NEAR News: Why NEAR Price Fell Despite Quantum-Safe UpgradeNEAR Protocol dropped to $1.60 today, down 3.04% over the past 24 hours, even as this NEAR Protocol news cycle brought a major update explaining how the network plans to secure multi-chain assets against future quantum computing threats. That gap between a genuinely significant technical announcement and a falling price is worth digging into.NEAR Confirms Its Post-Quantum Cryptography ExpansionNEAR posted today that it's preparing multi-chain assets for a post-quantum future, with co-founder Illia Polosukhin explaining how the network plans to get there. Source: Official NEAR X post Through a feature called Chain Signatures, assets like Bitcoin, Ethereum, Solana, and stablecoins held via NEAR Intents can be secured with post-quantum cryptography and kept confidential at the same time, with protocol upgrades handling the transition automatically. The announcement builds directly on the NEAR mainnet upgrade, which went live on July 20, 2026, and added quantum-safe signing through the NIST-approved FIPS-204 (ML-DSA) scheme.Why NEAR Is Falling Despite the NewsLive data from CoinMarketCap shows $NEAR at $1.60, down 3.04% over the past 24 hours,...
