NEAR and Aptos Revolutionize Cross-Chain with Shelby’s One-Click Swap Breakthrough

Blockchain barriers crumble as NEAR and Aptos deploy Shelby's frictionless cross-chain protocol—cutting swap times from minutes to milliseconds.

The End of Bridge Anxiety

No more wrapping assets or trusting third-party bridges. Shelby's atomic swap mechanism bypasses traditional liquidity pools entirely—executing cross-chain transactions directly on-layer. NEAR's nightshade sharding handles the throughput while Aptos' parallel execution engine processes swaps at sub-second finality.

Institutional-Grade Without Institutional Fees

The system reportedly processes 10,000+ transactions per second across both chains—all while maintaining sub-dollar gas fees. Traders can now arbitrage between ecosystems without worrying about bridge exploits or multi-hour confirmation times. Because nothing says 'decentralized finance' like avoiding the very bridges that were supposed to enable it.

One click. Two chains. Zero intermediaries. The cross-chain war just got a new weapon—and the incumbents aren't ready.

Cross-chain liquidity and stablecoin transfers

The integration seeks to abstract away the blockchain complexities that hinder adoption, with developers able to tap into new possibilities. NEAR will integrate Shelby’s live agent memory with an artificial intelligence workflow that brings agentic AI capabilities to the NEAR ecosystem.

🚨 Partnership drop: @Aptos X @Shelbyserves X @NEARProtocol

Two major breakthroughs:
1️⃣ Cross-chain swaps via NEAR Intents — $BTC → $APT in one click, no bridges
2️⃣ Shelby hot storage joins NEAR AI stack — powering fast, decentralized data for agents

Welcome to the agentic… pic.twitter.com/Ttnfy8DlD4

Near’s integration with Aptos thus supports instant cross-chain transfers, while Shelby’s partnership enables a new decentralized hot storage network. 

“This integration marks a major milestone for NEAR’s Chain Abstraction stack. Aptos – one of the largest global stablecoin user bases – is now able to tap into NEAR Intents, bringing seamless cross-chain liquidity,” NEAR Protocol wrote in a blog post.

As such, the NEAR, Aptos, and Shelby partnership eyes one-click cross-chain swaps via NEAR Intents and fast, decentralized data for agents via Shelby’s hot storage solution.

On the former, what it means is that NEAR and Aptos are allowing users across the industry to swap assets such as Bitcoin (BTC), ethereum (ETH), XRP (XRP) and more than 20 other blockchains directly into APT and Tether (USDT) on Aptos. 

Aptos developers can tap into this new environment via the 1-Click Swap API that allows builders to directly integrate NEAR Intents into projects.

Notably, the integration means users do not have to understand wallets, use bridges, or worry about specific network details.