You will need ETH to pay for ETH gas fees, ETH to pay for AURORA gas fees, and NEAR to pay for NEAR gas fees

Be aware of the amount you wanna bridge, for different amounts there is a different best pick.

The more you bridge, the more it makes sense to bridge from SOL to ETH to NEAR

Bridging native currencies

• SOL ⇒ ETH approx 100$
• ETH ⇒ NEAR approx 30$
• stablecoins SOL ⇒ AURORA ⇒ NEAR approx 10-15$ but involves a few more gas fee transactions / deposits
• rocketx cross chain swap is about 0.8% fee + tx fee

Guides

Cross chain swap rocketx - ~0.8% fee

Bridging SOL ⇒ ETH ⇒ NEAR

Bridging Stables SOL ⇒ AURORA ⇒ NEAR (max 5k per tx, ~15$)