Even as Bitcoin
and other cryptocurrencies fell, the Near Protocol price defied the odds and
climbed to an all-time high. The NEAR price has risen for two days in a row and
is now trading above $8.66, which is around 40% higher than the previous
all-time high. According to CoinMarketCap, the platform has a total market
capitalization of over $3.9 billion, making it the world's 45th largest
cryptocurrency according to CoinMarketCap.
What is the Near Protocol?
The Near
Protocol is the foundation for NEAR, a decentralised development network. The
protocol is based on a proof-of-stake model that also incorporates sharding and
other technologies.
The network,
like Ether, Solana, and Polkadot, allows developers to create decentralised
apps similar to those found in the DeFi and NFT ecosystems. The platform's key
benefit is that it is relatively fast, has low gas prices, and is highly
scalable.
The NEAR
Protocol employs a method known as "sharding," which divides the
network into many sections (shards) to allow for parallel transaction
processing. This implies that the network's capacity has no theoretical limit.
Transactions are batch-processed and executed on several shards at the same
time while processing in parallel. One shard is theoretically its own blockchain
with its own resources and validators, but they can interact and communicate
with each other.
More developers
have switched to the Near Protocol during the last several months. Maker DAO,
Ampleforth, and CommonFund are a some of the network's most popular DeFi apps.
Flux, a quick and inexpensive decentralised open market protocol, and Paras, a
highly scalable NFT platform, are two others.
The price of the
Near Protocol is stable, in part because the volume of transactions in the
network is stable. The number of transactions in the last 24 hours has grown to
more than 316k, slightly less than the month's high of 322k at the time of
writing. As you can see in the graph below, the number of daily transactions is
approaching an all-time high. In addition, the number of new accounts has
reached an all-time high.
Still, we cannot
exclude out the possibility that Fear of Missing out (FOMO) is a major driver
of the NEAR price rise. Many retail traders have switched to the network in the
hopes that it will be the next big thing, with the token's price soaring by
more than 500 percent from its lowest point in July.
The NEAR price
has been in a strong bullish trend for the past few weeks, as shown on the
daily chart. The coin has surpassed a key resistance level at $7.2345, which
was the previous all-time high. It also soared over the black bullish pennant
formation.
The coin has
also risen beyond its 25-day moving average. As a result, while the upward
trend may continue, the Near Protocol bullish run is likely to come to an end.
If this occurs, the crucial support level at $7.2345 will be the next level to
monitor.
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