Aurora Intents umožňuje uživatelům Solany vkládat stablecoiny do platformy Elara jediným podpisem a následně stakovat elUSD do sELUSD druhým podpisem ze stejné peněženky, bez přemostění či druhé peněženky.
GIBRALTAR, Oct. 16, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Aurora Intents, the cross-chain execution solution built by Aurora Labs, now powers deposits intoElara Finance directly from Solana. Solana users can now deposit into Elara, a treasury product from the Brila ecosystem, with one signature from their Solana wallet. Staked as sELUSD, Elara's stablecoin elUSD earns yield from stablecoin market making, giving Solana users a way to put idle stablecoins to work without leaving their wallet.
Moving tokens across chains is only half the problem. The harder part is doing something with them once they arrive: minting, staking, depositing. Intents Connect handles that last step, so an app can let users act on another chain from the wallet they already use.
Funds move to Ethereum, where Elara mints elUSD. From there, the user stakes it into sELUSD with a second signature from the same Solana wallet. Both tokens stay on Ethereum in an account controlled by the user’s Solana wallet. Aurora Intents never holds the funds.
"Every extra step between a user and a product costs that product deposits," said Declan Hannon, CEO of Aurora Labs. "Bridging and buying gas are two steps most Solana users would rather skip. Elara can now accept those users as they are, and Aurora Intents handles everything in between."
The return trip works the same way. Users unstake sELUSD, redeem ELUSD for stablecoins, and Aurora Intents returns the funds to their Solana wallet.
“Our job is to make idle stablecoins productive, and a lot of that capital is held on Solana,” said Sebastien Davies, Head of Strategy, Elara. “Aurora Intents gives those holders a direct route into Elara without bridging or managing a second wallet. It brings our yield to them, wherever their funds are.”
Today’s launch connects Solana wallets to Elara, with deposits and withdrawals handled from the same wallet. The Solana route is live now at app.elara.fi.
Aurora Intents powers that connection through NEAR Intents, a solver network that has processed more than $34 billion in transactions.
About Aurora Intents
Aurora Intents is the cross-chain execution layer for on-chain applications. It enables users and systems to move assets, execute actions, and access liquidity across chains - without bridging screens, wallet switching, or per-chain gas management. Aurora Intents is built on top of NEAR Intents, the underlying solver network developed by NEAR Protocol.
About Elara Finance
Elara Finance is a treasury management product from the Brila ecosystem. Users deposit stablecoins to mint elUSD, a dollar-referenced treasury asset, and stake it as sELUSD to earn yield from stablecoin market making.
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heyAura integruje Aurora Intents, čímž rozšiřuje možnosti směrování cross-chain swapů a bridge transakcí a u podporovaných dávkových operací snižuje transakční poplatky.
heyAura is integrating Aurora Intents, a cross-chain execution layer powered by NEAR Intents. The result: more routing options for swaps and bridges, simpler cross-chain workflows, and lower gas fees on batched transactions.
heyAura integrates Aurora Intents for better cross-chain swaps and bridges and lower gas fees heyAura is integrating Aurora Intents, a cross-chain execution layer built by Aurora and powered by NEAR Intents.
The integration expands the infrastructure that heyAura uses for swaps and bridges, with three main benefits for users: more competitive quotes, simpler cross-chain workflows, and lower gas costs for compatible transactions.
Benefits of integrating Aurora Intents
More competitive quotesAurora Intents uses a solver network powered by NEAR Intents, in which independent solvers compete to fulfill transaction intents at competitive prices. Its cross-chain swap infrastructure also provides best-rate routing across its supported networks.
By adding Aurora Intents to heyAura's execution infrastructure, heyAura can access more available quotes and routing options when preparing eligible swaps and bridges.
This gives users a wider execution pool and can result in better quotes depending on the assets, networks, available liquidity, and current market conditions.
Simpler swaps and bridgesCross-chain transactions usually involve several infrastructure components, including liquidity sources, bridges, network-specific transactions, and settlement mechanisms
Aurora Intents combines these components into a single cross-chain execution layer. Its infrastructure handles routing and conversion across supported networks and supports multi-step, composable transaction flows.
heyAura interprets the requested action and prepares the transaction using the available execution infrastructure. The user retains control and provides final approval before execution.
Lower gas fees and faster executionAurora Intents combines multiple transactions and supports multi-step execution within a single coordinated flow. Gas still depends on the network, route, and conditions, but combining transactions lowers fees.
This is particularly relevant for heyAura, as the assistant can prepare batch transactions with a single prompt that would otherwise require several separate onchain operations. This workflow removes complexity, saves transaction time, and reduces gas fees.
One prompt. One approval. Cross-chain.
Here's Aurora Intents inside @heyAura:
→ "Bridge 1,000 USDC from Arbitrum to Base"
→ heyAura finds the route via Aurora Intents
→ Review, confirm, done
No bridge app. No chain switching. pic.twitter.com/TwO2VaShId
— Aurora (@auroraisnear) October 14, 2026 What is Aurora Intents?Aurora Intents provides infrastructure for executing transactions across different blockchain networks. It currently supports more than 30 chains and uses NEAR Intents together with Aurora's execution engine for cross-chain swaps and multi-step flows.
The system is based on intent-driven execution. An intent describes the outcome a user wants to achieve, while the underlying infrastructure handles routing, conversion, liquidity, and settlement.
Expanding heyAura's execution infrastructureAurora Intents joins the growing set of infrastructure providers behind heyAura's transaction capabilities.
The integration gives heyAura access to additional cross-chain liquidity and routing through the NEAR Intents solver network, while Aurora's execution engine adds support for composable multi-step flows.
For heyAura users, the result is straightforward: more routing options, simpler swap and bridge workflows, and more efficient transactions where batching is available.
This integration is another step towards our goal to provide better, more cost-effective, and time-saving services within heyAura.
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Spoluzakladatel Aurora Alex Shevchenko tvrdí, že identifikoval hackera NEAR Intents a dal mu 48 hodin na vrácení 3,8 milionu dolarů. Veřejně uvedl adresy pro Bitcoin, BNB Chain, Ethereum i Solanu.
Aurora co-founder Alex Shevchenko says his team has identified the NEAR Intents hacker. He gave the attacker 48 hours to return funds from the $3.8 million exploit.
The public ultimatum lists Bitcoin, BNB Chain, Ethereum, and Solana addresses for repayment. However, Shevchenko made a similar claim after another NEAR exploit earlier this year.
Will the NEAR Intents Hacker Take the Exit Offer?
We have identified you, sir.
Please return the funds to the following addresses:
— Alex Shevchenko 🇺🇦 (@AlexAuroraDev) October 2, 2026
Shevchenko posted the warning a day after the NEAR Intents hack, which hit the cross-chain swap service on October 1. Aurora runs an Ethereum-compatible network on top of NEAR Protocol.
NEAR Price Performance (1M). Source: BeInCryptoIn his post, Shevchenko addressed the attacker directly and listed three wallets. One of them covers both BNB Chain and Ethereum, since the two networks share the same address format.
Shevchenko’s post also points the attacker toward responsible disclosure. That practice lets hackers report flaws privately, often in exchange for a bounty.
He added that the attacker knows how that process works “better than most.” According to Shevchenko, the 48-hour deadline is the final chance to take that route.
Notably, Shevchenko did not name the NEAR Intents hacker or explain how his team traced them. He also did not say what happens once the deadline passes.
Why the Rhea Finance Case Matters HereIn April, Rhea Finance, a decentralized finance (DeFi) hub on NEAR, lost $18.4 million in an exploit, according to QuillAudits. Initial estimates of the Rhea Finance exploit put the damage at $7.6 million.
Shevchenko then publicly confirmed that the attacker had been identified, the security firm says.
Later, the attacker returned about 3.36 million USDC, 1.56 million NEAR, and roughly $4.4 million in Zcash (ZEC), among other assets. In addition, Tether froze about $3.29 million in USDT tied to the attack.
Those returns and freezes left a shortfall of about $400,000, which the Rhea team has committed to cover.
Two exploits on NEAR-linked services within six months raise questions about the ecosystem’s security. However, the Rhea case shows that a public warning can precede large returns. If the NEAR Intents hacker also returns the funds, public identification threats could become a standard recovery tool across DeFi.
LayerZero od 30. září ukončí off-chain podporu pro 13 sítí včetně Taiko a opBNB kvůli nízké aktivitě. Stargate Hydra tím přestane podporovat některé z nich.
PANews reported on September 26 that LayerZero has officially reminded users that, due to low activity on certain networks, it will continue to discontinue off-chain service support for the relevant chains in batches, and LayerZero DVN and Executor services will no longer cover these networks. The 13 chains affected starting September 30 are Aurora, Taiko, Japan Open Chain, LightLink, Viction, Anime, XPLA, Merlin, Gnosis, Zora, Otherworld Space, XAI, and opBNB.
As a result, Stargate Hydra will no longer support some of these networks. The official notice reminds affected users to redeem or bridge out assets such as USDC.e, WETH, and Hydra USDT from these chains as soon as possible; among them, Stargate's support for Aurora, Taiko, LightLink, and Gnosis already ended on September 23. According to a September 25 update, LayerZero's off-chain services for Gravity, Camp, Lisk, GOAT, and Metis will be discontinued on October 30, with the corresponding Stargate asset support ending on October 23. The official recommendation is to bridge assets to networks with deeper liquidity that remain supported, such as Ethereum, Arbitrum, Base, or BSC, to avoid losing access to funds.
Aurora Innovation uzavřela s McLane Company komerční dohodu na plně bez řidiče provozovanou nákladní přepravu na trase Dallas–Houston. Pilot zahrnoval přes 280 000 autonomních mil a 1 400 zásilek se 100% včasným doručením.
Aurora Innovation has signed a commercial agreement with McLane Company, a Berkshire Hathaway subsidiary, to launch fully driverless trucking operations on the Dallas-Houston corridor in Texas. The deal, announced on May 6, 2026, transitions what was previously a supervised pilot program into unsupervised commercial hauling, a distinction that matters enormously in the autonomous vehicle world.
The pilot phase wasn’t exactly a warm-up lap. Aurora logged over 280,000 autonomous miles and completed 1,400 loads for McLane, all with a 100% on-time delivery rate.
How the partnership actually works The operational model is a hybrid approach that splits the work between machine and human. Aurora’s self-driving technology handles the long-haul interstate segments between Dallas and Houston, roughly 240 miles of highway driving. McLane’s own drivers then take over for last-mile deliveries, navigating the trickier urban streets and loading docks that still challenge autonomous systems.
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McLane operates one of the largest distribution networks in the US, serving convenience stores, restaurants, and mass merchants.
Aurora’s growth targets and revenue outlook Aurora isn’t treating this as a one-route curiosity. The company has laid out aggressive expansion plans, targeting additional routes across US Sun Belt distribution-center corridors by the end of 2026.
On the fleet side, Aurora aims to have over 200 driverless trucks in operation by year-end 2026.
The financial projections reflect that ambition. Aurora has guided for $14 to $16 million in revenue for 2026, with an annual run-rate potential reaching $80 million once operations hit full scale.
Looking further out, Aurora is preparing to launch a Driver-as-a-Service model in 2027. Rather than selling trucks or software licenses outright, DaaS would essentially let logistics companies pay per mile or per load for autonomous capability.
What this means for the autonomous trucking race For investors in Aurora, which trades under the ticker AUR, the McLane deal offers commercial traction with a credible counterparty. The 100% on-time delivery rate across 1,400 loads is the kind of operational data that procurement teams at other major shippers will scrutinize when deciding whether to sign their own contracts.
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Aurora Labs spustila pro Solflare nativní cross-chain převody přes Aurora Intents, které umožňují posílat aktiva z Bitcoinu, Etherea a dalších sítí přímo do Solany bez klasických bridge rozhraní.
Aurora Labs has launched native cross-chain funding for Solflare wallets through Aurora Intents, allowing users to move assets from Bitcoin, Ethereum and other leading blockchains directly into Solana without interacting with traditional bridge interfaces.
Aurora Intents is powered by NEAR Intents, which settles more than $23 billion in total transaction volume and processes over $2.3 billion each month.
The integration introduces permanent deposit addresses for each supported blockchain and token. According to the projects, users simply transfer assets to the assigned address, while Aurora Intents automatically manages cross-chain routing, liquidity sourcing and token conversion using NEAR Intents infrastructure before delivering assets to Solflare.
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Aurora Labs says transfers from Ethereum-based networks generally complete in under one minute, while Bitcoin deposits take about 14 minutes.
The initial release supports Bitcoin, Ethereum, Arbitrum, Base, Polygon, BNB Chain, Tron and NEAR. SOL and stablecoins are the primary destination assets, with additional tokens supported depending on liquidity availability.
The platform charges a 0.1% fee for stablecoin transfers and 1% for other assets, although all deposits will be fee-free during the first month after launch, subject to a combined $125,000 fee waiver.
Aurora Labs said replacing bridge applications with reusable deposit addresses removes one of crypto’s biggest onboarding friction points.
“Bridging has always carried too much anxiety — too many steps, too much that can go wrong. We chose Aurora Intents because its intent-based model removes all of that: you state what you want on Solana, and you receive the real token, on one permanent address for each source-chain-and-token pair that you can reuse forever. No dApp to connect, no wrapped assets,” Vidor Gencel, co-founder and co-CEO of Solflare, stated.
“We think this turns the hardest part of getting onto Solana into something as simple and trusted as a send — and makes Solflare the natural gateway to Solana for funds flowing in from every major chain,” he added.
Solflare said the approach provides users with a simpler and more trusted way to bring assets into the Solana ecosystem.
“Exchanges trained users to copy a deposit address and send funds, and Aurora Intents now brings that same action to a self-custodial wallet,” Declan Hannon, CEO of Aurora Labs, noted. “Apps lose users at the funding step, and most of those users already hold assets somewhere else. Aurora Intents turns that into a deposit address, and both the funds and the users arrive on Solana.”
The rollout follows continued growth across the Solana ecosystem, where monthly active addresses rose approximately 50% during Q1 2026. Solflare currently has more than 4 million active users and over $15 billion in assets under self-custody.
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Aurora, the Ethereum-compatible blockchain layer built on NEAR Protocol, went dark at 02:16 UTC on July 20, 2026. Hours later, the network remains completely unavailable, with no official statement from Aurora Labs explaining what happened or when service might resume.
For a network that once locked up $2.5 billion in total value, this would have been a five-alarm fire. Today, with Aurora’s TVL sitting at roughly $4.65 million, the outage reads more like a quiet alarm going off in an increasingly empty building.
What we know so far On-chain monitoring flagged the outage shortly after it began in the early morning hours UTC. Aurora’s mainnet, which allows developers to deploy Ethereum-compatible smart contracts and decentralized applications at lower costs than Ethereum mainnet, has been completely inaccessible since.
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The @auroraisnear account has not issued any public explanation. No root cause has been identified publicly, and there’s no estimated timeline for restoration.
The long decline of Aurora’s TVL When Aurora launched in 2021, it had genuine momentum. The project raised $12 million from a roster of over 100 investors that included Pantera Capital and Electric Capital. It was positioned as the bridge between Ethereum’s massive developer ecosystem and NEAR Protocol’s scalable architecture.
By 2022, things were looking solid. Aurora’s TVL peaked at approximately $2.5 billion, and the broader NEAR ecosystem initiated a $90 million developer fund, allocating 25 million AURORA tokens to boost DeFi activity on the platform.
From $2.5 billion to roughly $4.65 million represents a drop of about 99%. The month preceding the outage was unremarkable. Aurora had been quietly pushing routine updates related to its Virtual Chains and Intents features, but nothing that suggested a major technical crisis was brewing.
What this means for investors and developers For anyone still holding positions on Aurora or building applications on the network, this outage demands a serious reassessment. Extended downtime without communication from the team is one of the clearest warning signals in crypto infrastructure.
A 99% decline in TVL tells you that capital has already voted with its feet. An unexplained, multi-hour mainnet outage tells you that operational resilience may also be deteriorating.
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Oklo dokončilo akvizici Creative Engineers, Inc. a posílilo vývoj reaktoru Aurora o zhruba 20 inženýrů, výrobců a svářečů se zkušenostmi se sodíkovými systémy.
Oklo just went shopping again. The nuclear energy company completed its acquisition of Creative Engineers, Inc. (CEI) on June 30, bringing aboard roughly 20 engineers, fabricators, and welders who specialize in exactly the kind of sodium and alkali-metal systems that Oklo’s Aurora reactor technology depends on.
This is Oklo’s second acquisition in a matter of weeks. Stock reaction was mixed, with some price slips observed around the announcement.
Why sodium experts matter for a nuclear startup Oklo’s Aurora reactor is a compact, modular design that uses liquid sodium as a coolant instead of water. CEI has been doing alkali-metal work for nuclear-related projects for years, and the acquisition brings liquid-metal handling, safety training, and reactor component development capabilities in-house rather than relying on external contractors.
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CEI has reportedly been generating positive free cash flow for over five years, which makes this more than a talent acquisition. It’s a profitable business being folded into Oklo’s operations, adding manufacturing capability and applied R&D capacity. The financial terms of the deal remain undisclosed.
The broader Aurora timeline is taking shape On June 18, Oklo announced a letter of intent with Centrus Energy to secure high-assay low-enriched uranium (HALEU) fuel supply for upcoming Aurora units. Initial fuel deliveries are projected for 2029, timed to support what Oklo has described as a 1.2 GW clean energy campus.
The company is targeting its first operational Aurora unit at Idaho National Laboratory by late 2027 or early 2028.
What this means for investors watching the nuclear-AI energy nexus Oklo’s chairman is Sam Altman, the CEO of OpenAI. The company has been positioned at the intersection of nuclear energy and AI infrastructure.
Oklo hasn’t generated meaningful revenue yet, and its first reactor is still at least 18 months from operation. Nuclear regulatory approval processes are famously unpredictable, and the HALEU fuel supply chain remains nascent. Investors should watch regulatory milestones over the next 12 months, the progression of the Centrus Energy fuel supply arrangement toward binding commitments, and whether Oklo announces additional acquisitions ahead of the 2027-2028 launch window.
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