NEAR Protocol NEAR
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CM Profile: NEAR Protocol
Cryptominium Profile. What we have established, measured and written about NEAR, and what we have not.
- Measured
- Selling $100,000 on 2 exchange order books lost between 0.08% and 0.12%, on 9 October 2026.
- Its price, recorded by us every day since 9 August 2026.
- Written, with sources
Read from our own records when this page was made. It describes what we know, and is not a view on whether to hold NEAR. How each part is worked out
What changed
Week to 9 OctoberNothing we measure moved much this week: exchange depth on Kraken, trading volume, reported supply and price are all within their usual range.
From our own measurements only, each against the month before. We do not say why a price moves. How this is worked out · Every coin this week
What it actually costs to sell NEAR
Selling $100,000 of NEAR into each exchange’s resting bids, measured against the mid price:
| Exchange | Lost | Got back | Measured |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kraken NEAR/USD | 0.08% | $99,916 | 2026-10-09 median of 26 |
| Coinbase NEAR/USD | 0.12% | $99,883 | 2026-10-09 |
Exchange figures need an account there (and KYC, a permitted country, the tokens already deposited), are before trading fees, and are never averaged with the on-chain figure. Binance is not included: it refuses requests from the region our servers are in. How this is measured →
Watch this number instead of remembering it. A free account keeps NEAR on a list, records where it stood the day you added it, and emails you if selling it on these exchanges gets materially harder — one message, not a series. The measurement itself stays public; the account is for being told when it moves without you looking.
What NEAR Protocol is
NEAR Protocol is a proof-of-stake blockchain launched in 2020, founded by Illia Polosukhin and Alexander Skidanov — the former a machine-learning researcher who worked on the paper that introduced the transformer architecture. It was built around a single goal: make blockchain applications feel like ordinary web applications.
Two design choices follow from that. Accounts use readable names rather than raw hexadecimal addresses, and applications can pay transaction fees on a user's behalf, so someone can use an app without first acquiring a token. Underneath, the chain splits work across shards so capacity grows with usage instead of competing for one shared queue.
What it is not is a solved usability problem. Readable account names make addresses easier to check; they do nothing about the fact that losing the keys still loses the funds. Sharding arrived in stages over several years rather than at launch, as it has everywhere it has been attempted. And the ecosystem, while active, is materially smaller than Ethereum's or Solana's — the project has repositioned its public messaging more than once, most recently around AI, which is a signal worth reading either as adaptability or as a search for a use case.
What NEAR Protocol can do
Selling $100,000 on Kraken lost 0.08% against the mid price, before trading fees. Check your own amount →
Our own measurement · measured 9 October 2026
NEAR can be staked by delegating it to a validator through that validator's staking pool. Rewards begin after about 12 hours, and taking the coins back out takes a day or two.
Source: NEAR docs: staking · checked 2 October 2026
What a coin can do is not a reason to buy it or to sell it. Each answer names its source and the day we read it; where we could not source one, the row is left out. How these are written · Every coin we have written up
About the asset
NEAR Protocol has no token contract — it is the native asset of its own chain, not a token issued on someone else's.
Price change
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NEAR Protocol data synced 5m ago from CoinGecko. Figures shown in USD. This page is market information, not financial advice — and nothing here is a recommendation to buy or sell NEAR.