an intent, and automated solvers optimize the transaction path behind the scenes. The timing aligns with Sui’s rapid DeFi growth, now exceeding $1.7B in TVL and $8.1B in monthly DEX volume, indicating strong momentum in the Layer 1 ecosystem.

Key Ideas

Intent-driven Cross-chain UX: NEAR Intents abstracts away bridging and gas handling by letting users specify their desired outcome—improving speed and user experience across chains.
Accelerating Interoperability for Sui DeFi: The integration expands developer capabilities to embed seamless multi-chain swaps directly into dApps, fueling adoption and network liquidity.

Why It Matters?

Developers can integrate NEAR Intents into Sui-based applications to enable fast, gasless, cross-chain swaps for over 80 assets across 20+ chains. This dramatically improves UX and allows developers to build interoperable DeFi platforms that benefit from Sui's growing liquidity and simplified transaction flows.

NEAR Intents provides a competitive advantage through simplified onboarding, real-time execution, and access to liquidity from external ecosystems—all of which reduce customer churn and increase conversion. Strategic investments in NEAR–Sui integration or partnerships around intent-native services could position companies ahead in user-centric Web3 innovation.