RHEA Finance, a cross-chain decentralized exchange and lending protocol built on NEAR’s intent-based architecture, has officially integrated with the TRON network. The integration delivers chain-abstracted liquidity to one of the world’s most active blockchain ecosystems, allowing TRON users to trade, lend, and borrow across multiple chains without manually bridging assets, switching wallets, or understanding underlying chain mechanics.
How Chain Abstraction Works on TRON
Powered by NEAR Intents and NEAR Chain Signatures, the integration lets TRON users express financial intents — such as lending USDT or swapping TRX — while a decentralized solver network handles execution across supported blockchains. Users sign transactions solely with their TRON wallet via the RHEA PassKey experience, which provides secure validation and seamless signing. No NEAR, EVM, or additional wallets are required.
TRON’s Stablecoin Dominance
The TRON network has established itself as foundational infrastructure for global stablecoin payments, with a circulating supply of USDT exceeding $85 billion and over 370 million user accounts. As a high-throughput, low-cost financial rail, TRON processes over $20 billion in daily transfer volume, making it a natural environment for intent-driven DeFi applications designed to serve users at scale.
RHEA Finance’s Origin and Capabilities
RHEA Finance was formed through the strategic merger of Ref Finance (NEAR’s flagship DEX) and Burrow Finance (NEAR’s premier lending protocol), uniting two foundational NEAR DeFi projects into a single powerhouse. The protocol aggregates liquidity across multiple blockchains and now extends its infrastructure to TRON, enabling seamless asset trading, lending, and borrowing. Its architecture emphasizes chain abstraction and cross-chain interoperability, ensuring assets and liquidity flow between chains without fragmentation.
Industry Leaders Weigh In
“With RHEA’s TRON integration, the massive user base of TRON gains access to broad cross-chain liquidity through a single wallet,” said Illia Polosukhin, Co-Founder of NEAR Protocol and advisor to RHEA Finance. “This is the power of NEAR Intents and chain abstraction. The user states their intent and it just works — no need to think about infrastructure.” Sam Elfarra, Community Spokesperson of the TRON DAO, added: “This integration represents a meaningful step in driving cross-chain DeFi accessibility to TRON’s global user base. By leveraging NEAR’s intent-based architecture, users can transact across ecosystems without leaving TRON, enhancing interoperability and opening new possibilities for cross-chain liquidity.”
Solving Fragmentation in DeFi
The collaboration addresses persistent challenges in cross-chain DeFi: fragmented liquidity, complex bridging workflows, and the need for multiple wallets. By offering a unified experience where users specify outcomes and the infrastructure handles execution, intent-based systems like this demonstrate how blockchain interoperability can scale to meet the needs of a global user base. As the industry moves toward greater interoperability, the TRON-RHEA integration serves as a proof point for chain abstraction.
About RHEA Finance and TRON DAO
RHEA Finance is a next-generation, chain-abstracted DeFi protocol built on NEAR Chain Signatures and powered by NEAR Intents, formed from the merger of Ref Finance and Burrow Finance. TRON DAO, founded in September 2017 by H.E. Justin Sun, has grown to host over 370 million user accounts, more than 13 billion total transactions, and over $24 billion in total value locked (TVL) as of March 2026. It is recognized as the global settlement layer for stablecoin transactions and everyday purchases.