The NEAR protocol price has recently risen by 6.7%, reaching $2.66, with volume significantly increasing to 143,188 units. Technical Analysis indicates that it has broken through the support level and may be heading towards the target of $2.70-2.72. This rise is related to the expectations of "alts season" in the context of Bitcoin's new highs, but it is still below its historical high of $9 in 2024.

Odaily News GrayScale announced on the X platform that its GrayScale Decentralized AI Fund is now open to accredited investors, allowing for diversified investments in the cross-field of AI and encryption through fund holdings, including: NEAR, TAO, RENDER, FIL, GRT, LPT.

Edward Snowden, the whistleblower of the Prism program, talked about the importance of decentralization and blockchain technology at the Near Redacted conference. Taking Solana as an example, he pointed out that excessive VC funding may hinder its ability to operate independently, but also mentioned its potential for future achievements. Snowden emphasized the importance of decentralization, especially in combating the extensive surveillance capabilities brought by artificial intelligence.

Gate News Bot News, July 11, according to CoinMarketCap, as of the time of writing, NEAR (NEAR Protocol) is currently priced at $2.52, rising 7.94% in the last 24 hours, with a high of $2.53 and a low of $2.10, and a 24-hour volume of $202 million. The current market capitalization is approximately $3.107 billion, an increase of $229 million compared to yesterday. NEAR is a modular high-speed protocol designed for AI, enabling AI to act, trade, coordinate, and evolve on behalf of users. On NEAR, AI interacts with users as the front end and executes intentions, while the blockchain handles identity, trust, and data as the back end. NEAR simplifies the blockchain user experience, with agents defining outcomes, while NEAR manages cross-chain routing, signing, and execution in the background. NEAR's dynamics

Gate.io News bot, according to BWENEWS, OM CEO JP Mullin posted on social media that the details of OM's token burn plan have entered the final stage, and relevant information will be announced in the near future. At the same time, the token buyback program is also being actively promoted. JP Mullin said: "The burn program details are in the final stages, and will be shared in the near future. Buyback program also well underway. We are working around the clock for the Sherpas/OMies."

Templar Protocol completed a $4 million Pre-Seed funding round, aiming to develop an encryption lending platform that allows users to borrow assets such as Bitcoin without relying on centralized institutions. The team plans to launch the protocol in the second quarter of 2025 and will expand support to more assets in the future, enhancing privacy features.

Odaily Planet Daily News According to Cointelegraph disclosed on X platform, Near Protocol has announced a partnership with ETH Wallet provider MetaMask

Golden Finance reported that, according to Lookonchain monitoring, DWF Labs received 697,670 NEAR tokens worth about 300

Odaily Star Planet Daily News. Privacy and security computing network Nillion announced that it is integrating with NEAR, introducing blind computing and blind storage to the protocol. By combining Nillion's blind computing with NEAR's transaction processing, Nillion and NEAR will support modular data privacy, private data management, and private...

The carbon-neutral Block chain platform Open Forest Protocol (OFP) has completed its seed round of financing, led by Übermorgen Ventures, with participation from BackBone Ventures, GS Futures, Bloom Foundation, NEAR Foundation, and Foundation Valery. OFP provides no upfront cost, Open Source, network-based and on-chain carbon credit verification and issuance, driving the future of on-chain natural assets.

Gate News Bot news, July 3rd, according to CoinMarketCap data, as of the time of writing, NEAR (NEAR Protocol) is currently priced at $2.34, with an 8.27% rise in the last 24 hours, reaching a high of $2.34 and a low of $2.02. The 24-hour volume has reached $211 million. The current market capitalization is approximately $2.88 billion, an increase of $220 million compared to yesterday. NEAR is a modular high-speed protocol designed for AI, aimed at enabling AI to act, trade, coordinate, and evolve on behalf of users. NEAR is not just infrastructure; it is a foundation for a new type of internet where AI serves users. On NEAR, AI interacts with users as a front end and executes intentions, while the blockchain handles identity, trust, and data as the back end. NEAR provides developers with the tools to build.

According to the Gate News bot message, as per the official announcement from Gate on June 26, 2025. Gate has launched NEAR token staking mining services. The minimum investment threshold for this product is 1 NEAR, currently offering an annualized yield of 8.63%. The NEAR staking product uses an on-chain staking mechanism to provide users with on-chain returns through the NEAR Protocol. After users stake, interest starts to accrue the next day, and dividends are distributed on the third day, with earnings automatically issued daily in the form of NEAR tokens. The product supports flexible redemption, with a maximum redemption period of 3 days.

Odaily News Cross-border remittance application Abound announced the completion of a $14 million financing round, led by NEAR Foundation, with participation from Circle Ventures, Times Internet, and other investors. The company plans to use the new funds to expand its business scope, increase product variety, and improve its technological infrastructure, as well as gradually enter markets such as Canada, Singapore, and the UAE. (TechCrunch)

Gate News bot message, according to CoinDesk, the cross-border remittance application Abound has completed a $14 million seed round of financing. Investors in this round include Circle Ventures and Near Foundation. Abound is a project incubated by the digital agency under India's Times Group, focusing on providing cross-border remittance services for Non-Resident Indians (NRI). The company stated that it will use the funding to expand key personnel and upgrade its technological infrastructure.

According to ChainCatcher news and a report by TechCrunch, the cross-border remittance application Abound announced the completion of a $14 million financing round, led by the NEAR Foundation, with participation from Circle Ventures, Times Internet, and other investors. The company plans to use the new funds to expand its business scope, increase the variety of products, and improve its technological infrastructure, and it plans to gradually enter markets such as Canada, Singapore, and the UAE.

Odaily News Cross-border remittance app Abound announces the completion of a $14 million financing round, led by NEAR Foundation, with participation from Circle Ventures, Times Internet, and other investors. The company plans to use the new funds to expand its business scope, increase product variety, and improve its technological infrastructure, and it aims to gradually enter markets such as Canada, Singapore, and the UAE. (TechCrunch)

Odaily Planet Daily News NEAR co-founder Illia Polosukhin said at X that he will once again speak at the NVIDIA GTC conference this year and will publish a paper next week to introduce NEAR's research on confidential and verifiable AI computing. It is reported that the 2025 NVIDIA GTC conference will be held in San Jose, California, USA and online from March 16-21.

Odaily Planet Daily According to official sources, the NEAR Foundation has launched the NEAR AI Agent Fund, which will deploy 20 million US dollars of liquidity on-chain, focusing on expanding the development of fully autonomous and verifiable agents based on NEAR technology, to support a new type of Decentralization AI.

BlockBeats news, on January 9th, according to the official announcement, Grayscale's funds announced the latest fund component weights for each product. The Grayscale Decentralized AI Fund has added LPT to its fund components, including the following assets: NEAR, RENDER, TAO, FIL, GRT, and LPT. The Grayscale Decentralized Finance Fund (DEFG) has added CRV to its fund components, removed SNX, and now includes the following assets: UNI, AAVE, LDO, MKR, and CRV. The Grayscale Digital Large Cap Fund (GDLC) has added ADA to its fund components, removed AVAX, and now includes the following assets: BTC, ETH, SOL, XRP, and ADA. The fund components of the Grayscale Smart Contract Platform Ex-Ethereum Fund (GSCPxE Fund) have added

PANews December 19th news, according to The Block, Fraction AI, a startup focusing on data annotation, encryption, and artificial intelligence, has completed a $6 million Pre-Seed financing round. Spartan Group and Symbolic Capital jointly led this round of financing, with other investors including Borderless Capital, Anagram, Foresight Ventures, and Karatage. In addition, angel investors such as Sandeep Nailwal, co-founder of Polygon, and Illia Polosukhin, co-founder of NEAR Protocol, also participated and served as advisors. Fraction

Swiss wealth management company 21Shares has added four new ETPs to its European product lineup, covering price Oracle Machine, asset tokenization, Decentralization computing, and artificial intelligence. Investors can also reinvest NEAR stake rewards into these ETPs to enhance performance and client returns. These four ETFs will be traded on multiple exchanges.

Blockchain company Ringfence announced a partnership with NEAR.AI and appointed Illia Polosukhin, co-founder of NEAR Protocol, as an advisor to help users take control of their data and decide how artificial intelligence uses that data. Polosukhin has extensive professional knowledge in the fields of blockchain and artificial intelligence.

According to a report by Jinse Caijing, Near team members stated that the renaming of Near's Twitter account to "eyewash" was a marketing tactic for promoting a hackathon. Previously reported, at 8 o'clock on September 5th, Near official X announced that around 2:25 this morning, Near Protocol's official X account was hacked, and the hacker posted a series of posts attacking the Crypto ecosystem (some content has not been deleted according to the investigation).

The official X account of NEAR Protocol was hijacked by Hacker around 2:25 this morning, and Hacker posted a criticism of the Crypto ecosystem. Although the identity of the Hacker has not been confirmed, the security team led by security expert Mike Rotch has reviewed the incident and believes it is an isolated account hijacking incident, without phishing attacks on the NEAR community.

Odaily Planet Daily According to official sources, NEAR announced that Chain Signatures has been launched on the Mainnet. This is a groundbreaking chain abstract solution based on NEAR. With the completion of the testnet stage and security audit, developers can now use Chain Signatures' unique full-chain functionality to develop dApps on the Mainnet.

Golden Finance reports that Bitwise has announced the launch of its exchange-traded product, Bitwise NEAR Staking ETP, on the Deutsche Börse Xetra, aimed at providing institutional and retail investors with stakable NEAR investment exposure. It is reported that this NEAR ETP is the fourth exchange-traded product launched by Bitwise in the European market, following the previously launched stakable Bitwise Ethereum Staking ETP, which has recently surpassed 200 million euros in assets under management.

PANews reported on June 25th that the Near community proposed a plan to improve the NEAR Token economy through dropInflation, aiming to reduce the maximum inflation rate from 5% to 2.5%, with future flexibility for adjustments. If about 0.1% of the transaction fees are burned, the actual inflation rate will drop to 2.4%, and the dropstake yield may incentivize Tokenholders to participate in Decentralized Finance. The proposal points out that the current fixed 5% annual inflation rate of NEAR is causing an increase in circulating Tokens, dilution of equity, and devaluation of the Token due to insufficient transaction fee burn. However, the current support rate for the proposal is only 7.42%, with 36 days and 22 hours left until the vote ends. Opponents argue that reducing validator incentives by 50% will make validator nodes unprofitable, leading to a decrease in the number of validators and stakeholders. They also do not believe that there is a strong correlation between the inflation rate and price performance.

NEAR DefAI platform Delta Trade now supports the Solana chain, providing automated trading functions. The platform features grid robot automatic buying and selling, DCA regular purchasing, preparing to launch swing bot, chain abstraction to achieve multi-chain support. Activities include operating a points system on the Solana chain, supporting users to customize trading pairs and conduct DCA trades on the NEAR chain. The UI design is similar to the Windows XP interface.

According to official sources, the Satoshi Ramp Mainnet supports BTC Cross-Chain Interaction to the NEAR network. Its features are: -Each transaction requires 2 BTC block confirmations; -2 to 3 USD transaction fee; -Use BTC as Gas fee; -No need for a NEAR wallet, just 1 Bitcoin wallet Every DApp integrated on NEAR that incorporates the Satoshi protocol allows users to transact their BTC using a Bitcoin wallet.

Odaily Planet Daily News, Tether announced that it will coordinate with multiple exchanges to transfer more than 2 billion USDT from cold wallets to Ethereum. The total amount of USDT will not change during the process. Among them, there are 1 billion TRC20, 600 million AVAX, 300 million NEAR, 75 million CELO, and 60 million EOS.

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According to Jinse Finance, the independent entity Nuffle Labs, which separated from the NEAR Foundation, announced its cooperation with Eigen Layer. The NEARDA and NFFLAVS teams are developing a new protocol Nuff.

DeltaTrade, the Decentralization automatic Cryptocurrency trading project on NEAR, officially launched the DCA feature to meet the needs of the general market downturn. The project will also be launched on the Solana chain in the near future.

According to the Gate.io News bot, as reported by Wu, Grayscale has officially opened its decentralized AI fund to accredited investors. This fund focuses on the intersection of AI and Crypto Assets, and currently has a portfolio that includes six crypto assets: NEAR accounts for 24.54%, TAO for 27.18%, RENDER for 22.75%, FIL for 17.26%, GRT for 8.27%, and LPT. The fund has set a management fee rate of 2.5%, and the current Assets Under Management is approximately $1.05 million.

Encryption artificial intelligence startup GAIB has completed a $5 million pre-seed financing, led by Hack VC, Faction VC, and Hashed, with participation from several well-known institutions and individual investors.

Odaily Star Daily News According to official sources, NEAR Foundation and Delphi Labs jointly launched a new AI.

Concept coins related to AI are showing strong momentum, with ARKM rising by 17.4%, IQ rising by 24.1%, AGI rising by 22.8%, etc. NEAR, TAO, GRT, RENDER, and other currencies also demonstrate gains.

Golden Finance reported that Orderly Network announced that the upgrade will start in 30 minutes, and the EVM chain downtime will be from 16:00 to 15:00 on August 27th, and the NEAR chain downtime will be from 15:00 to 16:00 on August 27th.

Over the past 24 hours, crypto spot funds have fluctuated. Digital currencies such as SOL, BNB, and OM saw net inflows, reaching tens of millions of dollars respectively; Digital currencies such as BCH, XRP, DOGE and other cryptocurrencies saw net outflows, of which BCH and XRP had large net outflows.

Golden Finance reported that the NEAR Foundation announced on Thursday that the new Chain Abstraction feature, aimed at making seamless transactions between networks easier, has been launched on Mainnet - further demonstrating the increasing number of projects committed to the 'chain abstraction' design concept. NEAR co-founder Illia Polosukhin personally promoted the project's chain abstraction roadmap, aiming to simplify the Cryptocurrency user experience due to the continuous development of the multi-chain ecosystem.

PANews reported on July 21st that according to the official transparency page of Tether, the authorized issuance of USDT on the TON chain has surpassed Near and Celo, ranking fifth in USDT issuance volume on the blockchain, second only to Tron, Ethereum, Avalanche, and Solana. As of 11:59:01 PM UTC on July 20, 2024, the authorized issuance of USDT on the TON chain amounted to $730,000,002.

PANews January 4th news, DWF Labs partner Andrei Grachev disclosed in a post on X platform that in the past few days, DWF Labs has conducted AI on the Near, BNB, TON, Virtuals, and Solana chains.

gate launches PURGE Spot trading on gate.io, supporting participation in new coin Mining. The total reward for this Mining is 5,920,543 PURGE, supporting Mining with PURGE or NEAR stake, with an expected annualized return of up to 1192.5% in the staking pool. gate Startup new coin Mining is a low-threshold, high-yield, flexible stake product that distributes rewards every hour, and holding GT can also participate in multiple Mining with one coin.

Layer 1 tokens have risen in the past 24 hours, with ADA, AVAX, NEAR, ICP, ATOM, FTM, and AR all up by more than 10%, with ADA seeing the highest increase of 27.2%.

Jinse Finance reported that the total volume of protocolOrderly Network in the NEAR ecosystem has exceeded 780 billion US dollars, reaching 781.97 billion US dollars. Currently, the protocolTVL is 25.85 million US dollars, and the cumulative net fee income of the protocol is 7.284 million US dollars.

Jinse Finance reported that the total volume of the NEAR ecosystem trading protocol Orderly Network has exceeded 62 billion US dollars, reaching 620.704 billion US dollars at present. The current protocol TVL is 34.39 million US dollars, and the accumulated net fee income of the protocol has reached 6.635 million US dollars.