$NEAR Protocol surged about 50% this week to roughly $2.34, outpacing most large cap tokens as traders rotated into Arthur Hayes’s “holy trinity” of $NEAR, $HYPE and $ZEC.
$NEAR Protocol has become one of the clearest large cap momentum trades after its price climbed roughly 50 percent in a week to hit a six month high around $2.34, even as the broader market barely moved.
near intents generated 33M+ in fees in less than a year
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— nairolf (@0xNairolf) May 25, 2026
CoinMarketCap lists the live $NEAR Protocol price at about $2.40, with 24 hour trading volume above $689 million and a market capitalization in the low single digit billions, placing it around the top 30 crypto assets by size.
