Defuse Labs is a deep-tech company focused on building financial protocols for an increasingly autonomous, AI-enabled economy. Drawing on expertise in artificial intelligence, cryptography and decentralized finance, it develops NEAR Intents, a next-generation transaction framework for connecting AI agents, services, applications and users across blockchain networks. The platform is designed to address fragmented liquidity, slow execution and limited interoperability that can hinder cross-chain transactions.

Through intent-driven automation, NEAR Intents enables autonomous agents, smart contracts and decentralized services to coordinate and carry out financial interactions more efficiently and securely. Its capabilities include cross-chain liquidity and optimized asset movement between networks, AI-powered transactions that reduce friction, and infrastructure intended to support secure, scalable decentralized finance. Defuse Labs positions its work around enabling information, requests, assets and actions to be exchanged among agents, services and end users.

The company invites organizations to work with its team and recruits globally, with remote opportunities listed on its careers page