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.