Near Protocol Price

Coin Prices

THBILL

$1.027

0.63%

Price data by

DecryptNear Protocol

Enter a coin name to search

NEAR Protocol

near

$2.08

-5.716%

Privacy Infrastructure

Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) Portfolio

Alleged SEC Securities

Pantera Capital Portfolio

24-Hour Range

$2.00

$2.31

Low

High

Market Cap (Mcap)

Rank

#37

Mcap

$2.70B

Fully Diluted Mcap

$2.70B

Supply

Circulating

1,296,244,744

Total

N/A

Created On

N/A

All Time High (ATH)

ATH

$20.44

ATH Change

-89.86%

ATH Date

Jan 16th, 2022

Total Value Locked (TVL)

TVL

N/A

MCap to TVL Ratio

N/A

FDV to TVL Ratio

N/A

Enter a coin name to search

NEAR Protocol Chart

Price

Volume

Market Cap

Other coins

BlackRock USD Institutional Digital Liquidity Fund

NEAR Protocol News

May 22, 2026

Markets

NEAR Protocol Jumps 28% on Privacy, AI, and Scaling Upgrades

NEAR Protocol’s token surged 28% to lead altcoin gains over the past 24 hours, extending its weekly rally to just under 45% as the team rolled out a cluster of privacy, AI, and scalability announcements between May 20 and May 22. The token's jump outpaces gains from Worldcoin's 12% and Venice Token's 8% over the same period, according to CoinGecko data. The moves come even as Bitcoin retraced from near $82,000 to $77,000 over the past week. The sharp price move is partly attributable to capital...

by Akash Girimath · 4 min read

Mar 2, 2026

Markets

Altcoins Outperform Bitcoin With Double-Digit Weekly Gains

Altcoins including Near Protocol, Polkadot and Jupiter have posted double-digit gains over the past week, far outpacing Bitcoin as traders rotated into higher-beta assets following the leading crypto's attempted recovery. Near Protocol jumped 19.4% over the past seven days, while Polkadot gained 16.5% and Jupiter climbed 15.8%, according to CoinGecko data. Bitcoin, by contrast, is roughly breakeven over the same period, hovering near $66,100 after recovering 4.7% from its February 28 low of $63,...

by Akash Girimath · 4 min read

May 8, 2025

Gaming

Move-to-Earn Game 'Sweat' Reveals AI Agent Amid Multi-Chain Expansion

Fitness app and move-to-earn platform Sweat, which rewards users with SWEAT tokens for walking, is joining the horde of companies leaning into artificial intelligence by revealing plans to launch Mia, a personalized AI agent. Mia, which stands for “Movement in Action,” is powered by Near Protocol’s Near AI infrastructure. Launching inside of the Sweat Wallet, it’s designed to provide users with an embedded assistant to simplify their Sweat experience, and help them manage their crypto rewards a...

by Logan Hitchcock · 3 min read

Apr 25, 2025

Markets

Near ETF Next? Bitwise Seeks Approval Alongside Solana, XRP and Dogecoin Filings

Another day, another crypto ETF filing. This time, a crypto asset manager is trying its luck with a fund that, if approved, would give investors exposure to Near Protocol. A Thursday filing in the State of Delaware shows that paperwork to launch a NEAR ETF has been filed by Bitwise. Filing with the State of Delaware is the first step in getting such a product approved. The asset manager still has to file with the Securities and Exchange Commission to get the process officially moving. Near Pr...

by Mat Di Salvo · 2 min read

May 23, 2024

Business

Grayscale Launches Trusts for Bitcoin Layer-2 Stacks, Near Protocol

Asset manager Grayscale unveiled two new investment trusts on Thursday, offering certain investors exposure to the Bitcoin layer-2 Stacks and Near Protocol, respectively. Limited to accredited investors, the trusts function much in the same as other private placements that Grayscale offers. Among a myriad of offerings, the new trusts join others dedicated to cryptocurrencies like Solana, Chainlink, and Decentraland. “With continued demand for diversified crypto asset exposure, Grayscale remains...

by André Beganski · 2 min read

May 22, 2024

Business

Near Protocol Launches User-Owned AI Research Lab and Incubator

NEAR Protocol, a leading consumer blockchain focused on decentralized cloud computing, announced today the launch of NEAR AI, a new research and development lab focused on decentralized artificial intelligence (AI). The lab will be led by Illia Polosukhin, a co-founder of NEAR Protocol and co-creator of the influential Transformers AI architecture. Additionally, the NEAR Foundation unveiled an AI-focused incubator and investment wing aimed at funding and supporting AI projects built on the NEAR...

by Jose Antonio Lanz · 4 min read

Sep 5, 2023

Gaming

MrBeast-Promoted 'Creator League' Postponed After Gamers Bail Amid NFT Backlash

Esports tech firm eFuse launched a “Creator League” with big influencers like Bella Poarch, iShowSpeed, and Clix last week, and used the massive reach of YouTube giant MrBeast to promote it. But now the company has put the project on hold following controversy surrounding the league’s use of blockchain tech. Esports Insider and Sports Business Journal reported Tuesday that eFuse has also laid off 30% of its staff, which is believed to have affected approximately 30 employees. While eFuse did not...

by Kate Irwin · 5 min read

Jul 30, 2023

Long Reads

Baron Davis Wants a Player-Owned NBA Team. Can This Pro-Sailing League Get Him There?

There exists a future, one not so far from now, in which NBA players will be able to join together and collectively own major basketball franchises like the Lakers, the Warriors, and the Miami Heat. And they'll use cryptocurrency-based tools to do it. At least that’s what two-time NBA All-Star and tech entrepreneur Baron Davis believes. And it all starts with professional sailing, he says. “If fans can participate in a team, make decisions, and get rewarded, that’s just a great way to organize,”...

by Sander Lutz · 5 min read

Jan 13, 2023

Business

First Fan-Owned SailGP Team DAO Opens to Investors

The first ever fan-owned SailGP racing team has opened its doors to investors. Founded by Bernoulli | Locke, the new SailGP team will be run as a decentralized autonomous organization (DAO) on the NEAR protocol in which token holders have the right to vote on key decisions around the team's operation. Those decisions include everything from the team name, flag and boat livery, to selecting sponsors and athletes—and many team business decisions. 🚨Major announcement 🚨 The First Fan-Owned Team l...

by Decrypt Staff · 3 min read

Oct 4, 2022

Coins

Near Protocol Founder: Ukraine Shows How Crypto 'Delivers Help Directly to People'

Since Russia invaded Ukraine in February, millions in cryptocurrency donations have found their way into the digital wallets of the Ukrainian government and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) operating in the region. Ukraine raised $63 million in crypto donations within two weeks of the invasion, according to Blockchain analytics firm, Elliptic. "At the beginning, [cryptocurrency] was a lifeline," Near Protocol co-founder Illia Polosukhin told Decrypt at Messari Mainnet in New York City. The...

by Jason Nelson · 3 min read

Aug 23, 2022

Business

Near’s Rainbow Bridge Blocks Another Attack, Costing Hackers 5 Ethereum

Near Protocol’s Rainbow Bridge experienced another hack attempt over the weekend. Like the first attempt back in May, the project successfully blocked this attack “automatically within 31 seconds,” the CEO of Aurora Labs Alex Shevchenko announced on Twitter yesterday. The Rainbow Bridge connects Near Protocol, Ethereum, and Aurora—an EVM-compatible scalability solution on Near—allowing users to move funds between the networks via smart contracts. 🧵 on the Rainbow Bridge attack during the week...

by Emily Tonelli · 3 min read

Aug 13, 2022

Coins

This Week in Coins: Ethereum and Avalanche Rally, Crypto Winter Still Not Over

This week in coins. Illustration by Mitchell Preffer for Decrypt. Despite the ongoing cypto bear market, many top cryptocurrencies posted double-digit percentage gains over the week. Bitcoin had no such luck. Bitcoin only rose 5.5% over the last seven days and currently trades for $24,460 according to CoinMarketCap. Ethereum rallied much harder. The No. 2 cryptocurrency and leading blockchain for high-functionality smart contracts is up 16% in the past week to $1,984 at the time of writing, a...

by Tim Hakki · 4 min read

Jul 28, 2022

Business

Step-Counter App Sweatcoin Raises $13M to Fund Leap Into Web3

Popular health and fitness app Sweatcoin is making a major transition from its Web2 surroundings into the world of Web3 by expanding its existing “Sweat Economy” ecosystem to offer crypto rewards for user engagement. The leap is also fueled by $13 million in funding backed by several prominent blockchain investors, including Electric Capital, Spartan Capital, Jump, GSR, and the NEAR Foundation. Other participants in the round include high-profile figures such as Polkadot co-founder Bjorn Wagn...

by Andrew Asmakov · 4 min read

Apr 25, 2022

Markets

Zilliqa, NEAR Protocol Suffer Double-Digit Losses as Crypto Market Dips

The price of Zilliqa (ZIL), the token underpinning the eponymous blockchain aiming to rival traditional centralized payment methods such as Visa and MasterCard, is down 14% on Monday, declining to its monthly low of $0.097 by press time, according to data from CoinMarketCap. ZIL was trading at as much as $0.22 at the beginning of April, with the token rallying on the back of the launch of Metapolis, a Zilliqa-powered metaverse project. This price now appears overbought and has effectively wiped...

by Andrew Asmakov · 2 min read

Apr 21, 2022

Business

NEAR Lending Project Bastion Raises $9M Series A Led By Three Arrows

NEAR lending and stablecoin swap protocol Bastion has closed a $9 million Series A round led by Three Arrows Capital. Jane Street, FTX Ventures, and Jump Crypto also participated in the round. Bastion’s founder, who goes by the pseudonym N^2, said the five-person team will use the funds to hire more developers and pay for marketing. “We’re definitely going to be expanding more into the retail consumer side,” he told Decrypt. “And we can actually serve institutions as well, by creating these so...

by Stacy Jones · 2 min read

Apr 8, 2022

Markets

Near Protocol Jumps 23% Amid Fresh $350M Funding

The NEAR token, which powers the eponymous blockchain network, has risen almost 23% over the past 24 hours. The bullish action now puts the 16th-largest cryptocurrency by market capitalization at just over $19, according to CoinMarketCap. This is just 6.5% from NEAR’s all-time high of $20.42 set in January. Launched in May 2020, Near Protocol emerged to solve many scalability bottlenecks that permeate the crypto space. It boasts high speeds and low costs through various features, including a...

by Liam J. Kelly · 2 min read

Apr 6, 2022

Business

Ethereum Rival NEAR Protocol Raises $350 Million in New Funding

As it seeks to compete with Ethereum as a go-to blockchain for decentralized applications, NEAR Protocol announced today it has raised $350 million in a new funding round led by Tiger Global. Republic Capital, FTX Ventures, Hashed, Dragonfly Capital, ParaFi Capital, Blockchange Ventures, and MetaWeb.vc also participated. NEAR says this latest funding round will accelerate the decentralization of the NEAR ecosystem. NEAR's previous raises included a $21.6 million round in May 2020 and another $15...

by Jason Nelson · 3 min read

Feb 18, 2022

DeFi

Ref Finance Raises $4.8M To Build Out DeFi On Near Protocol

Decentralized finance (DeFi) protocol Ref Finance has raised $4.8 million to build out its vision of a "one stop shop" for DeFi in the Near Protocol ecosystem. According to an announcement, the strategic OTC sale was led by Jump Crypto, with participating investors including Alameda Research, Dragonfly Capital and Kucoin Ventures. The funds raised will be used to expand the Ref Finance team and "build DeFi services that would better support the NEAR ecosystem." "We are excited to partner with Re...

by Decrypt Staff · 2 min read