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# NEAR this week: +15% in seven days, positive funding on perps
- URL: https://zipmex.com/blog/near-weekly-2026-09-08/
- Published: 2026-09-08T13:40:12.000Z
- Updated: 2026-09-08T13:40:12.000Z
- Description: NEAR Protocol closed the week at $2.26 (+14.9% in 7 days, +39.9% in 30). Market cap, the seven-day range and what the ZIPMEX perp market is charging to hold a position, with sources.
- Author: ZIPMEX
- Tags: NEAR, Cryptocurrency

NEAR Protocol (NEAR) trades at $2.26 on September 8, 2026: -4.9% over 24 hours, +14.9% over seven days and +39.9% over thirty. That leaves it 89% below the all-time high of $20.44 set on 2022-01-16\. Here is what the market and the ZIPMEX perp book say about the week, with every number sourced.

## The numbers

| Price                   | $2.26   |
| ----------------------- | ------- |
| 24 hours                | \-4.9%  |
| 7 days                  | +14.9%  |
| 30 days                 | +39.9%  |
| Market cap              | $3.0B   |
| 24h volume (all venues) | $290.4M |
| Market rank             | #33     |
| Perp open interest      | $42.3K  |
| Perp 24h volume         | $15.7K  |
| Max leverage            | 20x     |

## Perps: funding and open interest

On ZIPMEX Perps the NEAR/USDC market shows an estimated funding rate of +0.0096% per eight hours (last settled: +0.0099%), $42.3K of open interest and $15.7K traded in 24 hours. Positive funding means longs are paying shorts: leveraged traders lean bullish and pay for the privilege. Max leverage is 20x.

## Levels from the last seven days

The seven-day high was $2.49 on 2026-09-06 and the low $1.84 on 2026-09-02, a 35% range. Reclaiming the all-time high would take a 9.0x from here. We do not publish price predictions; these are the levels the market actually printed.

## Method and sources

Snapshot taken 2026-09-08 13:40 UTC. Price, supply and market cap: CoinGecko. Perps: ZIPMEX Perps public market data. Volume across all venues and all-time high: aggregated market data. This digest is generated from those feeds and reviewed by ZIPMEX Research; numbers on the [NEAR landing](https://zipmex.com/tokens/near/) refresh every minute.

*Crypto assets are volatile and you can lose your capital. Nothing here is investment advice.*

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