NEAR Just Bridged Solana, Aptos, and TON — Without Bridges

🌐 NEAR Just Made Cross-Chain Crypto Actually Work

Wallet fatigue? Over.
Custodial bridges? Obsolete.

NEAR Protocol just flipped the switch on a major upgrade: EdDSA support — the cryptographic signature system used by Solana, Aptos, Sui, Stellar, TON, and more.

That means your NEAR wallet can now sign transactions across chains, natively. No key juggling. No extensions. No nonsense.

🔐 What’s EdDSA — And Why Does It Matter?

EdDSA (based on Ed25519) is:

• 🧠 Fast
• 🔒 Secure
• 🚀 Already used by major non-EVM chains

NEAR’s upgrade means:

• 🧾 One wallet = access to multiple blockchains
• 🛠 Smart contracts can sign for other chains — trustlessly
• 🧱 Bridges are optional, not required

TL;DR: NEAR just became a universal remote for Web3.

💻 What This Unlocks for Developers

Chain Signatures (launched August 2024) already supported ECDSA chains like Ethereum and Bitcoin. Now with EdDSA, NEAR’s interoperability reach just exploded.

Real use cases:

• 🌊 Unified liquidity across Solana, Aptos, and SUI
• 🧑‍⚖️ Cross-chain DAO governance from a single NEAR dApp
• 🎮 Web3 games and NFTs with assets from multiple blockchains
• 💸 One-click swaps and DeFi moves — no bridge UIs

All with one signing interface. That’s actual chain abstraction.

🔐 Security-First — No Custodians, No Hacks

Unlike traditional bridges:

• 🔑 Private keys stay inside NEAR
• 🤖 Signing happens in NEAR’s runtime — not off-chain
• 🧱 Reduces attack vectors from third-party middleware

You’re not trusting anyone to move your tokens. You’re signing transactions directly from NEAR, like a command center for the multichain world.

🧱 Chain Abstraction Isn’t the Future — It’s Live Now

This is part of NEAR’s bigger vision:

Blockchains shouldn’t feel like separate apps.
They should feel like different tabs in the same browser.

Chain Signatures turns “multi-chain” into one chain with many functions.

With EdDSA live, NEAR is now cross-compatible with the fastest ecosystems in Web3 — from Solana’s speed to TON’s reach to Aptos’ parallelism.

🧠 TL;DR: NEAR Just Made Multichain Feel Single-Chain

• 🔗 One wallet. Many chains. No bridges.
• 🔐 EdDSA support = Solana, Aptos, TON, Sui, Stellar — unlocked
• 🛠 Devs build once, deploy everywhere
• 🚀 Web3 infrastructure just got smarter, leaner, and finally usable

NEAR isn’t trying to be the one chain to rule them all.
It’s becoming the chain that talks to them all.