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What is the best DEX on NEAR?
There is no single best DEX on NEAR; it depends on the token. Rhea Finance holds the deepest pools for NEAR, stablecoins and most established tokens. Intear DEX is where TEAR and Intear launchpad tokens trade. nearswaps is not a DEX: it routes each swap through Rhea and Intear DEX pools and shows the route before you sign.
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The venues, side by side
| Venue | What it is | Used by nearswaps? |
|---|---|---|
| Rhea Finance | The exchange most NEAR tokens trade on: classic, stable and DCL (concentrated) pools. Contracts v2.ref-finance.near and dclv2.ref-labs.near. | Yes: classic, stable and DCL pools, through its own router. |
| Intear DEX | Intear's exchange (dex.intear.near) with its own launch pools; Intear's router quotes it. | Yes: TEAR and Intear launchpad tokens, quoted by Intear's router. |
| Launchpad pools | Nearly and JustHoot launches trade on their own Rhea DCL pools; Shards launches on their own bonding curve, then their own pool. | Yes: through those pools. |
| Jump DeFi | A NEAR DeFi app; its site (jumpdefi.xyz, read 20 October 2026) lists a swap, pools, farms, NFT staking, the Jump Pad launchpad and a token kit. | No. |
| Aggregators | Services that route one swap over other exchanges' pools, for example Intear's DEX Aggregator over Rhea, Rhea DCL, Aidols and Intear DEX pools (source). | Partly: nearswaps runs its own routing for Rhea and asks Intear's router for Intear DEX. |
| NEAR Intents | A solver network that fills swaps across chains through deposit addresses. | Yes: for paying in from, or selling to, another chain. |
Where the liquidity is
Intear's public token index (prices.intear.tech, read on 20 October 2026) lists the main pool of each token. For wNEAR it is Rhea pool 6063 with about $4.26M of liquidity, for native USDC Rhea pool 4512 with about $5.90M, for stNEAR and LiNEAR Rhea pools 3514 and 3515. TEAR's main pool is Intear DEX pool 274. Figures move every minute; each token page shows the main pool.
How to pick for one trade
- Look at the price impact for your size in the quote: the deepest pool for that token gives the lowest.
- Compare pool fees: a Rhea classic pool picks 0.2%, 0.3% or 0.6%, or a custom fee from 0.01% to 19.99%, when it is created, and DCL pools can have several fee tiers (Rhea guide); Intear launch pools often charge 5%, and brand-new launches can start far higher and fall over hours.
- Check the token, not the venue: the token check shows every pool holding it, who holds the liquidity, and what a 10 and 100 NEAR sell would cost.
What nearswaps adds on top of the pools
Split routing across up to 3 routes, stop-loss and limit orders, 1-click trading, a token check, cross-chain pay-in and pay-out, and charts. It charges a 0.5% site fee on top of the pool fee. Head-to-head pages: vs Rhea, vs Intear and vs NEAR Intents.