NEAR Intents at $169 Million: What to Check Before a Cross-Chain Swap

Anyone wanting to move a balance from one blockchain to another has until now mostly used a bridge, and has had to answer two questions themselves: which route the money takes, and who owns it along the way. NEAR takes a different path with its swap layer, NEAR Intents. You describe only the result you want to hold at the end, and several service providers bid against each other for the execution. Between $167.6 million and $169.1 million currently sits in that layer, and the NEAR price has risen by almost 18 percent within 24 hours. This piece separates the documented figures from the expectations and shows what to check before your first swap through this layer. NEAR price on September 20, 2026: these figures are documented Retrieved from CoinGecko on September 20, 2026 at 16:52 UTC: NEAR trades at $4.23. That is 17.76 percent more than the previous day, 67.5 percent more than the previous week and 103.5 percent more than 30 days ago. Market capitalization stands at $5.53 billion, and trading volume over the past 24 hours at $1.70 billion. That places NEAR 21st in the ranking by market capitalization. An important point for context: this is an ongoing move and not a finished one....