# NEAR Protocol (NEAR) Futures Open Interest Sits at $1.106 Billion

By Enna Lee

Canonical URL: https://www.tokenpost.com/news/investing/45812
Published: 2026-11-01T10:46:01.000Z
Updated: 2026-11-01T10:46:01.000Z
Section: Investing

> The $1,106,066,922 display measures outstanding contracts, not trading volume or market direction.

NEAR Protocol (NEAR) futures open interest was listed at $1,106,066,922, or about $1.106 billion, in a live market display.

Open interest counts futures contracts that remain open. Trading volume measures contracts traded during a period, so the two figures describe different activity.

The total does not show whether traders are collectively bullish or bearish on NEAR. Each open futures contract has both a long and a short side.