Select what genuinely interests you. Your picks feed directly into our editorial planning. NEAR Protocol trades at around $5.28 on Tuesday evening, between 6.0 and 6.2 percent above its level of 24 hours earlier depending on the venue. Bitcoin managed a little over 2 percent in the same window, Ether just under 1.8 percent. The gap is the story: NEAR ranks among the three strongest of the 25 largest cryptocurrencies today, and in the background a US fund has been buying tokens for three trading sessions in a row.