# NEAR Protocol Rises 6.62% in Four Hours to Reach $4.68

By Enna Lee

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Published: 2026-09-24T17:12:25.000Z
Updated: 2026-09-24T17:12:25.000Z

NEAR Protocol (NEAR) climbed 6.62% in four hours to $4.68 as of 12:52 p.m. ET (16:52 UTC) Thursday, extending its 24-hour gain to 10.08%.

The move took NEAR from $4.39 four hours earlier to its latest price on Binance’s NEAR/USDT spot market. TokenPost collected and calculated the figures directly from publicly available exchange prices.

Liquidations during the same one-hour period reached $90,000 for long positions and $230,000 for short positions across Binance, Bybit and OKX. NEAR ranked 22nd by market capitalization at approximately $5.99733 billion.