Ten Billion Swaps Revealed: The Quiet Engine Behind Crypto’s Boom

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NEAR Intents, forged by hands that once hammered the NEAR Protocol into a morning’s silhouette, claimed to be the fastest-growing cross-chain instrument of 2025. It rose with the grim charm of a factory whistle: loud, numbers-washed, and perhaps a touch melodramatic. And in 2026 it persists, tallying ten billion in all-time volume, sustained by the industry’s polite weather and the patient, practically ritual adoption of the big players. A march, not a sprint, with the clock as its accomplice. 😅

Coinspeaker pulled the ledger from Dune Analytics on January 16, recording the milestone. Since its birth, NEAR Intents has ferried through 15.7 million swaps and wrung more than $17 million in fees, the bulk arriving in the second half of 2025, like a late but generous paycheck from a distant bureaucratic god. 💰

From that ten-billion ledger, the last thirty days contributed $2.15 billion, 20% of the total, carried by 541,075 unique addresses. The past week added over $600 million in cross-chain swaps, by 137,961 distinct addresses. The system hums, and the hum sounds suspiciously like order. 🤔

NEAR Intents data dashboard as of January 16, 2026 | Source: Dune Analytics

NEAR Intents Growth, Adoption, and Industry Support

A retrospective on near.org spoke of NEAR Intents as the “fastest-growing cross-chain infrastructure,” a line that could have been written in a ledger’s sigh. NEARWEEK on X echoed the refrain, noting 28 chains integrated and partnerships with wallets, networks, protocols, and more-the sort of chorus that makes you wonder if the numbers are singing or the editors are. 🎭

In 2025 @near_intents put pedal to the metal and became the fastest growing cross-chain infrastructure.

– 28 chains- Partner integrations with @bitgetwallet, @ledger, @trustwallet, @kybernetwork, @OpenOceanGlobal, @infinex, @starknet, @shapeshift, @zashi_app, @adichain_,…

– NEARWEEK (@NEARWEEK) January 16, 2026

On October 30, Coinspeaker reported a sub-$3 billion all-time volume and a growing crypto industry support for NEAR Intents. Three months later, the all-time volume more than tripled, accompanied by a visible uptick in adoption and industry backing. It reads like a letter from a ledger: the figures go up, and so does the smile of the merchants. 😏

For example, NEAR received the best privacy project award from The Rollup for enabling easy ZEC swaps in a privacy-focused, trust-minimized venue. “The Zcash

ZEC
$411.1

24h volatility:
1.0%

Market cap:
$6.78 B

Vol. 24h:
$520.83 M

trade would not have happened without NEAR Intents.”

Andy and Rob crown NEAR as Best in Privacy winner. The catalyst?

“The Zcash trade would not have happened without NEAR Intents”

They’re integrating AI with DeFi through Intents across 25+ chains, serving 100 million+ users with unmatched end-to-end data privacy.

– The Rollup (@therollupco) December 30, 2025

Moreover, Cake Wallet-a leading privacy wallet-added support for Zcash and implemented NEAR Intents for in-app swaps on January 15. Cake founder Vik Sharma commented on X that he is “pleasantly surprised at the volume of Near Intents activity in Cake after launching it along with Zcash.”

I’m pleasantly surprised at the volume of Near Intents activity in Cake after launch it along with Zcash

– Vik Sharɱa 🇺🇸 (@vikrantnyc) January 16, 2026

NEAR Intents has been enabling unprecedented blockchain integrations like the Solana-Starknet partnership announced this Thursday (Jan. 15)-following the viral NEAR-related “Attention is All You Need” post from the official Solana account Coinspeaker covered on Dec. 18, 2025. The ledger nods and the network keeps moving. 🚀

There’s a 1st time for everything.

Starknet’s token STRK is now live on Solana, enabled by NEAR Intents.

This integration uses NEAR’s cross-chain infrastructure to power a first-of-its kind connection between @Starknet ↔ @solana, unlocking unified liquidity and 1-click swaps.

– NEAR Protocol (@NEARProtocol) January 15, 2026

Notably, many key opinion leaders in Solana have shown public support for NEAR Intents. Mert, founder and CEO of Helius Labs, doubled down on his support, testifying to his positive experience implementing the protocol in a Solana app he is developing. Anmol, a Jupiter developer, vouched for that reply with a response: NEAR Intents is “underrated” and it “blew my mind” when he learned of it in March 2025.

Learnt about to near intents in march 2025 and it blew my mind

Underrated

– Anmol (@0xanmol) January 15, 2026

On other fronts, NEAR is gathering momentum. Brave is adopting the recently launched NEAR AI Cloud for verifiable privacy, and NEAR has joined NVIDIA’s Inception Program for startup acceleration, just as the snow begins to melt in the minds of executives who still believe in paperwork and promises. 🧭

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2026-01-16 22:51