Talos’ NEAR Intents integration brings cross-chain liquidity to institutions
Daniel Packham, VP and Head of Supplier Community at Talos, mentioned shoppers had requested solver-sourced liquidity with out having to determine a second working mannequin.
The discharge describes that operational burden as a barrier to onchain buying and selling: desks have traditionally wanted separate custody preparations, counterparty publicity administration, wallets, fuel tokens and reconciliation processes. In the meantime, Talos information present that month-to-month spot quantity on Ethereum decentralized exchanges exceeded $26 billion in October 2026.
Solvers compete throughout blockchains and centralized venues
$NEAR Intents makes use of competing liquidity suppliers, often called solvers, relatively than a liquidity pool to cost swap requests. These solvers draw stock from greater than 30 blockchains and centralized venues worldwide, in line with the discharge.
Every solver competes to fill a request on the best worth and bears its personal stock threat. The protocol handles routing and cross-chain execution, giving the shopper a single quoted worth and fill.
The discharge places $NEAR Intents’ cumulative settled transaction quantity at roughly $37 billion, together with $4.8 billion over the previous month. It studies typical swap settlement in lower than one second, with charges under one cent.
Delegated signing connects swaps to current custody
Talos constructed a delegated signing service to assist the important thing construction required by $NEAR Intents. An intent is a signed message, relatively than an instruction despatched to a buying and selling venue.
After a shopper accepts a quote, Talos creates the intent and sends it to the shopper’s custodian for approval and signing. Talos then submits the signed intent to $NEAR, the place a solver executes it. The signing layer is designed to work throughout custodians.
Settlement makes use of a verifier contract designed so that each one components of a commerce full collectively or none completes. $NEAR Intents additionally handles bridging and fuel administration, eradicating the necessity for desks to function these capabilities individually.
Positions from these swaps sit inside the shopper’s current portfolio view and reconciliation course of. That view brings collectively onchain balances, staked and delegated positions, and property held with custodians and centralized venues.
Talos and $NEAR work towards one execution workflow
Talos and $NEAR are working to carry completely different digital-asset execution fashions right into a single workflow. Their collaboration addresses the distinct custody, signing and reconciliation necessities that accompany aggressive quoting networks, onchain perpetual futures venues and tokenized settlement rails.
Alex Shevchenko, CEO of Defuse Labs, which develops $NEAR Intents, described the mixing as institutional DeFi entry requiring neither a brand new custody setup nor a brand new workflow, whereas providing aggressive cross-chain pricing.
The Talos integration with $NEAR Intents is obtainable for shopper API entry requests. The discharge directs shoppers to Defuse Labs for payment schedules and onboarding.
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