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 perc...