MyNearWallet Closes on October 31: What It Means for Your NEAR Coins

The information provided in this article is for informational purposes only and does not constitute financial advice. Cryptocurrency investments carry a high degree of risk. Always conduct your own research.MyNearWallet shuts down on October 31, 2026, and its feature set starts shrinking in October. Your NEAR stay onchain, but browser access falls away: what to know about migration, the staking unbonding period, phishing and the holding period.MyNearWallet, one of the oldest browser wallets for the NEAR protocol, is being shut down on October 31, 2026. Your NEAR balances will still sit on the blockchain afterwards, but the route you have been reaching them through in the browser disappears. Do nothing and you lose no balance, then, only convenient access to it, and you will have to claw that access back later through your recovery data the hard way. The deadline falls on a day when NEAR is the only one of the 25 largest cryptocurrencies in positive territory. The two belong together: the price brings new holders into the network, and many of them land through search results on precisely the wallet that closes in a good three weeks. MyNearWallet in one sentence: what a browser walle...