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NEAR Protocol is a sharded layer-1 blockchain platform for building decentralized apps, using its native NEAR token for fees and staking.
Helius CEO Mert Mumtaz has joined the NEAR Foundation Council, putting a Solana infrastructure founder on a rival network's oversight body. NEAR has promised to repay about $3.8 million lost to an October 1 deposit bug, Bankless reported.
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Bitwise research head Ryan Rasmussen says NEAR's $5.3 million in buybacks since February do not yet offset new token issuance. He still backs NEAR and Hyperliquid on revenue, in an interview with Crypto Briefing.
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Bitcoin traded around $83,450 in the European morning as economists forecast US CPI inflation of 3.6%, up from 3.4%. CoinDesk reported open interest in bitcoin is down 3.5% as positions are closed ahead of the print.
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Bitwise CIO Matt Hougan puts NEAR at $155.85 by 2030, a 40-fold gain, on a model of 328 million AI agents making 1,000 transactions a year. The base case is built on agent payments alone, yet Hougan says existing chain activity backstops the token if agentic finance fails.
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NEAR futures open interest rose 19.16% to $1.95 billion as the token neared $6, CoinGlass data cited by crypto.news showed. The contracts equal about 25.5% of the token's $7.65 billion market cap, though price alone explains much of the increase since August.
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Net outflows from U.S. spot bitcoin ETFs reached $681 million last week, according to SoSoValue, their highest since June. Small tokens rallied through it, and CoinDesk research says their order books are still thinning.
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NEAR Protocol rose about 6% to $5.50 and passed Stellar's $6.97 billion market value to rank 20th on CoinGecko, crypto.news reported. NEAR's own seven-day gain was 0.6%, so most of the swap in rank came from XLM's 12.8% weekly slide.
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Quantus opened QTC trading through Near Intents, reachable from 180-plus assets on 30-plus chains, with no centralized exchange listing at launch. The test is whether swap routing can give a new coin the depth and holders that a listing usually brings.
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Grayscale research head Zach Pandl says AI-linked tokens rose 54% in September against 24% for crypto overall, with NEAR up 183%. Broken out token by token, the figures show one strong name in a small sector more than a market pricing blockchains as infrastructure for agents.
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NEAR is up 135% in 30 days at about $5.16, with $1.63 billion of futures open interest and a proposal to cut annual issuance from 2.5% to 1.6%. At that price the cut would withhold about $61 million of new tokens a year, a small sum beside the leveraged positions.
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Bitwise's NRR, the first U.S. spot NEAR ETF, gathered about $58 million in its first three sessions, according to a Bankless tally of daily flows. Inflows shrank each day, so the coming weeks will test whether Bitwise's AI pitch for NEAR finds buyers after the launch.
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BlackRock's IBIT took in $450 million last week while all US spot bitcoin ETFs together netted $241 million, about 90% less than the week before. That keeps a three-week inflow streak alive on one fund's buyers heading into October.
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NEAR Intents got back all $3.8 million drained through a bug between its Omni deposit-and-withdrawal layer and its contract, after encrypted talks. Whether that layer is safe now rests on the patch, since every user who lets the protocol choose a bridge depends on it.
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Near Intents halted its cross-chain swap service after a bug in its Omni deposit layer let an attacker take about $3.8 million. Crypto balances carry no deposit insurance, so affected users are relying on the operator's promise to repay them in full.
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NEAR Intents' SHIELD layer refused all but $166,000 of a $50 million-plus attempt by Bitget's hackers. That makes screening policy the clearest difference between NEAR and THORChain. Each protocol carries a different exposure because of it.
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NEAR Protocol is weighing a cut in maximum issuance from 2.5% to 1.6% over 24 months, keeping about 66 million NEAR, some $329 million, off the market. Projected staking yield would fall from about 5.4% to 3.5%, a bigger drop than the dilution stakers escape.
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Bitwise's NRR, the first US spot NEAR ETF, stakes its tokens and keeps about 67% of a roughly 5% reward rate for shareholders. After the 0.75% fee, that comes to roughly 2.6% a year in extra tokens, just above NEAR's 2.5% inflation.
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Bitwise's NEAR ETF, ticker NRR, cleared NYSE Arca and the SEC on September 24 to list with 100% of its tokens staked, for a 0.75% annual fee. Holders only beat plain price exposure if staking rewards beat that fee, and one listing tells us less about SEC policy on staking than it appears to.
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The Responsible Fintech Institute has put NIST-standardized signing in front of supervisors from Abu Dhabi, Bhutan and Malta. The code that would let anyone check the work comes later.
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Crypto Briefing reports NEAR's token rose from about $2.34 to $3.60 after its confidential futures product launched on Hyperliquid's engine, and the same account's price and market cap figures imply different gains.
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