$NEAR In these 15 minutes, there’s something to it.

Leverage was driven straight up to 7.25x, Z-score at 3.75, and the price surged 2.95% while OI rose in sync. This doesn’t look like a pure short squeeze. OI over 1h is +1.61%, and the nominal value is up by 14.65M—more like fresh leveraged long positions rushing in.

On the liquidation-merchant side, there’s 351K at 5m, with the buying direction more concentrated. The anomaly percentile across the board reached 98.6%; overall pool rank is #3, nominal change is #2, and depth is also confirmed—trading volume is above normal, price has probed the upper bound of the recent range, and pressure is concentrated in Binance futures.

Aggressive trading differs by 7.5%, with buy/sell ratio at 1.16—bullish, but not wildly so. 24h turnover is 971.63M, and the pool is deep enough.

With OI and price moving in the same direction, and both near their own historical extreme ranges, under this kind of structure I’d keep a close eye on whether it can build volume and hold. If it can’t hold, then it’s likely the crowded-long backlash.