How Mooring works

Mooring lets you buy any token on NEAR with native BTC, ETH, SOL and assets from 13 networks — and sell NEAR tokens back to them — without bridging anything yourself.

• Leg 1 — NEAR Intents. You send native coins to a one-time deposit address. NEAR Intents solvers deliver wNEAR, USDC or USDT (or the token itself, for “Direct” tokens) to your NEAR wallet.
• Leg 2 — Rhea. For long-tail tokens, you sign one swap on Rhea, NEAR's main DEX — directly or through one intermediate token (e.g. wNEAR → LINEAR → UMBRA).

Mooring never holds your funds. Deposits go to NEAR Intents, swaps run on Rhea's contracts, and every NEAR-side transaction is signed by your own wallet. The only wallet you connect is a NEAR wallet.

1. On Swap, pick what you pay with: choose the network first, then the asset.
2. Pick the NEAR token you want. Filter by origin network or paste its contract ID. Check the risk labels.
3. Enter the amount. Connect your NEAR wallet — that's where the tokens land.
4. Enter a refund address on the network you pay from. If anything fails, NEAR Intents refunds there.
5. Review, then Get deposit address. Send the exact amount, in one transaction, on that network only — from any wallet or exchange.
6. Track the order page. For “Via Mooring” tokens, once leg 1 lands you'll sign the leg-2 swap on the same page — re-quoted live, with your slippage limit.

Already hold NEAR, wNEAR, USDC or USDT on NEAR? Use Activity → Swap from your wallet — one signature, no deposit step.

1. On Sell, pick the token — including NEAR itself (native NEAR is wrapped inside the same transaction; 0.05 NEAR stays in your wallet for gas).
2. Pick what you receive (network, then asset) and the address to pay out to. Payouts to a wrong address can't be reversed.
3. Tokens NEAR Intents accepts directly sell in one step. Other tokens first swap to wNEAR on Rhea (step 1); step 2 then sells exactly the wNEAR that swap produced — never wNEAR you already held.
4. Get firm quote shows the minimum payout. Then sign one deposit to NEAR Intents from your NEAR wallet. It includes 0.00125 NEAR to register the deposit address and, the first time you sell native NEAR, another 0.00125 NEAR for your own wNEAR account (skipped and refunded when already registered).
5. Sign once. After your wallet confirms, the deposit button locks while NEAR Intents picks the deposit up. A second deposit to the same address isn't sold — it's refunded to your NEAR account.

Example: buying a long-tail token with $100 of BTC through a two-pool route costs $0.25 Mooring fee, $0.25 NEAR Intents fee, about $0.35 in Rhea pool fees, plus solver spread and price impact. Every quote shows these lines before you commit.

Typical leg-1 times after your deposit confirms: Bitcoin ~13 min · Ethereum ~1 min · Solana ~20 s · Base ~35 s · Arbitrum ~25 s · Optimism ~35 s · Avalanche ~40 s · Dogecoin ~2 min · Zcash ~8 min. Leg 2 is one signature and a few seconds.

Stuck? Paste your deposit transaction hash on the order page — it helps NEAR Intents pick it up faster. Bitcoin needs block confirmations, so ~10–20 minutes is normal.

• Deadline. Each deposit address has a deadline. Funds sent after it may be lost — the order page counts it down.
• Wrong amount. Less than quoted → incomplete deposit, refunded to your refund address. Exchanges that subtract a withdrawal fee can cause this — send the exact amount.
• Leg 1 fails. NEAR Intents refunds to your refund address (buys) or your NEAR account (sells).
• Deposited twice. Only the quoted amount is swapped; an extra deposit to the same address is refunded (usually within a minute on NEAR).
• Leg 2 slippage. If the price moves past your limit, the swap reverts and your wNEAR/USDC stays in your wallet. Try again, raise slippage, or keep the base token.
• Wrong network or wrong asset sent to a deposit address can't be recovered.

• Long-tail tokens are volatile and can go to zero. Mooring lists every token with a Rhea pool and does not vet them.
• Thin liquidity means high price impact — check the estimate on each token page and in your quote.
• Lookalike symbols. Anyone can name a token “SOL” or “NEAR”. Mooring flags these; always check the contract ID.
• Third parties. Orders rely on NEAR Intents, Rhea's contracts, the Intear routing API (routes are checked against Rhea's own on-chain pricing before you sign) and bridges behind bridged tokens. Any of them can fail or pause.
• Nothing here is financial advice.

Mooring's native token, $MOOR, is fair-launched: no VCs, no team allocation, no presale, a fixed supply of 1,000,000,000 and liquidity locked for good. The team bought 4% at the opening price and burned all of it: 40,000,000 MOOR. Protocol revenue buys $MOOR back and burns it every week.

Live — official contract moor.nearlytrade.near. Read the $MOOR docs → · Live burn tracker →

Using Mooring means accepting the Terms. What we store and why is in the Privacy notice.