Ethereum Foundation on Interop, Cardano x NEAR Intents, Bitget Wallet’s Gassless UX, SWIFT Confirms Linea for On-chain Payments

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The latest news we’ll cover:

The Ethereum Foundation on Its Mission to Solve Interop
Bitget Wallet Adds Polygon to Its Gas-Abstraction Stack
Cardano Integrates with NEAR Intents for Cross-Chain Swaps
SWIFT Confirms Linea for Blockchain Payments Pilot

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The Ethereum Foundation on Its Mission to Solve Interop

In a new interview by LI.FI, the Ethereum Foundation’s Josh Rudolph and Barnabé Monnot frame interop as the highest-leverage path to better UX, aligning EF work around three focus areas: scale L1, scale blobs, and improve UX. Their near-term mandate is to make cross-L2 actions feel like single-chain transactions while preserving permissionless and censorship-resistant properties.

They describe the Open Intents Framework as a modular, ecosystem effort to standardize how intents flow from origination to fulfillment, settlement, and rebalancing — so teams can mix components and swap trust assumptions as needed. Wallets are the primary delivery point; an SDK strategy is being explored to help wallets bring intent UX to users without vendor lock-in.

On protocol pacing, they emphasize incremental, user-visible gains ahead of deep changes: shorten slot time to cut today’s finality in half and expose a “synchronous finality” or fast-confirmation rule directly in clients, giving safer, lower-latency confirmations that many exchanges already approximate with ad-hoc heuristics. The goal is practical improvements in tens of seconds rather than waiting years for full single-slot finality.

They also point to reducing optimistic rollup withdrawal delays via “two-out-of-three” proof strategies and emerging collaborations among rollup teams and ZK projects, with EF acting as a convener rather than picking winners.

The throughline for account and chain abstraction builders: wallet-delivered intents on top of steadily faster, safer settlement rails, letting apps present one-click, chain-agnostic flows without sacrificing neutrality.

Bitget Wallet Adds Polygon to Its Gas-Abstraction Stack

Bitget Wallet now supports gas-free transfers and swaps on Polygon, extending its on-chain gas-abstraction infrastructure already live on Solana, Base, Tron, and Arbitrum. The rollout uses a paymaster architecture so users don’t need native POL to transact, with daily gas-free quotas for transfers and swaps on Polygon.

The company reports more than 320,000 gas-free transactions to date on supported networks, estimating about 350,000 USDT saved in fees, and pairs the feature with GetGas, a pre-funded balance that covers fees across multiple chains. Polygon’s official account amplified the launch, noting daily gas-free allowances on the network.

For account & chain abstraction builders, this is another data point that sponsored-gas UX and paymaster patterns are becoming table stakes across major ecosystems. Removing native-gas friction reduces failed first-runs, supports intent-style flows, and helps wallets present chain-agnostic actions without exposing token juggling.

Cardano Integrates with NEAR Intents for Cross-Chain Swaps

NEAR Protocol announced that Cardano is now supported by NEAR Intents, enabling ADA swaps across more than 20 chains and over 100 assets in a bridgeless, solver-based flow. The rollout was posted on X by NEAR, signaling cross-ecosystem buy-in around an intent-driven UX that hides chain selection and gas sourcing for end users.

Functionally, users specify an outcome, receive a target asset on a chosen chain, while competing solvers handle routing and settlement under verifiable constraints. That pattern maps directly to account and chain abstraction goals: fewer prompts, fewer failed transactions, and chain-agnostic balances that wallets can present as a single step. It’s also a live example of intents spanning non-EVM and EVM ecosystems without exposing manual bridging.

Cardano founder Charles Hoskinson publicly welcomed the collaboration, and secondary coverage reiterates the 20-chain, 100-asset scope. For builders, diligence still applies: validate per-route liquidity, solver behavior under volatility, and any settlement caveats across chains before wiring flows into production.

If reliability holds at scale, ADA’s inclusion broadens the surface area for intent-driven swaps and strengthens the case for presenting cross-chain actions as a single, human-readable step inside smart-account wallets.

SWIFT Confirms Linea for Blockchain Payments Pilot

We covered this news last week when SWIFT announced a shared-ledger payments initiative with Consensys, but did not name a chain; now Consensys CEO Joe Lubin has confirmed that the pilot will run on Linea during a fireside chat at Token2049. The confirmation upgrades a credible report into an on-record statement about the chosen Ethereum L2.

This matters because it aligns a tier-one financial network with Ethereum-compatible infrastructure, strengthening the case for account- and chain-abstraction wallets to route real-world payments over Ethereum tooling while preserving bank-grade compliance paths. It also increases the likelihood that stablecoin and intent-based payment flows will target EVM rails that can interoperate with enterprise systems.

For context, SWIFT’s earlier release described the shared-ledger initiative and a consortium of banks, but withheld the specific chain; Lubin’s confirmation closes that gap. Trials involve major institutions and aim for always-on, real-time settlement, a design that could compress settlement times and improve liquidity management for cross-border payments.

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