NEAR Jumps 21 Percent: What to Check on the NEAR@3.33 Incentive Programme and the New Perps

NEAR rose to $3.68 on September 18, 2026, around 21 percent higher than 24 hours earlier. The trigger is documented and comes in two parts: near.com has launched confidential perpetual futures that run on Hyperliquid's infrastructure, and alongside it set off an incentive programme that puts 333,333 tokens in prospect. Payout only follows once the three-day average price reaches the $3.33 mark. For you in Germany, three practical questions hang on this: whether you can legally reach the product at all, what 40x leverage does to your position when it goes wrong, and how the tax office sorts incentive tokens and perp gains. NEAR price on September 18, 2026: these are the documented figures The data behind this article comes from CoinGecko's public market interface, retrieved on September 18, 2026 at 19:52 UTC. At that moment NEAR was quoted at $3.68. The 24-hour gain stood at 20.8 percent, and the trading range over the same period ran between $2.99 and $3.82. The 24-hour volume was $2.03 billion and market capitalisation $4.81 billion, which placed NEAR 23rd among the largest crypto assets by market value. Anyone laying several sources side by side today will see different percentag...