- NEAR price dropped 4.58% in 24 hours, printing a session low of $1.15 on April 2.
- Van de Poppe targets $1.951; Altcoin Sherpa watches the 0.618 Fibonacci at $1.165.
- Robinhood listed NEAR Protocol crypto on March 31, including New York State access.
NEAR Protocol price fell 4.58% over the past 24 hours, hitting a session low of $1.15 as selling pressure extended into the early April 2 trade. The daily range topped at $1.22, but no meaningful buyer response emerged intraday. NEAR is down 14.85% over the past month, 61.81% over the past six months, and 23.51% year-to-date, with a market cap of $188.87 million.
NEAR Price Prediction Hinges on Key Fib and Bitcoin Performance
Working off the 4-hour NEAR/USDT chart on Binance, Altcoin Sherpa placed the immediate floor at the 0.618 Fibonacci retracement at $1.165. All four EMAs are stacked above price: EMA25 at $1.190, EMA50 at $1.221, EMA100 at $1.251, EMA200 at $1.255.
Sellers control every meaningful moving average, and Sherpa’s read was conditional, saying BTC needs to hold its own for the fib level to do anything useful. Without that, it slows the bleed rather than stops it.
Zooming out to the weekly, Michaël van de Poppe identified a higher low forming on the NEAR price chart, a structure that typically signals exhaustion in a downtrend rather than continuation. He’s targeting $1.951, with the $1.410 zone flagged as the critical reclaim level.
Near Protocol price getting back above that is, in his framework, what triggers the next leg. He attached the broader thesis to an “AI Summer ’26” narrative, rooting the NEAR price prediction in ecosystem function rather than chart mechanics alone. Both analysts are watching the same asset from different timeframes, and neither is calling a bottom yet.
On the fundamental side, the setup has gotten materially more interesting in the last week. Robinhood listed NEAR coin on March 31, opening access in New York State, a regulated market previously closed to the token.
The more consequential angle, flagged by analysts, is whether Robinhood eventually runs NEAR Intents beneath its own swap infrastructure. Intents has processed over $3 billion in volume across 25-plus blockchains without manual bridging, Starknet and TRON being the most recent additions. Fee revenue from that volume feeds back into token burns, applying deflationary pressure that scales directly with usage.
NEAR Protocol coin sits 94.34% below its all-time high of $20.42, set on January 16, 2022. For NEAR price to find a sustained floor, bulls need to first reclaim $1.165, then work through four bearish EMAs, all while the broader market holds.
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