NEAR Intents' SHIELD system has blocked more than $50 million in transfers linked to the recent Bitget hack. The protocol froze $503K in suspicious flows and permitted only about $166K to pass before full intervention kicked in. The action demonstrates real-time intent-based monitoring catching cross-chain laundering attempts shortly after the exchange incident.
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Bulls read the successful $50M+ block as proof that intent-layer security primitives can meaningfully protect on-chain liquidity and restore confidence in compromised funds recovery. Bears argue the fact that $166K still slipped through highlights persistent gaps in real-time detection across fragmented chains and questions whether intent protocols can scale to catch every sophisticated laundering path.