NEAR and PHALA AI Interest Meets Whalio Spot Data
NEAR Protocol (NEAR)
Editor:
Eugene Serbin
Techbullion.com reports that AI-focused tokens NEAR and PHALA are drawing renewed trading interest in September. NEAR Protocol trades around $5.14 following an earlier rally, while PHALA sits near $0.068 after a sharp daily decline. The outlet distinguishes between real project work and price moves that may have already occurred.
Remittix enters the discussion with its PayFi platform targeting bank-bound payouts and a live perpetuals venue. RTX is scheduled to debut on November 24 after the project passed $32 million in contributions. Phala’s documentation highlights confidential computation for private, verifiable workloads in AI applications.
NEAR serves a broader ecosystem with tools for decentralized service developers. Remittix aims to turn supported crypto into local fiat sent to compatible bank accounts across more than 30 currencies. Its iOS wallet has recorded more than 10,000 downloads according to the project. The project has raised over $32 million with more than 40,000 participants against a $36 million hard cap.
How the market reacted
Whalio's own Binance spot order flow for NEAR, measured when this story was written up on 27 September 2026. Not the outlet's figures.
NEAR Protocol is trading at $5.04 with a 1-hour buy ratio of 54.6% and a 4-hour buy ratio of 53.8%. These short-term figures indicate stronger buying pressure compared to the 24-hour buy ratio of 49.8%. Volume delta shows positive inflows of $273,225 over the last hour and $2,244,803 over four hours, contrasting with a negative 24-hour delta of -$460,254. This suggests that recent buying activity is outpacing selling in the immediate term, even as the full day shows net outflows. The cumulative volume delta for the 24-hour close is positive at $7,385,446. Net buying occurred for 17 of the 24 hours, with spot volume reaching $128,880,615 across 532,269 trades.
The latest daily buy ratio of 50.8% sits at the 68th percentile of the last 323 days, against a median of 49.7% - ordinary for this coin.
Was that an ordinary day?
The same Binance spot measurements for NEAR, averaged over the days leading up to the story.
Over the preceding week, the average buy ratio was 51.1%, making the latest day’s reading 1.3 percentage points lower than that average. Trading volume was recorded at 0.42 times the average, indicating a quieter market than usual. The coin experienced a 40.4% price increase over eight days, driven by a total volume delta of $43,863,953. Net buying was observed on 5 of the 7 days in that period. This recent activity marks an unusual surge compared to the standard weekly baseline.