NEAR Protocol · 2026-11-09 15:02 UTC

NEAR Intents Is Live in Talos OEMS: Cross-Chain DeFi Liquidity Inside the Institutional Workflow Most attempts to bring institutions onchain have asked the institution to change: new custody arrangements, new counterparty risk, and even new operational surfaces. The premise was that the liquidity was worth the disruption. The math mostly concluded it wasn't. With NEAR Intents now live inside @talostrading's Order and Execution Management System (OEMS), it makes sense. Talos's institutional clients can source cross-chain DeFi liquidity through the same order and execution workflow they already use for every other venue, with the custody integrations and controls already in place around it. What the trading desk actually touches Nothing new. That is the point of doing this inside an OMS/EMS rather than alongside one. An order staged in Talos routes to NEAR Intents the way it would route to any other venue. The trader expresses what they want done. Everything underneath that, which chains hold the liquidity, how the legs are sequenced, which counterparty ends up filling, is not a decision the trading desk makes or a set of accounts the desk has to fund. How the liquidity gets sourced NEAR Intents does not operate a pool. It takes a stated outcome and delegates it to a competing network of solvers. A solver is a professional counterparty that bids to fill the order. To win the flow it has to price better than the others bidding on it, and it can go anywhere to do that: liquidity across more than 30 chains, EVM and non-EVM, plus centralized venues including Binance and other international exchanges where the depth for a given pair often actually lives. The solver absorbs the routing, the inventory risk, and the cross-chain mechanics. The client sees a price and a fill. The structure matters more than the plumbing. In a single-venue relationship, execution quality is whatever that venue's book gives you on the day. Here, every order is a small auction. Pricing is set by competition for the flow rather than by the one place you happened to be connected to. NEAR Intents has done over $37 billion in total volume and more than $4 billion in the past 30 days, with swaps typically settling in under a second and network fees under a cent. Custody integrations and confidentiality Institutions no longer have to give up certain aspects of privacy and security with NEAR Intents. Talos clients can continue using their existing custody solutions. The custody integrations already wired into the Talos workflow continue to apply. Execution can be confidential through Intents. Orders are not broadcast to a public mempool where anyone watching can read intent and position ahead of the fill. For a desk moving size, the difference between confidential and public execution is not a preference. It's where additional margin lives. Assets, fees, and what comes next Fungible tokens are supported today across the full cross-chain set. Tokenized RWAs, yield-bearing assets, and prediction markets are next, which extends the same execution path to instruments that currently sit in entirely separate operational silos. Fees are volume-tiered and benchmarked against centralized exchange schedules, so accessing decentralized liquidity does not carry a cost penalty for doing so. Details are available for users during onboarding. "This is what institutional access to DeFi should look like: existing custody integrations, no new workflow, and competitive cross-chain pricing on every order. Talos connects some of the largest trading desks in digital assets. NEAR Intents is now the route that brings their flow onchain, into the markets and liquidity the rest of DeFi runs on." — Alex Shevchenko, CEO of Defuse Labs, developer of NEAR Intents "Talos clients asked for access to solver-sourced liquidity without standing up a second operating model to reach it. Competitive quoting is becoming a real source of institutional liquidity, and it now reaches clients through the same Talos request-for-quote workflow they use for spot blocks, options and ETF creations/redemptions." — Daniel Packham, VP and Head of Provider Network, Talos Get access NEAR Intents is available now to Talos clients. Request API access at partners.near-intents.org. For fee schedules and onboarding, contact [email protected].

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