$NEAR has rolled out Confidential Intents — a new privacy layer designed to let users execute cross-chain DeFi transactions without exposing strategy details publicly.

This is a big shift.

Today, most DeFi trades are transparent before execution:

• Wallet address
• Trade size
• Route
• Slippage
• Arbitrage logic

That visibility fuels:

⚠️ MEV extraction
⚠️ Front-running
⚠️ Sandwich attacks
⚠️ Copy trading by bots

Confidential Intents flips the model.

Instead of broadcasting every detail to the mempool, users submit an “intent” that gets privately matched and executed — reducing information leakage across chains.

Why this matters 👇

🔹 Better execution for whales
🔹 Safer cross-chain swaps
🔹 Lower MEV losses
🔹 More institution-ready infrastructure

Cross-chain liquidity is growing.
But privacy hasn’t kept up.

If #NEAR executes this properly, it positions itself not just as a fast chain — but as smart execution infrastructure for serious capital.

In DeFi, alpha isn’t just about speed anymore.

It’s about information control.