NEAR is up 211% this year, and the whole move is one month old

NEAR is being written up as approaching a 200% year, and the report puts the figure at 198.4%. On CoinGecko's series it is already 211.0%. The more useful observation is not that the level has been passed but how little of the year it took.

The same twelve months, cut three ways:

• From 1 January to today: $1.5125 to $4.70, which is 211.0%.
• From the 12 February low of $0.964: 4.88 times.
• From a year ago to a month ago: minus 35.2%, before a 153.4% month.

“Significantly extended after practically doubling in a brief amount of time.”

— U.Today, From the report on NEAR

U.Today, on the state of the move

Those three lines describe one month, not one year. NEAR was lower in late August than it had been the previous September, and everything that makes 2026 a good year for it happened after that. A year-to-date number is an accounting window, and in this case it is carrying a thirty-day move on its back.

Turnover says the same thing

Activity backs that reading. NEAR turned over $1.41bn in 24 hours against a market cap of $6.15bn, which is 23.0% of the token changing hands in a day. That is down from the 38.3% we measured four days ago and still far above anything that looks like accumulation. The report itself notes RSI near 75 and calls the asset significantly extended, which is an unusually candid line for a piece with a rally headline.

The driver is worth revisiting because the ratio has changed. On 21 September we measured NEAR rising 23.15% in a day against Zcash's 4.59%, a factor of five, as ZEC swap traffic moved through NEAR Intents. Over the full thirty days the two look much closer: NEAR is up 153.4% and the asset whose traffic it routes is up 101.8%, a factor of 1.51. The router outran the asset, but by half again rather than fivefold once you stop looking at a single session.

One number for proportion

One number keeps the rest in proportion. NEAR's record is $20.44, set on 16 January 2022, and at $4.70 it remains 77.0% below that. Returning there requires a further 334%. A 211% year is real and it is also the fourth-best month in a token still trading at less than a quarter of its high, which is the same split our four winter tests keep producing: strong recent numbers sitting on top of a year most assets have not recovered.

Informational material, not investment advice. Prices, volumes and percentage moves are CoinGecko data read on 25 September 2026 and change continuously; support and resistance levels are the cited report's.