Bitwise CIO says NEAR’s investment case goes beyond its AI ambitions
NEAR Intents passed $30 billion in cumulative volume, and the surrounding coverage places that milestone alongside rising fee totals and a Bitwise view that NEAR already has a business model beyond its AI plans. The same set of details also ties the network to activity across dozens of blockchains and to a forecast of roughly $45 million in fees this year, with some revenue returned through buybacks.
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For users and market watchers, the immediate takeaway is that NEAR is being framed as more than an AI story today. The discussion now centers on Intents activity that has already crossed $30 billion and on fee generation that has been described in the tens of millions, which is what observers notice first this week.
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Where this sits in the NEAR Protocol series
| When | What happened | Figure |
|---|---|---|
| 5 days ago | NEAR a 5.96 $ high | today it sits -14.9 % from there |
| 8 days ago | NEAR a 4.41 $ low | today it sits +15.0 % from there |
From what we have stored, starting 22 days ago.