NEAR
How Hermit uses NEAR
Three parts of Hermit run on NEAR: swaps through NEAR Intents, a NEAR account in every wallet, and Private Cloud on NEAR AI Cloud.
Hermit leans on NEAR in three places. NEAR Intents moves money between chains, every wallet has a NEAR account, and Private Cloud runs on NEAR AI Cloud. Each one has its own page below. This page is the short version.
Swaps through NEAR Intents
Section titled “Swaps through NEAR Intents”When you swap or bridge, Hermit asks NEAR Intents (through its 1Click API) for a quote. You send your coins to a one-time deposit address, solvers fill the swap, and 1Click pays out on the other chain. It covers the EVM chains, Solana and NEAR, and it can also pay out to a Bitcoin address or to your Hyperliquid account. Add funds uses it too, so you can top up from BTC, USDT on Tron and plenty more.
Your device checks 1Click’s signature on every quote before it shows you the review.
How much USDC on Solana would 0.5 ETH on Arbitrum get me?
- Getting a NEAR Intents quote for 0.5 ETH to USDC
A live quote: what you’d get, the cost and the time. Nothing gets prepared.
A NEAR account in every wallet
Section titled “A NEAR account in every wallet”Your 12 or 24 words also make a NEAR account, worked out on your device. It’s an implicit account, so its name is 64 hex characters rather than something like alice.near. You can hold NEAR, USDC and USDT there, send to any NEAR account and swap from it.
Private Cloud on NEAR AI
Section titled “Private Cloud on NEAR AI”By default the Hermit model answers on your device. When you pick Private Cloud, your question goes to a bigger model that NEAR runs inside a hardware enclave. Before each message leaves, your device checks the enclave’s proof. After the reply comes back, it checks the enclave’s signature on it. The tools still run on your device, under the same spending policy.
How the pieces fit
Section titled “How the pieces fit”
Green is NEAR. NEAR Intents and NEAR AI Cloud never hold your keys. NEAR Intents only sees the coins you send to a deposit address, and NEAR AI Cloud only sees the chats you have in Private Cloud mode.