{"id":29557,"date":"2026-05-25T17:37:33","date_gmt":"2026-05-25T17:37:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bitunikey.com\/news\/near-50-weekly-rally-crowns-altcoin-enters-holy-trinity-trade\/"},"modified":"2026-05-25T17:37:44","modified_gmt":"2026-05-25T17:37:44","slug":"near-50-weekly-rally-crowns-altcoin-enters-holy-trinity-trade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bitunikey.com\/news\/near-50-weekly-rally-crowns-altcoin-enters-holy-trinity-trade\/","title":{"rendered":"NEAR 50% weekly rally crowns altcoin enters \u2018holy trinity\u2019 trade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div class=\"post-detail__content blocks\">\n<p>NEAR Protocol surged about 50% this week to roughly $2.34, outpacing most large cap tokens as traders rotated into Arthur Hayes\u2019s \u201choly trinity\u201d of NEAR, HYPE and ZEC.<\/p>\n<div id=\"cn-block-summary-block_0ce43d4654ca6e11ab5bc6f330c202b2\" class=\"cn-block-summary\">\n<div class=\"cn-block-summary__nav tabs\">\n        <span class=\"tabs__item is-selected\">Summary<\/span>\n    <\/div>\n<div class=\"cn-block-summary__content\">\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>NEAR (NEAR) jumped about 50% in seven days, hitting a six month high near $2.34 as capital rotated into select altcoins.<\/li>\n<li>CoinMarketCap shows NEAR trading around $2.40 with roughly $689 million in daily volume and a multi billion dollar market cap.<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/coinmarketcap.com\/currencies\/near-protocol\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><\/a><\/li>\n<li>Arthur Hayes called NEAR, Hyperliquid and Zcash the \u201choly trinity of altcoins,\u201d and all three outperformed Bitcoin this week.<\/li>\n<\/ul><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><!-- .cn-block-summary --><\/p>\n<p>NEAR Protocol has become one of the clearest large cap momentum trades after its price climbed roughly 50 percent in a week to hit a six month high around $2.34, even as the broader market barely moved.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">near intents generated 33M+ in fees in less than a year<\/p>\n<p>pmf? <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/lGxuhSvrs1\">pic.twitter.com\/lGxuhSvrs1<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 nairolf (@0xNairolf) <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/0xNairolf\/status\/2058819607893315883?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">May 25, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>CoinMarketCap lists the live\u00a0NEAR Protocol\u00a0price at about $2.40, with 24 hour trading volume above $689 million and a market capitalization in the low single digit billions, placing it around the top 30 crypto assets by size.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Why is NEAR outperforming other large cap altcoins<\/h2>\n<p>According to\u00a0<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/changelly.com\/blog\/near-protocol-near-price-prediction\/\">Changelly<\/a>, NEAR is currently priced near $2.38 with an estimated market cap of roughly $3.08 billion and circulating supply of about 1.3 billion tokens, after logging around 14.4 percent volatility over the past month.<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/changelly.com\/blog\/near-protocol-near-price-prediction\/\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Fresh data from CoinMarketCap\u2019s AI driven\u00a0<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/coinmarketcap.com\/cmc-ai\/near-protocol\/price-analysis\/\">price analysis<\/a>\u00a0tool noted that NEAR recently jumped 13.26 percent in 24 hours to about $2.47, massively outperforming a wider market that edged up just over 1 percent during the same window.<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/coinmarketcap.com\/cmc-ai\/near-protocol\/price-analysis\/\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>MEXC framed the move more starkly, writing in a recent\u00a0<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mexc.com\/news\/1109049\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">market note<\/a>\u00a0that \u201cthanks to a 25.78% price increase, NEAR Protocol was the biggest gainer of the day among the top 200 cryptocurrencies by market cap\u201d as it traded around $2.20.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">&gt; Near unlocked ZEC onchain with billions.<\/p>\n<p>&gt; Near powered VVV with the most advanced private &amp; *verifiable* AI inference tech in production.<\/p>\n<p>&gt; Near shipped Confidential Intents. Live for 35+ blockchains. First time ever this is achieved. 42% rate of confidentiality rate in 1\u2026 <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/kB1WDKfd2H\">https:\/\/t.co\/kB1WDKfd2H<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Res (@resdegen) <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/resdegen\/status\/2058542295457132689?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">May 24, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>Another MEXC report added that NEAR\u2019s price \u201csurged 50% in seven days, hitting six month highs at $2.34\u201d and gaining about 34 percent in one day alone, highlighting the speed with which traders have piled into the token.<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mexc.com\/news\/1109049\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>That acceleration came as the total crypto market cap slipped about 0.42 percent to $2.58 trillion and roughly 78 percent of listed coins lost value on the day, suggesting NEAR\u2019s rally is a focused rotation rather than a rising tide.<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mexc.com\/news\/1107235\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In earlier coverage on\u00a0crypto market leadership, NEAR had already begun to appear alongside other high conviction trades that pulled in liquidity while the rest of the market chopped sideways.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"how-does-near-fit-into-arthur-hayess-holy-trinity\">How does NEAR fit into Arthur Hayes\u2019s \u201choly trinity\u201d narrative<\/h2>\n<p>The renewed interest in NEAR is tightly bound to a narrative from BitMEX co founder Arthur Hayes, who recently called NEAR, Hyperliquid and Zcash \u201cthe holy trinity of altcoins\u201d in a comment widely circulated on\u00a0<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/CoinMarketCap\/posts\/latest-arthur-hayes-called-near-hype-and-zcash-the-holy-trinity-of-altcoins\/1405472\">social media<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In an article summarizing his thesis, Stocktwits reported that \u201cArthur Hayes\u2019 \u2018Holy Trinity\u2019 Outperforms Bitcoin \u2013 HYPE\u2019s Price Hits All-Time High, While ZEC, NEAR Surge To 6-Month Peaks This Week,\u201d underscoring that all three tokens hit notable milestones at roughly the same time.<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/stocktwits.com\/news-articles\/markets\/cryptocurrency\/arthur-hayes-calls-hype-zec-near-crypto-holy-trinity-after-massive-rally\/cZgRX8yReot\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Hyperliquid, which is tracked on CoinMarketCap as\u00a0HYPE, has posted its own aggressive move to an all time high this month, while privacy focused\u00a0Zcash\u00a0has rallied to multi month highs on the back of what one\u00a0crypto.news report\u00a0described as a \u201cprivacy rotation\u201d and fresh ecosystem funding.<\/p>\n<p>The narrative has spilled over into trading commentary on X as well, with market watchers pointing out that NEAR, HYPE and ZEC have all logged sharper percentage gains than\u00a0Bitcoin\u00a0in recent sessions, even as the benchmark asset remains near the center of attention.<\/p>\n<p>    <!-- .cn-block-related-link --><\/p>\n<p>One MEXC dispatch explicitly linked the three assets, noting that NEAR\u2019s 50 percent weekly surge coincided with strong performance in HYPE and ZEC and concluding that NEAR \u201cwas the biggest gainer of the day among the top 200 cryptocurrencies by market cap.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>For NEAR specifically, the backdrop is an evolving story around the protocol\u2019s effort to brand itself as \u201cthe blockchain for AI,\u201d with CoinMarketCap describing it as \u201ca high performance, AI native platform built to power the next generation of decentralized applications and intelligent agents\u201d in its\u00a0<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/coinmarketcap.com\/currencies\/near-protocol\/\">project overview<\/a>.<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/coinmarketcap.com\/currencies\/near-protocol\/\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The token\u2019s recent outperformance follows a long stretch of underperformance from its 2021 peak, but current data from\u00a0<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/coincodex.com\/crypto\/near-protocol\/price-prediction\/\">CoinCodex<\/a>\u00a0suggests models still see NEAR trading near $2.30 at year end 2026, only slightly below current levels, which implies the market is now trying to decide whether this latest burst is a new secular leg higher or just another sharp countertrend move.<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/coincodex.com\/crypto\/near-protocol\/price-prediction\/\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In earlier\u00a0analysis on altcoin cycles, NEAR had already been flagged as one of the top gaining assets during a broader market rebound, reinforcing the idea that this week\u2019s rally is part of a sustained period of relative strength rather than an isolated spike.<\/p>\n<p>    <!-- .cn-block-related-link --><\/p><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEAR Protocol surged about 50% this week to roughly $2.34, outpacing most large cap tokens as traders rotated into Arthur Hayes\u2019s \u201choly trinity\u201d of NEAR, HYPE and ZEC. Summary NEAR&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":29558,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29557","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cryptocurrency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bitunikey.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29557","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bitunikey.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bitunikey.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitunikey.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitunikey.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29557"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bitunikey.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29557\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29559,"href":"https:\/\/bitunikey.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29557\/revisions\/29559"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitunikey.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29558"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bitunikey.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitunikey.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitunikey.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}