NEAR Price Surges 89% Toward a Major Resistance Zone

Key Takeaways NEAR gained approximately 89% in five days. The Zcash report followed the rally’s start. Intents usage does not guarantee NEAR demand. Resistance approaches between $4.75 and $4.85. The rally began before the Zcash report appeared NEAR traded near $4.35 when the attached TradingView NEAR/USD daily chart was captured on September 21. The token had gained more than 20% over 24 hours and approximately 89% from its September 16 price near $2.30. NEAR protocol RSI overbought momentum. The advance carried NEAR through $3, $3.50 and $4 with little time spent consolidating between them. Volume bars on the Coinbase chart also increased during the final stage of the move. The report linking NEAR’s performance with increased ZEC routing was published on September 21, after the price had already advanced substantially. Its publication may have added attention and momentum, but it cannot serve as the starting point for the entire five-day rally. It also does not establish what traders may have known about the activity before the report appeared. What changed was the traffic, not the integration NEAR Intents lets a user specify what they want to exchange and receive. Independent market makers known as solvers compete to complete that request across the required networks. The wallet handles those steps in the background, removing the need for the user to bridge assets manually. NEAR describes Intents as infrastructure for competing solvers to fill swaps and other cross-chain requests. The connection with Zcash, however, predates the latest rally by roughly a year. How the Zcash connection developed August 28, 2025 Zashi launched a NEAR-powered off-ramp from shielded ZEC. October 1, 2025 The wallet added an on-ramp into ZEC from assets including BTC, SOL and USDC. July 6, 2026 Vizor’s public release history referred to ZEC deposits and swap-quote handling. September 21, 2026 CoinDesk reported a sixfold weekly increase in daily ZEC volume routed through NEAR Intents. Zashi has since become Zodl, with the wallet continuing under Zcash Open Development Lab, according to Zodl’s project history. The integrations were therefore not September product launches. The new element was the reported increase in their use. The sixfold figure remains second-hand A CoinDesk report published on September 21 said daily ZEC volume through NEAR Intents had risen sixfold during the previous week, connecting the increase with wallets including Zodl and Vizor. The report did not include the starting volume, ending volume, exact comparison dates or underlying dataset. The figure should therefore remain attributed to CoinDesk rather than presented as an official measurement newly released by NEAR, Zodl or Vizor. What the report changes: It points to rising use of an existing product. What it does not prove: That ZEC swaps created enough direct demand for NEAR to explain an 89% price increase.