NEAR Falls Almost 8 Percent After a 62 Percent Week: What to Check on Perps, Buying Route and Holding Period

NEAR Protocol falls sharply on September 24, 2026, yet remains one of the strongest performers among the top 25 cryptocurrencies over the week. Anyone holding NEAR, or looking to buy in now, therefore has to judge two things at once: a short-term pullback, and a rally built on a very particular product that is not readily accessible in Europe. This article puts the numbers in context, explains what triggered the upswing, and then works through the points you as an investor in Germany can actually check: the buying route under MiCA, custody, the holding period, and the records the tax office will want to see. NEAR price on September 24, 2026: The figures from our own survey cryptoticker.io retrieved the following values itself on September 24, 2026, between 08:47 and 08:50 UTC, via CoinGecko's public programming interface, both calls returning status code 200. Because three minutes lay between the two calls, individual values differ. We give them as a range and do not smooth them. Price: $4.22, and around €3.69 on venues with a euro pair. Change over 24 hours: minus 6.9 to minus 7.9 percent. Change over seven days: plus 55.2 to plus 61.8 percent. Change over 30 days: plus 118.6 percent. Daily range: $4.09 at the low, $4.79 at the high. Trading volume over 24 hours: around $2.15 billion. Market capitalisation: around $5.51 billion, 23rd place. Distance from the all-time high of $20.44 set on January 16, 2022: 79.3 percent. Two of these figures deserve attention. The first is the distance from the all-time high. Even after a month of plus 118.6 percent, NEAR trades around four fifths below its price of early 2022. Reading the current move as a return to old highs underestimates how far that road still runs. The second is the ratio of trading volume to market capitalisation: with $2.15 billion of turnover against $5.51 billion of market value, almost forty percent of the market value arithmetically changes hands in a single day. Turnover on that scale belongs to a phase in which short-term traders set the price, not long-term holders. The running price action and the key levels can be found in our NEAR price prediction. What triggered the rally: confidential perpetual futures via Hyperliquid Last week's upswing has an identifiable cause. NEAR has switched on confidential perpetual futures contracts, known as confidential perps, which run over an existing connection to the derivatives venue Hyperliquid. The trade press dates the launch to September 17 or September 18, 2026; the accounts differ by a day, and we were unable to confirm an official date on the project's own pages. A perpetual future, or perp, is a futures contract with no expiry date.