Everclear Secures Strategic Investment From NEAR Foundation to Scale Cross-Chain Clearing
San Francisco, California, July 23rd, 2025, Chainwire
Today, Everclear, the cross-chain clearing and settlement protocol for digital assets, announced a strategic investment and partnership with the NEAR Foundation. This partnership entails a long-term commitment by both teams to advance cross-chain clearance and settlement with NEAR’s tech.
NEAR Foundation’s capital deployment includes provision of solver capital aimed at unlocking liquidity to meet the growing demand for Everclear’s offerings and a multi-faceted strategic investment, signaling support for the CLEAR community.
Powering Intents-Based Interoperability
The cross-chain intents market is seeing significant momentum with new chains coming in and a stablecoin explosion–transaction fees are already often as low as 0.01% and settlement times are often seconds, which creates a perfect set-up for further growth.
Everclear, which recently surpassed $1B in total transaction volume, introduces a DeFi primitive that enables clear and net-off bi-directional cross-chain liquidity flows at zero cost. To further strengthen its robust clearing and netting infrastructure, Everclear will integrate with the NEAR technology stack and scale the amount of available liquidity in the protocol with additional resources.
Illia Polosukhin, NEAR co-founder, stated: “Unifying liquidity for both human and AI users is a key mission for NEAR and the Intents ecosystem. We’re happy that Everclear will utilize NEAR Intents for cross-chain clearing and settlement amidst the proliferation of stablecoins, chains, and new asset types in the market today – we see a great opportunity in our work together.”
“Partnering with the NEAR Foundation enables Everclear to scale liquidity and target billions in monthly volume over the next 12 months,” said Dima Khanarin, Everclear Foundation CEO. “With hundreds of stablecoins and new appchains like Robinhood launching, the cross-chain clearing market for digital assets is poised to surpass $1Trillion.”
Everclear’s Accelerating Momentum
Since March 2025, Everclear has:
- Achieved 111% growth in Q2, >50x growth from January
- Surpassed $1B in total transaction volume
- Expanded to 23 supported chains, including Solana
- Onboarded top DeFi protocols such as Li.Fi and Across
About Everclear
Everclear is the first cross-chain clearing and settlement protocol, enabling efficient movement of liquidity across blockchain networks. Like Visa and SWIFT in traditional finance, Everclear coordinates liquidity flows across decentralized ecosystems—eliminating fragmentation and unlocking a more connected digital asset economy.
Everclear is backed by NEAR Foundation, Pantera Capital, Polychain, 1kx, Hashed, ConsenSys, and the Ethereum Foundation.
Website: https://www.everclear.org/
About NEAR Protocol
NEAR Foundation is the blockchain for AI. A high-performance, AI-native platform built to power the next generation of decentralized applications and intelligent agents. It provides the infrastructure AI needs to transact, operate, and interact across Web2 and Web3. NEAR combines three core elements: User-Owned AI, which ensures agents act in users’ best interests; Intents and Chain Abstraction, which eliminate blockchain complexity for seamless, goal-driven transactions across chains; and a sharded blockchain architecture that delivers the scalability, speed, and low-cost execution needed for real-world AI and Web3 use. This integrated stack makes NEAR the foundation for building secure, user-owned, AI-native applications at internet scale.