NEAR climbs 6.0 percent to $5.28: more than twice as strong as Bitcoin

NEAR Protocol trades at around $5.28 on Tuesday evening, between 6.0 and 6.2 percent above its level of 24 hours earlier depending on the venue. Bitcoin managed a little over 2 percent in the same window, Ether just under 1.8 percent. The gap is the story: NEAR ranks among the three strongest of the 25 largest cryptocurrencies today, and in the background a US fund has been buying tokens for three trading sessions in a row. NEAR price today: $5.28 after a $4.88 session low The day started weakly. The low was $4.88 and the high $5.45, a span of 11.6 percent. NEAR currently trades at about $5.28, closer to the high than to the low. Over a week it is up roughly 9 percent; over a month the price is close to flat. Market capitalisation stands at just under $6.9 billion, rank 22 among all cryptocurrencies. The all-time high of $20.40 from January 2022 remains about 74 percent away. Anyone holding NEAR since that peak is still sitting on a clear loss, good day or not. The figures differ slightly between venues because each sets its own 24-hour reference point. The 6.0 to 6.2 percent range is therefore more precise than a single smoothed number. More than twice as strong as Bitcoin: the da...