Near Brings More Privacy To Bitcoin Payments

Unstoppable Wallet has integrated NEAR Intents' Confidential Execution technology to introduce a new Private Send feature, offering users a more discreet way to move digital assets on-chain without revealing the full history of their wallet.

What Private Send Does

The feature allows users to send $BTC natively without exposing their originating wallet UTXOs to public view. Support for ethereum:native, USDT, USDC and other eligible assets is also planned. Unstoppable has been clear that the tool improves privacy without providing complete anonymity, drawing a line between practical confidentiality and full opacity. Private Send is expected to ship with version 0.51 by the end of this week.

The integration sits on top of NEAR Intents' Confidential Execution layer. Confidential Intents operates on a dedicated NEAR private shard, a separate execution environment maintained by a decentralized set of permissioned validators and connected to the NEAR mainnet via a Trusted Execution Environment (TEE)-based bridge. This design eliminates the need for complex, client-side Zero-Knowledge proof generation, which has historically hindered the user experience of privacy-focused chains.

During confidential execution, transaction details such as sender addresses, amounts, and routing paths stay hidden from public NEAR explorers, with the transfer appearing on the destination chain as a standard incoming payment from a bridge or solver contract.

Growing Momentum Behind NEAR's Privacy Stack

The Unstoppable Wallet integration is the latest sign that NEAR's confidentiality infrastructure is gaining real traction. NEAR Protocol announced the launch of Confidential Intents on February 25, 2026, making confidential cross-chain execution accessible to developers and protocols using the NEAR Intents API. Unlike fully opaque privacy protocols that have faced regulatory scrutiny, Confidential Intents supports selective disclosure, allowing enterprises to keep sensitive data confidential from the public while still providing auditable execution for regulators or internal compliance teams. That compliance-aware design is central to NEAR's pitch to both retail users and institutions.

Over 700,000 unique users have used NEAR Intents in the last 30 days, and in less than four months since its public launch, Confidential Intents expanded to support transactions across more than 35 different blockchains. The Unstoppable Wallet partnership extends that reach directly into the self-custody mobile wallet space, bringing privacy-enhanced Bitcoin payments to a broader base of everyday users.

Sources:
NEAR Unveils Confidential Intents for Private Cross-Chain Transactions (MEXC News)
NEAR's Confidential Intents TVL Surpasses $26M (Crypto Briefing)
NEAR Launches Confidential Payments via Intents Protocol (The Defiant)