TL;DR
- NEAR Protocol surged up to 119% in 30 days on real catalysts: a spot ETF approval, an AI Cloud launch, and a $30B+ cross-chain liquidity milestone.
- A wave of new memecoin launches, including NEARLY and HOOTERS, is hitting NEAR's permissionless launchpads right now.
- Rhea Finance's chain-abstracted DEX means you can trade NEAR memecoins directly from Solana or Ethereum, no bridging required.
- Banana Gun's 88% top-of-block sniping success rate on NEAR gives you the first-mover edge before any centralized exchange catches up.
Why NEAR Is Actually Up
Before we talk memecoins, let's talk about why NEAR has everyone's attention in the first place.
1. The Bitwise NEAR ETF (September 29)
The SEC and NYSE Arca approved the first US spot NEAR ETF, ticker NRR, launched by Bitwise with a 0.75% management fee and direct NEAR spot holdings. On day one, it pulled in $35.5M in inflows; that's 0.55% of NEAR's entire circulating supply absorbed in a single 24-hour window. NEAR ran 26% in the week leading up to the launch, then tacked on another 10%+ on the day itself.
2. The AI Cloud Launch (September 10)
NEAR dropped its AI Cloud infrastructure on Intel and NVIDIA hardware, a serious enterprise compute play. The market noticed. Monthly active users hit a record 118 million, and the chart moved from $1.80 to $2.41 in one step.
3. Ondo Finance Partnership
Tokenized US stocks like Tesla, Nvidia, Apple, and more, are now tradeable on NEAR through near.com. Eligible users can access these assets from over 30 networks in a single account, powered by NEAR's crosschain account model. Institutional-grade assets on a memecoin friendly chain is a combination that tends to attract serious capital.
4. NEAR Intents: $30B+ Cumulative Volume
NEAR's cross-chain liquidity layer has now processed more than $30 billion in cumulative volume across 30+ chains, with confidential perpetuals expanding across multiple markets. This is the plumbing that lets memecoins actually flow between chains.
Net result: NEAR up 119% in 30 days, breaking a downtrend it had been stuck under since July. Retail capital follows momentum. Memecoins follow retail capital. You know the drill.
What's Actually Launching Right Now
NEARLY
Market cap: ~$3.7M | Price: $0.00381 | Supply: 953M circulating
NEARLY is the native token of nearly.trade, an AI-powered token launchpad on NEAR Protocol. It listed on MEXC's Meme+ Trading Zone on September 30 at 05:35 UTC. Here's what makes the model interesting: every token launched on nearly.trade deploys directly into a locked Rhea Finance liquidity pool (1% fee tier), with the liquidity position locked in a contract with no access key. No bonding curve migration risk. No rug window. The platform also runs a built-in hourly buyback-and-burn mechanism on NEARLY itself.
HOOTERS
1B supply, launched September 30 on launchpad.justhoot.near. No major CEX listing yet; all liquidity currently sitting on Rhea Finance. Very early stage.
Shitzu
Market cap: ~$760K–$1.1M | Price: $0.0024–$0.0037 | Supply: 306M circulating
SHITZU is what happens when an April Fool's Day prank refuses to die gracefully. It's 100% community run, has expanded into Shitzu Apes NFTs and a community incubator, and trades primarily on Rhea Finance. The OG NEAR memecoin, for those who like a bit of provenance with their degen plays.
Where to Find NEAR Tokens (Before Everyone Else Does)
The fastest way to scout new NEAR token launches is directly on NearBlocks, NEAR's native block explorer. Sort by on-chain market cap, descending, and you get a live feed of what's actually moving. No Twitter hype filter. No KOL delay.
The Infrastructure Layer: Rhea Finance
Every NEAR memecoin conversation leads back to Rhea Finance, the chain-abstracted DEX anchoring this ecosystem.
- 24-hour volume: $13.7M
- 30-day volume: $1.294B
- TVL: $266M+
The critical feature: Rhea Finance has opened NEAR meme coin trading to users on any chain without requiring bridges or a NEAR wallet. The chain abstraction runs through NEAR Intents under the hood. You stay on Solana or Ethereum. The swap happens. Done.
That's not a small thing. That's the difference between a memecoin ecosystem that's accessible to 100 people versus one that's accessible to every degen on every chain simultaneously.
What Banana Gun Gives You
Banana Gun supports NEAR Protocol natively. And on a chain where new memecoins are launching with $3.7M market caps, being first in matters enormously.
Here's what you're working with:
MEV-Resistant Execution: Gas-efficient swaps with no front-running risk on NEAR's Intents infrastructure. You're not getting sandwiched.
Copy Trading: Mirror successful NEAR smart money wallets as the ecosystem matures. The data gets richer every week.
Limit Orders + TP/SL: Set your exit and let the bot handle it while you're doing something else with your life (sleeping, presumably).
Unified Multi-Chain Interface: One Telegram bot. Solana, Ethereum, Base, BSC, Sonic, AND NEAR. No re-learning, no switching, no friction.
With 215k+ users and $3B+ lifetime trading volume, Banana Gun is the only bot with native NEAR support that gives you this kind of infrastructure. NEARLY launched at a $3.7M market cap. If you'd sniped on launch and hit even a modest 3x before it touched a major CEX, you'd understand why the 88% figure matters.
