Cross-border payments and yield products for emerging markets share a specific problem: the people who need dollar savings most are the least equipped to navigate decentralized finance. They aren't going to learn how to bridge assets or manage gas tokens just to access a savings product. The friction wins, and they walk away.
That's why Movement is integrating NEAR Intents, developed by Defuse Labs, to remove that friction entirely.
What NEAR Intents Does
NEAR Intents abstracts the entire cross-chain routing process. Users state what they want. An open network of automated solvers scans 20+ chains, finds the fastest and cheapest route, and executes. The heavy lifting happens in the background.
For builders, connecting to other chains traditionally means deploying and maintaining complex smart contract bridges for every single network they want to reach. NEAR Intents replaces that overhead with a universal adaptor via one integration to allow instant connectivity across every connected chain.
Why Movement Is Integrating It
Partners offering yield products on Movement will be able to accept eligible deposits from any connected chain, with no change to how users transact. A user on Tron, Ethereum, or Polygon will then be able to deposit their preferred asset, the intent engine will route it, and it will deliver assets to arrive on Movement. On Movement, that balance can earn frictionless stablecoin yield, no matter which chain it started on.
Why It Matters for the People Movement Is Building For
Movement's partners are building for users in the Global South (Nigeria, Pakistan, Ethiopia, the Philippines, Indonesia, and more) who aren't crypto-native. They no longer need to learn how to bridge assets, but they will be able to open a neobank app that earns yield on their dollar balance without ever asking them to understand how. NEAR Intents routes assets and settles the transfer in the background, the asset arrives on Movement and the user earns yield.
741 million people now hold crypto globally, up 12.4% in the last year. Most are passive holders sitting on assets that aren't working. An intent-based system changes that without changing their behavior: they state a goal, and the solver network handles the rest.
What Comes Next
Partners connect once through a single API and their users get access to yield and payment infrastructure across every connected chain, without touching a bridge, managing gas, or switching networks. The financial engine runs underneath - that’s where Movement lives.
Move is for Money.
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