NEAR Protocol price rises 5.01 percent to 5.02 USD on October 22, 2026

Published on 10/22/2026 at 07:04 | Editorial responsibility: Rafael Müller, Editor-in-Chief AD HOC NEWS

An issuance vote targets 1.6 percent annual issuance over 24 months. The NEAR Protocol price nears a 5.09 USD daily high.

Issuance, flows and network activity

House of Stake voting on October 20, 2026, proposed lowering annual NEAR issuance from 2.5 percent to 1.6 percent over 24 months.
Bitwise's NEAR spot ETF recorded a 2.61 million USD inflow on October 16, 2026.
The NEAR Protocol price stands at 5.02 USD as of October 22, 2026, 5.01 percent above the UTC daily close of October 15, 2026.
The House of Stake ballot is scheduled to close on November 2, 2026.
NEAR reported more than 34 billion USD in Intents volume on October 13, 2026.

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NEAR Protocol (NEAR) rises 5.01 percent to 5.02 USD on October 22, 2026. The NEAR Protocol price is 5.02 USD as of October 22, 2026, compared with the UTC daily close of October 15, 2026; its market capitalization is 6.56 billion USD and its rank is 16, according to Investing.com.

Issuance proposal targets 1.6 percent over 24 months

House of Stake voting opened on October 20, 2026, on HSP-029, a proposal to reduce NEAR's maximum annual token issuance from 2.5 percent to a 1.6 percent target over 24 months. The proposal describes a gradual, per-epoch adjustment rather than a single change to the supply rate, according to NEAR Forum.

The proposal retains a 90 percent allocation of newly issued tokens to staking participants and 10 percent to the treasury, according to NEAR Forum. Staking is the process of locking tokens to help secure a proof-of-stake network. A separate validator upgrade would be required before the lower issuance ceiling could take effect, according to TokenPost.

ETF inflow reached 2.61 million USD on October 16

Bitwise's NEAR spot exchange-traded fund recorded a 2.61 million USD net inflow on October 16, 2026, its second consecutive session of inflows, according to TokenPost. A spot ETF holds the underlying asset or an equivalent exposure rather than using a futures contract. The same report put cumulative net inflows at 83.05 million USD and net assets at 82.36 million USD on that date.

The issuance proposal models gross staking yield declining from 5.268 percent to 3.372 percent at the 1.6 percent target, using a 42.71 percent staking assumption, according to TokenPost. The House of Stake ballot is scheduled to close on November 2, 2026, according to Cryptonews.net.

NEAR stands at 5.02 USD with 1.30 billion USD in volume

NEAR trades at 5.02 USD as of October 22, 2026, 5.01 percent above the UTC daily close of October 15, 2026. The daily high is 5.09 USD and the daily low for the UTC day is 4.91 USD. Market capitalization is 6.56 billion USD, ranking NEAR 16th, while 24-hour volume is 1.30 billion USD and circulating supply is 1.31 billion NEAR, according to Investing.com.