Swaps are only the first intent.
Next on $NEAR Intents: yield, T-bills, a loan against your $BTC, AI agents choosing the route for you.
The lending side of that already runs on $RHEA.
swapping python-jose for PyJWT in CareCompanion cleared Trivy CVEs, but 30s leeway for future IAT silently stretched EXP.
at the auth boundary, global leeway lets logged-out tokens validate for an extra 30s.
dropping leeway and disabling verify_iat keeps strict EXP checks.
Swaps allow traders on Omni to execute $1M+ orders on traditional markets with under 1 bip in total execution cost.
Placing the same size order on even the most liquid comparable on-chain perp would cost more than 4 times as much.
Swaps tapping directly into TradFi liquidity means better execution costs for both large and small orders.
Top-of-book execution costs on some swaps are 100x+ cheaper than perps on the same market.