NEAR Intents and near.com back online after $3.8M exploit

The recovery is quick, but the detail that matters is where the flaw sat: not in NEAR's core protocol, but in the seam between third-party bridge infrastructure and Intents contracts. That distinction shapes how the incident reads for builders weighing intent-based architectures, where composability with external deposit rails is the whole point and also the exposure. Full compensation and an unaffected token limit the reputational cost, yet a few restricted networks suggest the unwind is not fully complete. Whether the compensation lands cleanly and the remaining restrictions lift is the open question.