Stargate Finance integrates NEAR Intents for cross-chain swaps

Stargate Finance, the cross-chain liquidity protocol built on LayerZero, is plugging into NEAR Intents to power select cross-chain swaps and routes. The integration connects Stargate’s unified liquidity pools with NEAR’s solver network, which lets users specify what they want (say, swapping USDC on Arbitrum for USDT on Optimism) without having to manually chart the path to get there. What NEAR Intents actually does Users declare an outcome, like “I want token X on chain Y,” and a competitive network of solvers races to fulfill that request at the best possible price. The user doesn’t need to know which bridge was used, which liquidity pool was tapped, or how many intermediary hops were involved. NEAR Intents has processed over $24 billion in cumulative cross-chain swap volume across 34 chains, supporting more than 125 assets. For Stargate specifically, this means its existing liquidity pools, which have historically concentrated on stablecoins like USDT and USDC, now gain access to NEAR’s solver infrastructure. Why this pairing makes strategic sense Stargate launched in March 2022 with unified liquidity pools that allow native asset transfers across chains without wrapped tokens. N...