tomorrow @near_intents and @auroraisnear are clearing an 8,000 piece NFT auction on Zcash. a chain with no smart contracts and no DEX. this is a big one for $NEAR. 48 hours of sealed bids, every one of them priced in $ZEC, with the money arriving from BTC, ETH, SOL, BNB and stables. Aurora Intents turns all of it into ZEC on the way in. Zcash could not build a checkout for this. it did not have to. it borrowed one, and most people bidding will never know they touched NEAR. Aurora spent february telling builders that Intents is a thing you embed in your own app. seven months later it is the payment rail for a launch on a chain that never had one. and refunds land in your Zcash wallet. bid in SOL, lose the auction, you are still long ZEC. the losing money does not leave.