Brave Wallet now supports NEAR Intents

Today we add NEAR Intention on Bold wallet in our latest browser release (v1.88). The Brave Wallet enables access to multiple chains from the Brave browser, and NEAR Intents is the first exchange provider to tie together almost 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 more than 19 million exchanges and more than $14 billion in all time across 35 chains. NEAR Intents uses a new transaction architecture to extract cross-chain complexity and maximize performance, security and efficiency for DeFi applications, AI agents and end users.

This big step for Brave Wallet enables any-to-any chain exchange without the complexity associated with traditional bridges. Brave Wallet users now have a decentralized way to exchange assets like BTC and ZEC that traditionally lack DEX options.

For example, users can exchange assets from:

• Transparent ZEC to any chain
• Any chain to transparent ZEC
• Secure ZEC to any chain
• Any chain to shielded ZEC

Additionally, if the user spends shielded ZEC, they are always returned to the shielded pool in the event of a chargeback. Protected transactions use zero-knowledge tokens to hide the sender, receiver and amount of a transaction from the public blockchain. Secure 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 is 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, Carde-mano, and handling the EVMano system, and all of it manual. A big step towards 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 step toward making Web3 truly accessible to everyone.

Alex Shevchenko, CEO of the team behind NEAR Intents, Defuse Labssaid, “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 transact seamlessly across chains for anyone with access to a browser, anything from Bitcoin to Shielded Zcash. It’s a powerful example of how intent-based complexity, and restructuring in the hands of users.”

The addition of NEAR Intents to Brave Wallet is the latest step in the long-standing collaboration between Brave and NEAR.

About Brave Wallet

Brave Wallet is the secure, multi-chain crypto wallet built right into the Brave browser, no extensions required. Brave Wallet allows users to manage tokens and NFTs; connect to DApps and step on to Web3; and explore decentralized finance, social media, gaming and more. Brave Wallet users can link 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, supporting Web3 directly in the wider 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 Intentions:

NEAR Intents is the universal liquidity protocol that powers one-click cross-chain swaps and unified liquidity for onchain markets and signed assets. Leveraging a new intent-based transaction infrastructure that empowers users to express autonomous outcomes instead of managing routes, bridges, and liquidity sources, NEAR Intents unlocks frictionless cross-chain exchanges for DeFi users, trading for AI agents, and broad distribution for blockchains, dApps, and asset issuers. NEAR Intents has powered billions of dollars in volume through 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/.