NEAR Takes a 5.7% Nosedive as CoinDesk 20 Index Stumbles—Another Day in Crypto Wonderland
Crypto’s ’blue-chip’ index catches a bearish wave—because what’s volatility if not a feature, not a bug?
NEAR Protocol leads the losers’ parade with a 5.7% haircut, proving once again that even layer-1 darling status won’t save you from market gravity. Meanwhile, the CoinDesk 20 slips further from Wednesday’s levels, because apparently ’decentralized’ also applies to price trajectories.
Bonus cynicism: Traders clinging to ’fundamentals’ might as well be reading tea leaves—this is crypto, where the only technical analysis that matters is whether Elon Musk tweeted a meme recently.

Leaders: BTC (-0.9%) and LTC (-1.8%).
Laggards: NEAR (-5.7%) and POL (-5.6%).
The CoinDesk 20 is a broad-based index traded on multiple platforms in several regions globally.