NEAR Confidential Intents TVL Surges Past $26M

Private Transactions Gain Ground on NEAR Protocol

NEAR Protocol's Confidential Intents has crossed $26 million in total value locked, according to data cited by Delphi Digital, as the protocol's privacy layer draws growing adoption across the DeFi ecosystem. Nearly half of all volume on $NEAR's primary trading venue is now routed through private intents, a figure that underlines how quickly the feature has moved from novelty to core infrastructure.

Confidential Intents is built directly into the NEAR Intents cross-chain execution system. Users can toggle between a standard account and a confidential account, opting into privacy across transfers, deposits, and withdrawals while maintaining verifiable on-chain execution. Transaction details including sender addresses, amounts, and routing paths are processed inside a dedicated private shard connected to NEAR's mainnet via a Trusted Execution Environment (TEE) bridge, keeping them hidden from public block explorers during execution.

Cross-Chain Reach and the MEV Problem

The protocol currently supports private transactions across more than 35 blockchains. NEAR Protocol's launch materials described the interface as connecting those chains through a single account, enabling cross-chain swaps, peer-to-peer settlement, and optional confidential flows without manual bridging or routing.

The core problem Confidential Intents addresses is well established in DeFi: public ledgers expose pending transactions to front-runners and MEV bots, which can see order size, timing, and routing before execution and act accordingly. By processing transaction details inside a private shard, the feature removes that visibility window, eliminating MEV extraction, frontrunning, and forced liquidations from visible positions.

The $26 million TVL milestone arrives as NEAR Intents continues to expand its reach. Prior to its recent Brave Wallet integration, NEAR Intents had already executed over 19 million swaps and more than $14 billion in all-time cross-chain volume across 35 blockchains. The Brave Wallet integration, available as of browser version 1.88, brings NEAR Intents to 110 million Brave browser users and makes it 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.

Sources:
PR Newswire: NEAR Unveils Confidential Cross-Chain Infrastructure
Global Fintech Series: NEAR Intents Expands to Brave Wallet
Brave: Brave Wallet Now Supports NEAR Intents