NEAR Intents alternatives for deposits. For deposits from any chain.
Checked October 27, 2026.
Why teams taking deposits look past NEAR Intents
Through its 1Click API, market makers compete to quote each swap, which settles atomically on NEAR's verifier contract. Assets from other chains are bridged into NEAR Intents and withdrawn to the destination chain.
Best for: Swaps across a very wide set of chains with competing market makers, where per-quote addresses are enough. What teams taking deposits run into:
- Deposit addresses belong to one quote and go inactive at its deadline, after which the API warns funds may be lost.
- Bitcoin waits to be mined, which the API puts at around an hour, and there's no Lightning.
- No webhooks: integrations poll for status.
The alternatives
1. Flashnet
Deposits, swaps and withdrawals API
Best for: Exchanges, prediction markets and wallets whose users fund from anywhere, Bitcoin and Lightning included, by sending to an address.
Choose Flashnet if users should keep one address for every deposit, you want Bitcoin deposits credited before confirmation, or you want Lightning, fiat in and out, and webhooks.
2. Relay
Intent-based cross-chain protocol
Best for: Apps whose users sign from connected wallets and want low published fees across a long list of chains.
3. deBridge
Intent-based cross-chain swap protocol
Best for: DeFi apps whose users already sign from an EVM or Solana wallet and want a guaranteed rate.
4. LI.FI
Cross-chain bridge and DEX aggregator
Best for: Wallets that want one SDK over many bridges and DEXs for swaps their users sign.
How they compare
On the points above, with each fact linked to its source. Every provider on every point is on the comparison page.
| Flashnet | NEAR Intents | Relay | deBridge | LI.FI | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Orders | |||||
| Permanent address per user | YesOne permanent address per user and source chain. Every eligible deposit converts to the destination you set.Source | PartlyAddresses belong to one quote and expire at its deadline. Reusable ANY_INPUT addresses are partner-only and funded inside NEAR Intents.Source | PartlyOpen addresses can be reused, but only for the same origin and destination token and chain.Source | NoNo reusable deposit addresses are documented.Source | NoEach address is single-use and valid for 24 hours.Source |
| Networks | |||||
| Lightning | YesIn and out over Lightning, including BOLT11 invoices and Lightning addresses.Source | NoNot among the supported chains.Source | NoNot among the chains in Relay's API.Source | NoNot among the supported chains.Source | NoNot among LI.FI's chains.Source |
| Bitcoin credited before confirmation | YesEligible deposits can be credited before the first confirmation, for a fee. Otherwise after 1 confirmation.Source | NoCredited once mined; the API notes Bitcoin may take around an hour.Source | NoProcessed after 1 confirmation, or 2 for high-value deposits.Source | NoNo Bitcoin support.Source | Not documentedIt depends on the bridge filling the route. |
| Operations | |||||
| Webhooks | YesWebhooks, plus a server-sent event stream of order status.Source | NoPoll the status endpoint by deposit address.Source | YesWebhooks and a websocket status stream.Source | NoPoll the order tracking API.Source | NoPoll the status endpoint every 10 to 30 seconds.Source |