$NEAR This one is seriously exciting.

In just 15 minutes, it jumped 3 percentage points. Trading volume hit up to more than ten times the usual level. The buy-side is overwhelmingly dominant—buy/sell ratio at 1.21—this is clearly the bulls aggressively accumulating.

Most importantly, OI is moving up in sync: up 0.94%. This isn’t a fake breakout where price jumps but positions don’t; it’s fresh leverage backed by real capital entering the market. The funding rate is also running high. The contract open interest percentile is an abnormal 99.8%, ranking second in the entire pool—this level of heat is kind of over the top.

At the close, it directly broke through the upper bound of the range across nearly 20 five-minute K-lines. This kind of volume-backed breakout, along with the structure of simultaneous position increases, basically makes the short-term trend clearly bullish.

But then again, it’s getting close to its historical extreme zone—chasing is not without risk. Let’s see whether it can keep expanding volume and hold steady. Otherwise, behind these extreme numbers, big volatility could hit at any time. Be cautious and watch, or follow the trend and hold—everyone should weigh it for yourselves.