Bankless · Thursday, July 16, 2026
Near Intents generates revenue by taking a fee, typically between 10 to 20 basis points, from every swap facilitated through its protocol. This volume-based revenue contributes to a treasury, which has been used for buying back Near tokens, thereby benefiting Near token holders.
“So near Intense, the protocol, which is thus near, takes a cut from every single swap that goes through near Intense. And so that fee varies based on the partners that are integrating it. There's kind of like a whole you know, type of, you know, revenue agreement program that exists with these different partners. And then there's near.com, which takes, you know, takes its own fee, right? And then like just takes like the fee there. And so I think like the average is somewhere around like, uh, 10 to 20 basis points depending on where it's coming from.”
“So near Intense, the protocol, which is thus near, takes a cut from every single swap that goes through near Intense. And so that fee varies based on the partners that are integrating it. There's kind of like a whole you know, type of, you know, revenue agreement program that exists with these different partners. And then there's near.com, which takes, you know, takes its own fee, right? And then like just takes like the fee there. And so I think like the average is somewhere around like, uh, 10 to 20 basis points depending on where it's coming from.”
“And so like, yeah, that's, that is, I mean, that's exactly right. That's why I was like, started with like integrating more chains and that's still part of it. Uh, it continued into like, you know, integrating industry partners that like can, you know, create, like have that order flow. And that's still a big part of it. And then, yeah, we want, you know, we want every single asset in the world that people desire to be available on near.com. And I mean, I think that's, yeah, that's like, that is exploding, right? With like, AI is also like, you know, agents and the different products that are coming out there. I think that's going to unlock an entirely new set of, you know, assets that people and traders, right? Like agents will, you know, are and increasingly will be, you know, will be trading. And so like we want to make sure that Near Intense is just like providing enough value to all of those different parties that like we are the exchange in a lot, as many cases as possible. There'll be a volume, we'll take a cut of volume and then ultimately that'll, you know, that'll flow back to Near.”