THORWallet integrated NEAR Intents on November 6, 2025 to enable cross-chain swaps that include Stellar Lumens (XLM), targeting DeFi users and product teams that need to move liquidity between chains without giving up custody. The functionality is available on web and mobile and simplifies exchanges across networks like Bitcoin, Ethereum, Solana, TRON and Stellar, influencing traders, self-custodial wallets and compliance teams that monitor multichain flows, according to the official announcement.
The integration adopts an “intents” model where users declare a desired outcome and third-party solvers compete to fulfill it, for example “swap Token A on Chain X for Token B on Chain Y,” shifting complexity away from the user and into a marketplace of solvers. This approach contrasts with traditional bridges that lock assets and mint wrapped tokens, reducing trust assumptions and fragmentation while increasing connectivity between ecosystems, as attributed by THORWallet.
Usage metrics cited in the release underscore growing multichain activity: THORWallet reports more than $1.7 billion in total swap volume, while NEAR Intents is referenced at approximately $3.0 billion (with more than $2.5 billion in less than a year) and over 6 million completed swaps; the note also mentions about $483 million in monthly trading volume for September.
Leadership and ecosystem signals point to self-custodial usability becoming a standard. “Users can now move liquidity freely between ecosystems without ever giving up custody, that’s what DeFi is meant to be,” said Marcel Harmann, CEO of THORWallet, emphasizing custody and usability. Additional adoptions by KyberSwap and Infinex reinforce the likelihood of intents becoming a coordination standard, supported by NEAR Protocol’s performance characteristics cited in the announcement—600 ms block time and 1.2 s finality.
Network reach extends beyond the initial set, with connected ecosystems including Stellar, Bitcoin, Ethereum, Solana, TRON, BNB Chain, ZEC and others, consolidating access from a single interface.
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A single interface can boost demand for multichain pairs by making XLM and other networks more accessible to users and teams that already operate across chains. This lowers switching costs and can accelerate integration roadmaps for wallets and applications that prioritize self-custody.
While competitive solvers can improve routing and deepen aggregated liquidity, potentially resulting in better execution as multiple fillers race to satisfy intents under market conditions, pooling liquidity sources without fragmenting assets into wrapped representations.
The next milestone will be continued adoption by integrators and the evolution of volume and swap counts, with this announcement positioning NEAR Intents as key infrastructure for faster multichain swaps that preserve user custody.
