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NEAR Protocol (NEAR) price
Data as of November 11, 2026, 02:11 UTC+3, the price refreshes on the page
NEAR Protocol (NEAR) is a sharded proof-of-stake blockchain for smart contracts and apps.
- Market cap
- $4.64B
- 24h volume
- $532.5M
- Volume / market cap
- 11.48%
- Fully diluted value
- $4.64B
- Circulating supply
- 1.31 B NEAR
- Total supply
- 1.31 B NEAR
- Max supply
- no cap
- 24h range
- $3.47 … $3.75
- All-time high
- $20.44January 16, 2022
Analytics
What the numbers say about how the coin behaves. Based on hourly prices over 7 days and data as of November 11, 2026, 02:11 UTC+3.
Volatility
104%high2.3× higher than Bitcoin over the same week.
Link to Bitcoin
0.76clearMostly moves with Bitcoin. When Bitcoin moves 1%, NEAR moves 1.7% on average.
From the all-time high
−82.70%far belowThe high of $20.44 was set on January 16, 2022.
Liquidity
11.5%highA day’s trading equals 11.5% of market cap. Actively traded, easy to buy or sell.
Supply issued
∞no cap listedNo maximum supply is listed in the data: issuance depends on the project's rules.
Place in the week’s range
9%near the bottomThe week ranged from $3.48 to $4.15, with a max drawdown of −16.20%.
Market share
0.19%smallShare of the top-100 market cap.
What is NEAR Protocol
NEAR Protocol is a public layer-1 blockchain for smart contracts and decentralized apps. It was founded by Illia Polosukhin and Alexander Skidanov, who started out in 2017 with an AI startup called NEAR.ai and turned to blockchain in 2018. Polosukhin previously worked at Google Research and co-authored “Attention Is All You Need,” the paper that introduced the transformer architecture. The Swiss non-profit NEAR Foundation supports the network’s development.
Mainnet went live in April 2020 in a restricted mode, and in October 2020 validators voted to enable token transfers. NEAR runs on proof of stake: validators lock up NEAR as collateral, and holders can delegate their coins to them for a share of the rewards. The network is split into shards that process transactions in parallel, a design called Nightshade. Nightshade 2.0, released in 2024, added stateless validation, so some validators check blocks without storing a shard’s state, which lowered hardware requirements. New coins are issued as validator rewards, and in 2025 that issuance was cut in half.
NEAR pays for transactions, secures the network through staking and covers on-chain storage: the more data an account or contract keeps, the more NEAR it has to hold. Unlike on Ethereum, an address can be a readable name such as alice.near. Chain Signatures let a single NEAR account sign transactions on other networks, including Bitcoin and Ethereum, while NEAR Intents let users state the outcome they want from a swap and leave the routing to third-party solvers. The project now markets itself as a blockchain for AI agents.
What it’s used for
- paying fees for transactions and smart contracts
- staking and delegating to validators
- reserving on-chain storage for accounts and contracts
- cross-chain swaps through NEAR Intents
Risks
- tough competition from other smart contract platforms for developers and users
- ongoing issuance dilutes holders who do not stake
- questions about governance: the 2025 inflation cut went live through a validator upgrade even though an earlier community vote fell short of its threshold
Questions
How much is NEAR Protocol worth today?
As of November 11, 2026, NEAR Protocol trades at $3.54. Over 24 hours the price moved −2.22%, over 7 days −8.47%. The price on this page refreshes automatically.
How many NEAR are in circulation?
1.31 B NEAR are in circulation. There is no maximum supply. The fully diluted value of all coins is $4.64B.
What is the NEAR Protocol all-time high?
The all-time high of $20.44 was set on January 16, 2022. The price is now 82.70% below it. The all-time low was $0.5268 (November 4, 2020).
How is NEAR different from Ethereum?
NEAR was designed with sharding from the start, so the network is split into parts that process transactions in parallel. Accounts can use readable names like alice.near, and storage is paid for by keeping NEAR locked in the account.
Can you stake NEAR?
Yes. Holders can delegate NEAR to a validator and receive a share of its rewards minus the validator’s fee. Unstaked coins are not available right away: they unlock after several network epochs.
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Prices and analytics are for information only and are not investment advice. Market data source: CoinGecko.