NEAR Protocol Intents TVL hits $169M following 77% monthly surge
NEAR Protocol (NEAR)
Editor:
Eugene Serbin
cryptocurrency.com.tr reports that NEAR Protocol’s Intents total value locked has reached $169M after a 77% monthly surge. This growth in TVL highlights increasing cross-chain demand for the protocol. However, the expansion also raises concerns regarding increased risk exposure across multiple networks.
How the market reacted
Whalio's own Binance spot order flow for NEAR, measured when this story was written up on 20 September 2026. Not the outlet's figures.
NEAR Protocol is currently trading at $3.59 with a 24-hour spot volume of $183,204,038. Buy ratios are 47.4% over the last hour and 46.2% over four hours, compared to 49.3% over 24 hours, indicating that buying pressure is fading in the short term. The Volume Delta is negative across all timeframes, showing -$626,250 in the last hour, -$1,784,914 over four hours, and -$2,581,324 over 24 hours. This negative delta means that sell volume has exceeded buy volume, pushing the Cumulative Volume Delta (CVD) to -$2,207,754 by the 24-hour close. Net buying occurred for only 11 of the last 24 hours.
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 coin experienced a 51.3% price increase and saw volume 1.60 times the average. The 7-day average buy ratio was 49.8%, while the latest day recorded a ratio 0.5 points lower. Net buying was active for 5 of the 7 days, with a total positive Volume Delta of $1,605,255 for the period. This recent day of lower buy ratio and negative delta is an unusual deviation from the strong weekly trend.