PROJECT OBSERVATORYBack to Observatory ↗

NEAR Protocol

NEAR

One project. The whole picture.

The headlines, the observations and the chronology.
Your NEAR Protocol briefing, in one place.

Newsroom archiveDated observationsTop 50 · daily selection
Follow the timeline ↓
Price · USD$5.03
Market cap$6.58B
Volume · 24h$1.59B
Change · 24h-9.76%

NEAR / USD

Price history

Updated 13 Oct, 15:09 UTC

6 Oct 2026 – 13 Oct 2026

Token supply
Circulating
1,308,861,813 NEAR
Newsroom · last 7 days1Published in this category
Newsroom archive4All dates · unprotected stories
Tracked releases · 180 days7Selected public repositories only
Latest newsroom story06 Oct 2026Publication date · UTC

THE BRIEFING

NEAR Protocol, at a glance.

THE DEFI FOOTPRINT

Capital tracked on NEAR Protocol

$240.25MTotal value locked · USD
$276.76MDaily observations · USD
14 SepRange low: $130.32M13 Oct

TVL is separate from token price and market capitalization. Observed · 13 Oct 2026, 14:15 UTC.

THE CHRONOLOGY

What happened. What came next.

125 matching entries · Page 1 of 7

Newsroom17:07 UTC · Published

NEAR AI Adds GPT-6.1 Sol as Agent Stack Expands

NEAR AI has added GPT-6.1 Sol to its cloud model catalog as it continues building infrastructure around private inference and autonomous agents. The model arrives with a 1.05 million-token context window and support for text and image inputs, while NEAR describes it…

Newsroom15:27 UTC · Published

NEAR AI Expands Confidential Inference Into User-Owned Stack

NEAR is broadening the positioning of its artificial-intelligence infrastructure from private model execution toward what it calls “user-owned intelligence,” combining confidential inference with secure agents and verifiable execution. According to NEAR AI’s official platform overview, supported open-weight models run inside hardware-isolated environments…

Newsroom13:39 UTC · Published

Bitwise NEAR ETF Revives $562 Valuation Scenario

Bitwise has launched its first U.S. spot NEAR exchange-traded product while reviving attention around an earlier research model that assigned the token dramatically different 2030 outcomes depending on whether its AI-agent thesis succeeds. The Bitwise NEAR ETF, trading on NYSE Arca under…

Newsroom13:50 UTC · Published

NEAR AI Cloud Joins OpenRouter With Confidentiality Caveat

NEAR AI Cloud is now available as an inference provider on OpenRouter, giving developers access to its model-serving infrastructure through an existing OpenRouter API key and balance. According to NEAR AI’s official September 28 announcement, the service appears under the provider slug…

All published, unprotected stories in this project’s category are available through these pages. Official publications cover the last 180 days of our tracked sources. Publication entries use publication dates. Market entries use the source observation time, with one record per UTC day.

BENEATH THE HEADLINES

The observations, in context.

DeFi total value locked

$240.25M
$276.76MDaily observations · USD
14 SepRange low: $130.32M13 Oct

Observed · 13 Oct 2026, 14:39 UTC. Price and protocol coverage can affect USD totals.

BUILD & SHIP

Published project updates.

Software publications from the repositories we track. Release counts do not measure developer numbers, commit activity or project quality. Publication dates are not activation dates.

Browse all tracked releases →

READ THE CONTEXT

About this dossier.

NEAR Protocol · NEAR

This dossier follows the project through our published coverage and the observations available for its verified identity. It updates as new information enters our collections.

Assets, networks and protocols are different entities. We do not assign a host network’s activity to every token issued on it.

Last observed in the daily selection: 13 Oct 2026 00:07 UTC. Leaving the top 50 does not remove this dossier or its news archive.

PROJECT REFERENCES

Explore the project.

Identity references supplied by CoinMarketCap · checked 10 Oct 2026. Repository publications cover only our selected sources.

The Chain Observer
Privacy Overview

This website uses cookies so that we can provide you with the best user experience possible. Cookie information is stored in your browser and performs functions such as recognising you when you return to our website and helping our team to understand which sections of the website you find most interesting and useful.