NEAR Protocol's native, NEAR, was changing hands at $4.92 on October 5, 2026, according to COINOTAG, holding its position after one of the strongest altcoin advances of the recent period.

Early September set the stage. In the first days of the month, the NEAR price sat near $1.80, and the weeks that followed turned that quiet level into an almost threefold climb that carried the token to the $5.50 line. Measured against that starting point, the current $4.92 quote stands roughly 170 percent higher while sitting about 10 percent below the $5.50 line, meaning most of the September advance remains intact even with the token trading under the high of the run.

For context, NEAR Protocol is a layer-one blockchain that uses sharding to process transactions in parallel. Its NEAR token serves as the network's native asset, used to pay transaction fees and to secure the protocol through staking. That dual role gives the token's market level a functional footing inside the protocol, since both network fees and staking run through NEAR itself. Against that backdrop, the past month has produced a clear set of reference levels: $1.80 as the early-September base, $5.50 as the line the climb reached, and the current $4.92 reading marking where the token sits between the two following one of the period's strongest altcoin moves.

This report was first published by COINOTAG.