🚨 NEAR Protocol Just Dropped MASSIVE News… Is This The Start of a Parabolic Move?!

Hinzugefügt: 2026-05-14

[00:00:00]In the past couple of days, we've seen multiple different bullish pieces of news come out about NEAR Protocol. And as you can see, it has caused the price of this coin to go somewhat parabolic.

[00:00:10]So, in today's video, I'm going to explain why I am so bullish on this project, what I expect out of the short and long-term for this coin, and what's going on in the crypto market as we speak. But before I get into all of that, guys, if you like this project and other strong altcoins, please do me a favor and smash that like and subscribe button. So, yeah, just 1 week ago today, we were trading at about $1.27, and since then, we have rallied all the way up to $1.60, and it seems like this rally could be just getting started. Before I talk about what actually caused this rally, I did want to talk about why this coin could be one of the top altcoins for the next cycle. So, NEAR Protocol is positioning itself as an AI-native blockchain, and this is incredibly important, in my opinion, because AI has been the hottest narrative throughout all financial markets, and I don't expect that to change anytime soon. So, rather than just trying to compete with other layer one blockchains on the faster-than-Ethereum narrative, they are taking it one step further, and this will likely cause NEAR to outperform the majority of other layer ones for the next couple of years. Another thing that NEAR Protocol is doing is fixing one of the largest problems in all of crypto.

[00:01:25]If you guys are experienced crypto traders, and you've used DeFi wallets rather than just crypto exchanges, you would understand just how difficult things can get when you're dealing with different chains, wallets, bridges, and wrapped assets. But the thing with NEAR Protocol is they are basically aiming to do all of this behind the scenes, which, of course, makes crypto so much more user-friendly. I do believe that the learning curve for crypto has limited its true potential. So, if NEAR Protocol can continue to make this much easier for the everyday person, There is a much higher likelihood that we will see more different crypto projects have success.

[00:02:03]So, this is absolutely massive. And the last reason why I am personally so bullish on this project is because they only have an inflation rate of 2.5% per year. And every time there is a transaction using the NEAR blockchain, 70% of the gas fees are burned. So, the more the NEAR blockchain is being used, the lower the yearly inflation rate is.

[00:02:24]And under very bullish periods in the crypto space, I wouldn't be surprised if this project actually becomes deflationary. So, the reason I say that this is incredibly bullish is because a lot of other layer one blockchains, like Sui for example, have really bad tokenomics and high inflation rates. So, those coins need to outperform their inflation rate in order for you to be profitable. But thankfully, with NEAR Protocol in particular, that is not a concern. All right. So, now let's talk about why this recent rally has taken place for this coin. Well, guys, we had four very bullish pieces of news happen over the past couple of days. And I'm going to go in order of when they happened. So, on May 7th, NEAR Protocol decided to update their quantum security roadmap. And they have announced a goal to deploy FIPS 204 post-quantum signatures on their testnet. And that will hopefully be done by the end of quarter two of this year. As it currently stands, it's estimated that quantum threats will become a very real thing towards the end of this decade.

[00:03:26]So, the fact that NEAR Protocol is getting ahead of the game and making these updates now is undoubtedly a bullish catalyst for the mid to long term. The next thing that I wanted to discuss is on May 9th, NEAR has launched an AI agent and GPU marketplace, which in my opinion is incredibly bullish for their current narrative. As I mentioned earlier, NEAR Protocol is positioning itself as an AI native blockchain. And this is undoubtedly helping them further their narrative and become one of the most dominant AI-related coins in the entire crypto space. All right, and then just yesterday, NEAR intense now supports single transaction swaps into private Zcash across 30 different chains, and those of course are including Ethereum and Solana. This is yet another bullish move by NEAR protocol because as most of you know, Zcash has been basically the hottest altcoin in the entire crypto space. And in the last couple of weeks, it has regained a lot of traction as we went from $324 to nearly 600 per coin. Zcash is a privacy-focused layer-one blockchain, and privacy has been basically the second most hyped-up narrative in the crypto space alongside AI. So, the fact that NEAR is continuing to build in the privacy sector is yet another bullish catalyst for this project, and it will likely bring a lot of hype to the NEAR blockchain. All right, and then last but certainly not least, earlier today we had BitMEX co-founder Arthur Hayes explicitly named NEAR as a top altcoin pick for his family office. If you guys are unfamiliar with Arthur, he is a very well-known figure in the crypto space.

[00:05:06]So, people do take his advice very seriously. The more influential people that we have talking positively about NEAR will definitely increase the likelihood that more people will FOMO into this project. And right now is the right time to be FOMOing. Of course, that is not financial advice, but although we have had this pretty solid rally over the past week, when you zoom out on the charts, you can see that we are still significantly lower than where we were sitting in late 2025.

[00:05:34]And I do fully expect this coin to get well above our local high of $3 back then, and even surpass the highs that we hit in late 2024 at $7.50.

[00:05:46]I think a realistic target for NEAR going into the next crypto bull run is somewhere between a $10 billion market cap to as high as a $30 billion market cap. And as it currently stands, we are sitting at a $2.1 billion market cap.

[00:06:00]So, if you are accumulating at today's levels and those price targets end up getting hit, you're looking at anywhere between a 5 to 15x on your investment.

[00:06:10]And honestly, who knows? We've seen strong layer one blockchains in the past get to nearly a $100 billion market cap, if not significantly higher. So, the sky is truly the limit for this project. And if you guys are subscribed to my channel, which I highly recommend, of course, I will keep you updated with when I start to take profits on these coins, because selling on the way up is so much easier than trying to perfectly time the top. All right, guys. So, now let's briefly shift our attention to the overall crypto and macro economy, because there was a very significant piece of data that was released earlier today. And that is, of course, the CPI inflation rate. And unfortunately, as I personally expected, this did come in hotter than anticipated, and our inflation for April was at 3.8%.

[00:06:57]And this has come up quite a bit. As you can see, last month we were sitting at a 3.2% and last year at this time we were sitting at a 2.8%. Now, this is, of course, concerning, and I do believe that the fact that inflation is going up is the strongest bear scenario that I can think of in this current market. But the good news is, though, is Jerome Powell is no longer the Fed chair, and hopefully Kevin Warsh can understand that this spike in inflation is likely a short-term situation. I say that, of course, because we have been dealing with this US-Iran war, and that, of course, has caused the price of oil to skyrocket. So, hopefully, if this war does end relatively soon, and it does seem like it will, inflation will return back down to the high 2% like what we saw last year, and hopefully then we can continue with cutting rates rather than considering hiking them. So, this hotter than expected CPI read has undoubtedly caused some negative price action to come into crypto. As you can see, Bitcoin this morning was sitting at about 81,300, and as soon as that news came out, we dipped all the way down to 80,000 before then recovering back up to 80,700.

[00:08:09]So, although this is a bit negative in the extreme short term, it is a positive thing to see that the bulls are fighting back. If this would have happened a couple of months ago, Bitcoin probably would have crashed down to the mid 70s because of this news. So, it is nice to see that the bulls are trying to maintain our price above 80,000, and hopefully we can hold this resistance at 80,000 like what we did earlier today.

[00:08:33]If that does end up being the case, I would not be surprised whatsoever if Bitcoin does continue this uptrend. And of course, if that does happen, that is incredibly bullish for all strong altcoins like Near Protocol. But all right, guys, that's going to do it for today's video. Thank you so much for tuning in, and I'll talk to you soon.