NEAR Intents tops 32 billion USD: What it means for the NEAR Protocol price

Published on 10/24/2026 at 07:02 | Editorial responsibility: Rafael Müller, Editor-in-Chief AD HOC NEWS

Q3 fees exceeded 52 million USD, with 8 million USD captured for buybacks. The NEAR Protocol price is 4.95 USD on October 24, 2026, down 6.83 percent.

Network activity and fund flows

A Q3 report dated October 19, 2026, put cumulative NEAR Intents volume above 32 billion USD.
NEAR captured more than 8 million USD for buybacks from cumulative fees exceeding 52 million USD.
The NEAR Protocol price stands at 4.95 USD as of October 24, 2026, 6.83 percent below the UTC daily close of October 23, 2026.
NEAR spot funds recorded a 513,000 USD net inflow on October 22, 2026.

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NEAR Protocol (NEAR) reported cumulative NEAR Intents volume above 32 billion USD in its Q3 update dated October 19, 2026, according to NEAR Protocol. The NEAR Protocol price is 4.95 USD as of October 24, 2026, down 6.83 percent compared with the UTC daily close of October 23, 2026, according to Investing.com.

NEAR reports 52 million USD in cumulative fees

The October 19, 2026, Q3 report said cumulative fees from NEAR Intents exceeded 52 million USD. NEAR captured more than 8 million USD for buybacks, while lifetime fee capture reached 16.4 percent on October 6, 2026, according to NEAR Protocol. NEAR Intents is a cross-chain transaction system that lets users specify an outcome while network solvers execute the transaction across different blockchains.

The same report said cumulative Intents volume was up 45 percent from the second quarter of 2026. It also described the July 20, 2026, version 2.13 mainnet upgrade, which introduced dynamic resharding, meaning the network can split shards as demand grows, and post-quantum account signing based on the ML-DSA standard, according to NEAR Protocol.

NEAR funds post 513,000 USD inflow

NEAR spot exchange-traded funds, which hold the token in a regulated fund structure, recorded a net inflow of 513,000 USD on October 22, 2026, according to Crypto ETF Today. The report said the inflow came through the Bitwise NEAR ETF and brought cumulative net flows to 87.3 million USD across 18 trading days.

Flows were uneven across the period. NEAR funds recorded a net outflow of 2.5389 million USD on October 20, 2026, according to TokenPost. The same report put cumulative NEAR fund inflows at 85.9264 million USD after that session.

NEAR Protocol price stands at 4.95 USD

The NEAR Protocol price stands at 4.95 USD as of October 24, 2026, down 6.83 percent compared with the UTC daily close of October 23, 2026, according to Investing.com. The daily high is 5.33 USD and the daily low (UTC day) is 4.89 USD. Market capitalization is 6.47 billion USD, ranking NEAR 16th, while 24-hour volume is 972.18 million USD. Circulating supply is 1.31 billion NEAR.