On February 25, NEAR Protocol announced the launch of a new “Confidential Intent” framework, providing private execution and privacy protection for cross-chain DeFi transactions. This mechanism hides key parameters before transaction completion, effectively preventing front-running, sandwich attacks, and strategy leaks, while maintaining efficient transaction execution. This move strengthens NEAR’s leading position in privacy-driven DeFi innovation.
Traditional cross-chain DeFi systems expose transaction details in the mempool, making them vulnerable to bots or malicious actors, which can lead to user profit loss. NEAR’s “Confidential Intent” encrypts transaction instructions, ensuring sensitive information is not revealed during validator processing, reducing risks and enhancing fairness. Users can securely perform swaps, liquidity provision, and yield strategies across multiple chains without worrying about data leaks.
As cross-chain DeFi grows rapidly, asset transfers between chains are frequent, but most platforms still rely on transparent execution environments, which pose security vulnerabilities. NEAR’s privacy layer hides transaction size, routing, and timing details to meet institutional investors’ confidentiality needs and boost retail user confidence. The system employs advanced encryption technology and abstracted instruction execution methods, ensuring verifiability while protecting confidential information, providing developers with a flexible foundation to build private DeFi applications and automated strategies.
This release enables developers to integrate Confidential Intent into wallets, aggregators, and decentralized exchanges, enhancing market competitiveness. Institutional investors can execute large trades without revealing positions, reducing slippage and risk. NEAR’s innovation lays a safer, more private, and robust foundation for cross-chain DeFi, driving the industry toward a new era where decentralization balances transparency, protection, and efficiency.
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