Brave Wallet now supports NEAR Intents
Today we’re adding NEAR Intents to Brave Wallet in our latest browser release (v1.88). The Brave Wallet enables multi-chain access right from the Brave browser, and NEAR Intents is the first swap provider that ties together nearly all of our supported blockchains: Bitcoin, Solana, Zcash, Cardano, and EVM (including Ethereum, Base, Arbitrum, etc).
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.
This major step for Brave Wallet enables any-to-any chain swaps without the complexity that comes with traditional bridges. Brave Wallet users now have a decentralized way to swap assets like BTC and ZEC that traditionally lack DEX options.
For instance, users could swap assets from:
- Transparent ZEC to any chain
- Any chain to transparent ZEC
- Shielded ZEC to any chain
- Any chain to shielded ZEC
Additionally, if the user is spending shielded ZEC, they are always returned back to the shielded pool in case of a refund. Shielded transactions use zero-knowledge proofs to hide the sender, receiver, and amount of a transaction from the public blockchain. Shielded transactions with Zcash in Brave Wallet give users a way to send and store crypto privately.
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. 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.”
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.”
Adding NEAR Intents to Brave Wallet is the latest step in the longstanding collaboration between Brave and NEAR.
About Brave Wallet
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. Learn more at brave.com.
About NEAR Intents:
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. Learn more at https://intents.near.org/.
