Historical replay · NEAR/USD
NEAR's Orderly Climb (September 2026)
From $2.30 on September 16 to $5.21 on the 25th: NEAR rose about 127% in nine days, with only two down closes along the way and daily volume peaking at $544 million.
NEAR Protocol spent the first part of August 2026 almost motionless around $1.60, trading about $12 million a day on Binance. It started to wake up in the second half of the month and climbed through early September, touching $2.73 on September 11 before sliding back. On the morning of September 16 it printed $2.297 — the low from which this replay begins.
The first push was the fastest. NEAR closed September 16 at $2.62, then added 20% on September 17 and another 20% on September 18, closing at $3.76 with $341 million changing hands that day — more than the whole of an ordinary August week. September 19 brought the first down close, a 4.6% dip to $3.59, but the day's low, $3.40, still held above the level where the previous session had opened.
The next leg came on Sunday, September 20. In the 15:00 and 16:00 UTC hours alone NEAR jumped from about $3.68 to $4.25, the two strongest hourly candles of the whole window, before giving some of it back in the following hour. From there the pattern repeated: new highs on September 21 and 22, then a sharp shake-out on September 23, when a single hour starting at 15:00 UTC took the price from $4.65 to $4.22 — a 9.3% drop — on the heaviest trading day of the run, $544 million.
That dip didn't break the trend. NEAR closed September 24 at $4.59 and reached the window's high of $5.211 at 16:00 UTC on September 25, roughly 127% above the September 16 low. Of the eleven daily closes from September 16 to 26, nine were higher than the day before. Early on September 27, just after this replay ends, it pushed on above $5.40.
The replay is a useful counterweight to the flash crashes elsewhere in this collection. Strong trends often look like this in hindsight: a staircase of higher lows, occasional sharp but shallow pullbacks, and volume that stays high rather than fading. In real time, each of those pullbacks felt like it might be the top — which is the part worth practising.