{"id":550,"date":"2026-08-27T14:16:44","date_gmt":"2026-08-27T14:16:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/1stblock.info\/?p=550"},"modified":"2026-08-27T14:16:44","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T14:16:44","slug":"near-jumps-4-7-as-security-overhaul-and-ai-rotation-fuel-rally","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/1stblock.info\/?p=550","title":{"rendered":"NEAR Jumps 4.7% as Security Overhaul and AI Rotation Fuel Rally"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>NEAR Protocol<\/strong> climbed <strong>4.7%<\/strong> over a 36-hour window this week, outperforming most large-cap altcoins as traders rotated into AI-linked tokens and cited the network&#8217;s recent security upgrades as a supporting catalyst, <em>according to CoinMarketCap&#8217;s market wrap<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The move builds on a broader run for <strong>NEAR<\/strong> through August. Earlier in the month the network activated a mainnet upgrade introducing quantum-safe accounts, positioning itself as one of the first major layer-1s to harden its infrastructure against future quantum-computing threats. The upgrade drew attention from traders who read it as a credibility signal for a chain that has spent the past year repositioning itself around AI-agent infrastructure rather than its original sharding-focused pitch.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Buybacks remain the other half of the story. <strong>NEAR<\/strong>&#8216;s Intents fee-switch mechanism, which routes a share of cross-chain transaction revenue directly into token purchases, has been running since February and continues to absorb part of the circulating supply with every wave of network activity. Combined with a prior cut to maximum annual inflation, from 5% to 2.5%, the mechanism gives <strong>NEAR<\/strong> a structurally different supply profile than most competing L1s, and traders have increasingly cited it as a reason the token holds gains better than pure narrative plays.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Institutional interest has been mixed rather than uniformly bullish. <strong>Grayscale<\/strong> trimmed its NEAR position within its AI-focused fund earlier in August even as the token remained the fund&#8217;s single largest holding, a reminder that even believers in the AI-infrastructure thesis are actively managing position size rather than treating NEAR as a one-way bet. Derivatives data shows leveraged long positions building alongside the rally, which increases upside momentum but also raises the risk of a sharper unwind if sentiment turns.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For traders watching the AI-token rotation broadly, NEAR&#8217;s setup illustrates a pattern playing out across the sector this month: security and infrastructure upgrades providing the narrative, fee-funded buybacks providing mechanical demand, and altcoin rotation providing the flow. Whether the rally extends will likely depend on whether NEAR&#8217;s upcoming Dynamic Resharding and further AI-tooling releases keep delivering on-chain activity to back the buyback engine, rather than the move being driven by short covering alone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEAR Protocol climbed 4.7% over a 36-hour window this week, outperforming most large-cap altcoins as traders rotated into<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":551,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-550","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-altcoins"],"brizy_media":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/1stblock.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/1stblock.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/1stblock.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1stblock.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1stblock.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=550"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/1stblock.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":552,"href":"https:\/\/1stblock.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550\/revisions\/552"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1stblock.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/551"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/1stblock.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1stblock.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1stblock.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}